Author: Adventures

Favorite Memories So Far

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...

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17 New Sisters

Living with 18 other women was one of the aspects of the trip that I was most apprehensive about. Will we get along? What if I don’t like anyone? How will all our talents mesh and work together? I’ve been pleasantly surprised and I now want to live in the way team does with everyone in my life. We have built a community that encourages one another to be more Christ-like and supports each other in everything we do. One thing I love in particular is that, at the end of day, we all come together for team time. We start with out by praying together and then have time to give each...

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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...

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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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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...

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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....

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