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...

HOLOTYA!   Cheesy, but that means hello in Ugandan… the spelling is questionable :/   These past 10 days have been one never-ending rollercoaster. From arriving at the Entebbe Airport to sitting at an outdated computer in an internet cafe in Tororo, Uganda-I hate to say it, but its becoming one beautiful blur. I don’t have a lot of time so I’ll make this brief.   As soon as we landed we experienced “Africa Time”…. oh, the waiting. At least a couple hours passed before we were once again on the move. And that’s when were...

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...

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...

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...

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,...