Author: Adventures

  “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” -Matthew 6:21    Coming into this week of ministry, I was very hesitant about teaching children. I’ve never been very good with kids unlike many of my friends. Kids ministry was definitely out of my comfort zone; especially when teaching English in a culture I don’t know very much about.     God challenged me to step out and really make an effort to teach; not just sit on the sidelines and watch the other girls who were more comfortable with the ministry. I prayed for courage, and...

I watched as the flower was bought, money exchanged from hand to hand, and carefully held as they approached the steps. Gently they slid their sandals off and their bare feet felt the stone steps leading up to the platform, and just as careful as the flower was exchanged, they knelt as their children follow and pray to the single statue erected in the middle of a park where the feeling of pain and darkness is truly tangible in the air. After minutes they rose to their feet, laid the flower at the foot of the statue along with 1000s of other accompanying it, and in perfect cyclical...

I watched as the flower was bought, money exchanged from hand to hand, and carefully held as they approached the steps. Gently they slid their sandals off and their bare feet felt the stone steps leading up to the platform, and just as careful as the flower was exchanged, they knelt as their children follow and pray to the single statue erected in the middle of a park where the feeling of pain and darkness is truly tangible in the air. After minutes they rose to their feet, laid the flower at the foot of the statue along with 1000s of other accompanying it, and in perfect cyclical...