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Heaven Will Be Clean…

June 27, 2012
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One of my greatest struggles in this life, and especially as a believer in Christ, is that I have a deep desire for things to be “clean.” I want everything to come in a neat package, issues resolved, ready to just be enjoyed. This is most evident in me when I examine my own life…I have told many of my friends I just want any issues I have to be completely resolved, to be done. I don’t enjoy the process of fixing. I’d just like to skip ahead to the resolution. Here I would love to simply encounter someone hungry and make sure that they are always well...

You’re Raising Me

June 27, 2012
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Expeditions 1

Sometimes, God does so many incredible things in you and through you that all you can do is drop to your knees in humble adoration. Sometimes, God works in you so deep that it’s all you can do to accept his teaching and movements in your heart. The next two weeks in Kenya are going to be falling alot into the latter category for me. In Uganda, I was nearly overwhelmed by the leaps and bounds God was growing me. And I was totally overwhelmed by some of the things God did with me. I was challenged, to be sure, in Uganda, but I was mostly being challenged by my outward...

Yesu ni Bwana

June 27, 2012
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It means “Jesus is Lord”, it might not be correct grammar but that’s what the words mean. Even when things don’t go as expected and we get disappointed, Yesu ni Bwana. Coming to Kenya, many of us were expecting and hoping to be out in the middle of a random tribe where we camped in tents and cooked over a fire and had to go miles away to find any kind of western culture. However, when we got off the bus at 2 in the morning and walked down this dirt road, we walked into a house that has couches, bunk beds, electricity, and running water. I was ticked. I wanted to be...

We are All the Same

June 27, 2012
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I am finally able to write a blog!! I was hoping to write one last week before we left Uganda, but the internet was not cooperating. But here I am, sitting in a stuffy internet cafe in Bungoma, Kenya. What a blessing to be in this place. Some highlights from my time in Uganda: 1. Drinking a Coke under the twinkling stars (they literally twinkle here, it’s incredible) with these amazing people God has placed in my life. 2. Riding four on the small boda boda (motorized bike) to and from town, exploring the market. 3. Being alone before the...

Success…

June 27, 2012
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Well my co-leader Nikki and I had quite an interesting morning yesterday and I thought…why not share it with all of you. So there we were leaving the school at which we’d just dropped off the team to do ministry for the afternoon. Our plan was simple: 1. Go to town 2. Go to the store and find water (we ran out the evening before and our contacts forgot to mention that it was our job to get it) 3. Get the giant jugs of water back to out house 4. Fill 13 water bottles 5. Deliver them to the team Once we reached the main road we hopped on the back of a pichi-pichi...

Red Rover Red Rover

June 27, 2012
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There’s a lot of serious moments in mission work, moments where you share the truth in dark places, moments when you your hardest and moments where you are still and seek God’s face, but in between those moments God shares his joy and love in ways that are just as real and just as important. Some of those have been incredibly funny so I thought I’d share: 1. A sermon about temptation can immediately become a Sex-Ed course, even in the middle of Sunday morning church. I won’t go into too much detail, but this has happened twice. Once on Fathers day and once at...

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