Author: Adventures

When asking the Lord for patience you have to be careful, because He WILL give you situations to practice patience in. I’m finding this out the hard way. I have always struggled with being patient and it’s an area that I want to grow in. Patience can look very different person to person and situation to situation. On this trip the Lord has given me PLENTY of situations to be patient in. But to be honest it’s still really hard. For me I’m impatient in almost every aspect of my life. Especially waiting to see God’s plan for me. I just want to get a head start or...

I’ve been studying the book of Acts lately, and with that, the Holy Spirit. Just before this, in John 16, Jesus is talking to the disciples about going up to heaven, and He tells them “it’s better for you that I go so that I can send the Helper, and if I do not leave the Helper cannot come.” He goes on to say that this Spirit that He is sending will lead us into all truth, bring conviction, and is the vessel in which we receive our heavenly inheritance. All of that sounds hella good and you bet your face I want it in my life. The Spirit also speaks for us, shares the...

Bubba Arthur, What a sweet boy you are. You have made ministry for me this month. Every day, as I walk through that wanky red fence, I hope to see your puppy dog eyes waiting on the other side. Greeted by 20+ kids shouting, I am most delighted with your hello hug. You might not stay in my class room for the whole 3 hours (because you sneak over to snuggle with teacher Logan) but the moments I do get to see you are my favorite moments. By lunch time, you waddle your way back over to me, with an open mouth ready for me to spoon feed you with your over filled lunch. After lunch is my favorite...

There is a little girl in my class and her name is Precious. She’s about a year and four months, and she is timid. She isn’t one of our students but she might as well be. Her mother, Cynthia, is the teacher of Kendall and I’s class. Teacher Cynthia has told us that Precious was very sick as a baby, which is evident when you look at the fact that she doesn’t attempt to walk or talk, she has a receding hair line, and she is unusually small for her age. Precious is attached at the hip of her 22 year old mother, crawling after her as she sweeps our class’s spilt...

I get it. Really. When woman get upset because the Bible talks about men being over woman, and wives submitting to their husbands. There are some absolutely horrible representations of what “Christian” men or even just men in general are like, or how they treat people. So I understand woman feeling defensive and wanting to compensate with their independence when Christian’s spit out these verses, because I would do the same thing. It’s so crucial to understand that when the Bible speaks of these things it’s referring to a time back in the Garden when...

As we walk over a make shift bridge to the Maramba flood grounds, the air is filled with the sound of shrill whistles and Nyanja (a local dialect) being barked by men and children alike. It is mid afternoon in Maramba township, and the sun is in full force, bearing down on the moist dirt, wet from recent rain. From an outsiders perspective, the following scene is that of a pickup soccer match, akin to street basketball courts littered across America. However this false perception is soon to be shattered. The Maramba grounds, settled between a local high school and small river that grows...