Author: Adventures

Fill’ er Up

As most of you know, before I can start my fantastic adventure to Africa, I had to first come to training camp in Georgia. I’m not sure why, but I just kind of thought that it would be one of those typical get to know your teammates and listen to some lectures kind of thing. Basically, just a few more boring days in the states standing between me and Africa. Well, that was a bit of a fail! I didn’t even realize that perhaps I needed to learn a little something before I could jump right into such a huge endeavor One of our speakers taught about our need to surrender some things...

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I AM NEW

What do you think of when you think of the word surrender? – To give up? – To let go of everything? – To make a complete 180 and turn around from where you were. Those are all great answers and maybe you have more or just your own wotch is fine. These four days have been the most carzy, amazing, LIFE CHANGING four days of my life.  These days have really made me think and mde my heart really broken for what God has called me to do. I did not expect traning camp to be this intsense and trul amazing. My first thought of traing camp was it was going to be a class room...

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Matumaini

Today is our last full day at training camp.  It’s hard to believe we’ve only been here for three days!  The biggest highlight thus far has been the way our team has grown with one another.  We’ve spent some time hearing each other’s stories and sharing about who we were before we came.  I have already been challenged on this trip, and we haven’t even left the country yet.  I continue to remind myself each morning that my identity is found in Christ and nowhere else.  Throughout the day I have been taking myself to the cross of our...

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Meeting Simba

Six months ago, I decided I was going to set a side about a year of my life to go out into the world, and try and do something different no one around had done. That entailed signing up for two trips, the first being my excursion into the Central American country of Guatemala, and the second being the trip of a lifetime to Africa. 5 months later, here I sit, already completed with the first portion, and set with numerous amounts of lessons that I learned, hopefully readily available to apply in Africa. I’m 19. I wanted to see things that I had never had the chance to see otherwise,...

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My Hands are Tied

 Its only been three days since I arrived in Atlanta and already my world has been rocked. You see, I’m not exactly “new” to the ideas of living in community or missions or AIM, and yet, I have SO much more to learn.              I’ve always thought of myself as averagely useful. I don’t mind hard work and I genuinely like to make people happy through acts of service. That’s always been the way I show the love of Christ, the way I could comfortably minister to those around...

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Vision of Heaven

So this is our last day at training camp before we head out for our adventure in Africa. And I thought I’d share something I experienced yesterday during worship. But before I share that I’ll share a little about my life. My grandma is currently very sick and has been cycling through hospital visits for the past year. My grandma is very sick and it has been hard for me to follow God’s will and go to Africa despite this. My grandma could very well die while I’m in Africa, or even before I get there. But before I went to training camp she told me “Follow...

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