Author: Adventures

This lifetime is full of relationships and opportunities for relationships… no matter how long or short they may be. I’ve been thinking about how many people I meet or come in contact with over my life… all the conversations, smiles, waves, or glances from perfect strangers, the relationships with my African hosts for the weeks of ministry, the relationships I have with the people on my team, and the past and current relationships with my friends, family, classmates, and coworkers back at home. Through my 21 years (well, 21 years on Tuesday… yay!! ) I have seen how...

Hello everyone! Keith, Cole, Cherise, Abby, Lauren, Megan, Lindsay and I are now in Moshi, Tanzania directly at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. It is absolutely beautiful here. Our team spent about 4 days in Nairobi, Kenya last week praying to God asking Him where in Tanzania He wanted to send our team. Since we had absolutely no plans, locations, or ministry contacts set up for our time in this country, we were very excited to hear God put the town of Moshi on our hearts, and then go so far as to set us up with a loving missionary family based out of Bethel Church in Redding, California to...

 Hello from Nairobi! My team and I have been back in Nairobi for a few days after 11 days with the Maasai in Ngabolo, Kenya. I can’t help but be blown away by how much faith the believers have in Ngabolo. Their church services are 5-15 people in a small room, they have no instruments, and they  have risked being persecuted and isolated because of their love for Christ. Yet they press on boldly. It makes me think of the 2-hour church services we complain about driving to, or too “busy” we are for a Wednesday night Bible study. One of the women, Mary, told me that...

ekkkk I’m supper excited to blog right now 😀 so I just spent about 2 week with the Maasai tribe- like WHAT?!?!?! I still don’t think that sentence has fully digested through my brain yet. it has been a wonderful two weeks filled with singing and tribal dancing by the fire and under the stars that seem to reproduce and multiply every second. My innocence has REBIRTHED with these wonderful people. Discovering entertainment in the simple things: like songs by a campfire, jumping contests, beading necklaces and sowing skirts, walking by the distant rivers, milking camels, and...

“Welcome William, you are free here”! The time we spent in the Maasai land taught me a lot about freedom… freedom from entitlement. “You are entitled to your own opinion”. How often have we heard that before? Turns out, that isn’t true when you’re following Jesus. He says that if we want to find our life (our life in eternity with Him), we have to lose it (our life here on earth). That means die to ourselves, our desires, our wants, and our needs. The Father knows what we need, and promises to provide for us. But how often do we allow Him to do...