Author: Adventures

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...

As I hung upside down, suspended halfway between a bridge that separates two southern  African countries and the Zambezi River, an overwhelming feeling of relief washed over me. Roughly fifty seconds prior I had stood on the edge of the aforementioned Victoria Falls bridge. I would like to tell you that at that moment I was filled with some mixture of anticipation, zeal and adrenaline. However, that was not the case, my feelings were just the opposite. Fear of death and nearly debilitating trepidation were a far more accurate description of my feelings; perhaps watching a video of a...

“And he said, “Who are you, Lord?” And he said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. But rise and enter the city, and you will be told what you are to do.” The men who were traveling with him stood speechless, hearing the voice but seeing no one. Saul rose from the ground, and although his eyes were opened, he saw nothing. So they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And for three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.” — Acts? ?9:5-9 I grew up in a church with one of the smartest pastors I’ve ever had the...

This is amazing, this is incredible!  I love you guys!  Don’t worry about it, it doesn’t bother me!  I want to spend every moment with you!!!!!!  I need you to get away from me for a minute!  Well, that escalated quickly! What do you do when life gets real?  When everything turns from fairytales, and magic dust; to horror stories, and cold hard rain?  Now, I am being a little dramatic, and that is partially just to get my point across about how hard things seems IN THE MOMENT.   In marriage there is this term that is used to describe...

After teaching at the Amazing Grace School for a month now I’ve realized how important it is for kids to go to school. Almost all the kids in America dread going to school, but here in Zambia the kids are so eager to go. Many times during the day kids will run up to me asking for a book or pen and it breaks my heart seeing the passion they have to learn. Yet they are quickly refused the chance because of how poor this country is. Going to school here means they have a real chance at getting out of poverty and being able to support themselves for longer periods of time, rather than...

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...