Author: Adventures

At this time my team and I are safely in Rwanda and getting settled into our new home and ministry.  However, I felt like I wanted to share with you all one more blog about what God taught me during our last few days in Uganda.      When I thought about coming to Africa this summer I knew that God would teach me so much.  One of the main things I was expecting to learn was how thankful I would be for America after being out of my comfort zone for 2 months.  After spending a month and a half here, I have experienced the appreciation for home and comfort, but I...

I love to surprise people. I love keeping secrets in the name of surprises! I love to show people how much I love them by doing their laundry un-expectantly, baking them cookies at random, or even planning surprise scavenger hunts for them!   Here in Uganda we live in a FABULOUS house with our housekeeper, Seth. He is a 19 year old knock out! He helps us do EVERYTHING! (If anyone from the last Uganda team is reading this- thanks for teaching him how to make cookie dough! We are definitely going to get fat from all of the treats he’s helping us make! It’s way better than the...

Our team arrived in Rukungiri, Uganda about a week and a half ago. It has been awesome. We moved from tents to beds, from fetching water from a stream 20 minutes away to having showers and running water, and from being 3 and a half hours away from a small city to 3 minutes from a large town. Our ministry here is varied. Each morning we go to an all boys school to lead a devotion. Then we go to a clinic across town to pray for people there and help in any way we can. After that some of our team go teach at an elementary school, and others go back to the boys school to hang out and play...