“More pleasing to me than all your prayers, works and penances is that you would believe I love you.” Prophetic word spoken to Marjury Kempe by my favorite person ever, Jesus. I read this in what is quickly becoming the greatest book I have ever read, The Ragamuffin Gospel. Over the course of the last two months, God has rocked my world. He has broken and revived me in a way I never thought possible. The brokenness hurt and it hurt badly.  Facing things from my past that I haven’t thought of in years was extremely difficult but in that pain I found something...

A glimpse into Africa…   Rafting the Nile. African sunsets. Praying for healing. Eating with my hands. Beautiful, dirty feet. Holding hands with school children. Sharing a testimony. Dancing to the beat of a drum surrounded by a hundred children. Evangelizing in the market. Leading someone to Christ. Star gazing in the bush of Africa. Community living. Chapati. Being attacked by a mob of children when i take out my camera. Soap as a luxury. Naturally sweet, ripe bananas. Teaching and demonstrating the love of Jesus with African children. Goats milk. Holding a malnourished baby...

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  1 Corinthians 13:4-7 This verse has been on my heart for the last few days and I absolutely love it! I’ve heard and read over this more times than I can count but lately I’ve tried extra hard to apply it my to life.  This describes God’s love for us. His love is all of...

We had our first rain since we’ve been here. Of course me and my team mates had an epic dance party and sang some crazy worship songs as we all jumped around in the pouring african rain. It was something we were all waiting for, for a very long time, so to finally get it was a huge blessing and really refreshing after being in the hot sun all morning.  It was just yesterday that we got a chance to go to all four of the clinics here in Malaba, Uganda. While we were there we got the wonderful blessing of just going and praying over the sick and also having such a even greater...