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Travel the road.

January 28, 2012
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Adventure

Hey family and friends! I’m so excited to share my stories when I get home! For now I just want to say that I’m settling in. This first week or so was really a struggle for me. I began t question if I made the right choice in coming here. I was really missing home and our western comforts. But then, on our last day of ministry in the village of Cataboy, we spent two hours at a local villagers home doing a prolonged version of the door to door ministry we’d been doing all week. I felt like we really connected with the people we were talking to! Later that day we had a...

Travel Days

January 27, 2012
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Adventure

Our total travel time: 33.5 hours The Expeditions team left training camp on Tuesday the 17th at 6:00 am and flew to Amsterdam and then from there to Entebbe, Uganda. When we got there we stayed in Kampala at a hostel where we camped outside for the night. Once we had arrived at the hostel we found out that we were going rafting on the Nile River in the morning, probably one of the best surprises of my life!! After we finished rafting we then headed to another hostel in Jinja for night and then packed up the next day and headed for our ministry location in Tororo. While...

I’m Finally Home.

January 27, 2012
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Adventure

Over the course of the last 14 months my greatest desire was to return to Africa. I’ve had to stop, blink a couple times, and then take a deep breath numerous times this past week. I’m back. It’s like returning after a super long vacation. When we stepped off the plane in Entebbe the humidity hit my face like a rocket. It was then I realized I was home. It’s the strangest feeling. Yet, I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. We had quite the adventure getting to Tororo where we would be for the next month or so. It included hostels, white water...

Hard to Believe

January 27, 2012
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Expedition 3

I am in Uganda, hard to believe right? Yep it is. I’ve only been away from Pa for 2 weeks, but it feels like so much longer. It already feels like I have been gone for months! It still hasn’t really hit that I am going to be in Africa for 4 months. It sounds crazy. Okay it doesn’t just sound crazy, it is crazy! It took a lot to get here, but I am so thankful for this opportunity of a lifetime. I have seen God a lot already in my team and the people we have met so far. God has hand-picked my team and I am so excited to get to know them even more over the next 4...

My Stolen Heart

January 27, 2012
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Adventures Staff

My heart has already been stolen. It happened the first day we arrived at our ministry location here in Tororo, Uganda. His name is Onibu and he is five years old. He was the very first child I talked to here. We were sitting in Deliverance Church (the church we are partnering here with in Tororo), and we were playing a silly game which involved me needing to hug a stranger. What better stranger to hug than an adorable little Ugandan child? And so I found Onibu. He doesn’t speak much English but he became attached to me very quickly, soon not wanting to leave my side or talk to...

Team 3 update!

January 25, 2012
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Expedition 3

Hi everyone! I’m Lizzie, one of the co-leaders of Team 3! I just wanted to write a quick blog letting everyone know what we have been up to! We arrived in Tororo on Friday afternoon and had Friday evening and Saturday as a day of much needed rest. Then, Sunday we attended church and started our ministry off with a trip to the hospital to pray over and speak life into the patients and families there. Monday, Tuesday and then today, Wednesday, we have done house to house evangelism and have seen many people come to know the Lord as their personal Savior! ...

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