Author: Adventures

note: this is Abby on Megan’s profile … still lost my password 🙂   This week in Moshi has really flown by, I can’t believe that our time here is almost over…. and that a week from today we’ll be leaving East Africa for America. As I was thinking about this the other day, I had my head in my lap and was looking at my (mosquito-bitten) feet. God started to help me think back on all the places He’s taken these feet this summer. Playing tag with kids in Kwapa (the bush) Uganda, to the busy streets of Tororo, up hills and on top of rocks to watch the...

Two or three days ago we were at an orphanage just lovin’ on some kids. There was one girl in particular, Jenifer, who never said a word but just wanted to be held. I was sitting on these tiny, wooden chairs, squished between two tables, and this girl would not leave my lap for anything. I tried to get her to smile, but she wouldn’t. Finally, I just started praying that she would just fall asleep. God kept giving me images of girls who have been raped and sexually abused, and I knew there was a really good possibility this 7 year old had experienced that. So I prayed that she...

  These past few weeks in Moshi, Tanzania, God has been taking me through so many incredible life lessons. One of the biggest ways He’s been teaching me is through an interactive journal I have called Qualities of a Spiritual Warrior by Graham Cooke. A lot of what I am about to share is directly from Cooke’s book, and I hope the story of my encounter with this lesson will bless and encourage you. The most recent lesson I’ve been going through with the Lord during my time at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro is the concept of defeating fear in our lives. Fear can surface in...

If I’m being completely honest, the thought of blogging everything that has been happening on this trip is really overwhelming. How can I articulate what it was like to live with the Maasai? How can I communicate the miracles I’ve seen? How the Holy Spirit has led this team? But if there’s one theme that has presented itself over and over again, it is the faithfulness of our Father. I’m gonna go ahead and just throw a couple instances out there and you can see for yourself how awesome God’s power is… We were going door to door out in the Kenyan bush (it...

“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the POWER OF GOD….For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength….God chose the FOOLISH things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the WEAK things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the LOWLY things of this world and the DESPISED things-and the things that ARE NOT-to nullify the things that are.” 1 Corinthians 1:18,15,27-28    I do not need to be afraid. I do...