Let’s just be honest here for a moment, people.   I love Africa.  If I didn’t, you would know. But let’s be honest…. Africa smells a lot, in a lot of places.  For example, the squatty.  I’m sorry, but no matter where you go a squatty is a squatty, and they’ve got a little bit of stink.   Another fun fact about Africa: Apparently, the most popular way to dispose of trash is to burn it.  And let’s just say there’s a reason that Febreze or Glade haven’t bottled that scent yet.  Also, there’s a lot...

 What is happening?! God. That is the answer. God is happening.          This last week has been a crazy one. That is for sure. But a good kind of crazy.      We left Uganda in a bitter sweet fashion. We were all sad to leave the beautiful country and the beautiful people but also completely ready for a change of pace. So when we finally got to Kenya, we were a little excited, to say the least. It was in the middle of the night when we got here so we couldn’t see much of Kenya, but I think it’s safe to say we all knew we...

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...

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...

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...

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...