Adventures – Page 131

Missionary for Life

Over the last couple of days it has become so obvious to me that God has called me to way higher places then just being here in Capetown for three months. He has shown me how He wants me to live not just here but when I go home as well. I didn’t come here to be a missionary for three months and call it good. I’ve been called to be a missionary for the rest of my life. I’ve been called to live in a way that wherever I go I make Jesus’ name known. I’ve been called to shine the light of Jesus wherever my feet walk. So often it is easy to get caught up in life and...

Favorite Memories So Far

October 28, 2016
Adventures
2016 Fall -Nicaragua

It rains here in Nicaragua, quite often, almost every day, and about half the time it rains, it pours, hard. So one night, a storm came right before dinner and we were all at the eating area. It thundered, the little kids screamed, lightening cracked, the rain pounded so heavily on the metal roof you could hardly hear, and the electricity went out. We made lanterns by putting our water bottles on top of our phone flashlights, illuminating the table in blue, green, and orange. After dinner, no one wanted to go out in the rain so we played BS (also known as lies when played around...

One family’s trash, another family’s home.

Doing ministry in Thailand is a daily surprise. You never know what exactly you’re doing, where you’re going, or what you’re going to see. Most of these days have consisted of excessive amounts of painting, shoveling sand filled with angry fire ants, scrubbing walls, and more painting. Wednesday’s ministry didn’t look much different. We spent the day cleaning out a building from top to bottom. We were moving furniture, organizing boxes, scrubbing walls- the usual. While the jobs we’re doing here are important, there’s nothing glorious about them....

Thai Dawgs and a man named Phillip

On September 10th after a long day of ministry, our Passport Team headed home to clean up before dinner. After a few minutes of chatting and struggling to connect to the wifi, Josh, Jordan, Morgan, Madison, and I decided to hit the streets. Our mission: to take pictures of the wild dogs of Mae Sot to post on Josh’s Instagram page, “thaidawgs.” As we were wandering the streets, clueless to where we were going, we made a series of turns that lead us to Grace Life Church. It was in the middle of a quiet Thai neighborhood. As we stumbled upon it, we heard what we thought was...

Broken Chains

When I imagined what this missions trip to Thailand would look like I thought it would be completely different. I imagined we would be living in small straw huts inside a tiny village in a rainforest. I thought I’d be spending every day at an orphanage teaching children and that I’d be doing evangelism with my team throughout villages. If someone would’ve told me God brought me to Southeast Asia to do things like breaking chains I would never have believed them. Now here’s the funny part: My team is actually spending time here breaking literal chains. Bike chains, to...

The Adventures (In Missions) of Training Camp!

After months of planning, hours of packing, and countless tears, I said one last goodbye to my family and stepped into my next big adventure. I boarded my 45 minute flight, and before I knew it I was landing in Atlanta. After retrieving my gigantic blood-orange bag, I headed to the food court to meet my “family away from family” for the next three months. We wandered around the airport and finally found our vans. Everyone squeezed into the van and we were off.As we arrived at training camp we began to get to know each other with awkward hellos and stories of our homes. The first...

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