Adventures – Page 13

12 Americans. 1 bathroom. You do the math.

July 16, 2013
Adventures
Expeditions 1

I apologize in advance for the lengthiness of this blog, but summing up 11 people into 2 pages was a challenge. Enjoy! If someone would have told me 2 months ago I would be comfortable enough to share with 11 strangers just how well, or how not so well, my colon was working on a day-to-day basis, I would have laughed at such ridiculousness. But oh how wrong I would have been. After spending every waking…and sleeping moment with people for almost two months, your business becomes just as much their business. No I’m not in a sorority… So apparently before I...

Eternal Perspective

July 16, 2013
Adventures
Expeditions 1

Eternal Perspective Now that your vision has been broadened I want it to be extended. Though I don't like assigning a single word to an experience, freedom has been a theme on this trip. In each place we stay our hosts say to us "be free." What does this mean, how are we to be free? In Africa this is what freedom looks like to me. It means not having to take chai tea when it is offered. It means not having to eat the foot tall pile of rice on your plate. It means being able to pray for sick people and undesirables. Not drinking some tea might not seem like a big deal to you,...

Ive Got the Joy Joy Joy Down In My Where?

July 16, 2013
Adventures
Expeditions 1

There we were sitting among 200 Africans in a tiny shop that barely fits 50 people, in the capital of Rwanda, Kigali, the sun was so hot I was sweating so much, flies landing on me every second, I was so close to the person next to me, I could feel the heat radiating from their body, and the ringing in the ear from Pastor Vanessia screaming in the microphone a language none of us could understand, but in that moment I could feel God’s presence. But I almost missed it. I almost let God walk right past me. That’s because I was focused on my own selfish desires, my...

Monthiversary!!!

July 16, 2013
Adventures
Expeditions 1

So July 1st was the one month anniversary for my team here in Africa. So far we have been in Musul, Kenya living in our tents, out in the bush without running water or electricity, doing house to house evangelism. Now we are in Rukungiri, Uganda working with an all boys school and a health clinic here in town. We hang out with the boys and disciple them. Then at the clinic we pray for patients and help with upkeep of the different wards. These past 4 weeks have been absolutely amazing. Coming into this trip I knew the Lord was leading me in into a...

Broader Horizons

July 15, 2013
Adventures
Adventure

Most people in the U.S. have heard the phrase "broadening horizons." In the context I have heard it this often means exploring one's sexuality or experimenting with drugs or alcohol. That is not what that phrase should stand for, and now I want to encourage you to broaden your horizons. People like to be comfortable, they like to experience things that they already know, people like order and structure. This can mean going to church each Sunday and singing songs they know, knowing the correct handshake with which to greet someone, or even eating food that they know they...

A MZUNGU named Bethany

July 14, 2013
Adventures
Adventure

On the first day we arrived in Uganda we were blessed to meet up with a past world race participant named Bethany. She went on the world race and then decided it was her calling to move back to Mukono, Uganda with a friend to build a library and extra classrooms at Champions Primary School. She has been working to raise money and is only $8000 away from being able to be fully funded. Praise God! When I first meet her I was unsure how to react because she was the first mzungu (white person) I had seen a while. Being able to have a normal conversation without a language barrier or heavy...

Author: Adventures