Author: Adventures

Ministry looks a little different every day. On Tuesday instead of going to school our leaders decided to let us go out into the community and do atl, atl stands for ask the Lord. I was in a team with my friend Tyler and Carley. We decided to walk around the community surrounding our house and play with kids or pray for the people we encountered. We chose to turn left on the street we normally turn right onto. We walked all the way to the end of the street and ended up at this house with a drawing of a crocodile on the side of it. After we reached this house we decided to turn around and go...

Today was my favorite Zambian day. We had our last day of school ministry. It was uneventful for me, but seeing love grow and God shine through my teammates was moving. I am going to describe all my feelings as if I were still in that moment right now. Tyler and I have spent countless hours preparing posters per request of our 4th grade class’ teacher. We hung a lot of them up today. We walked in class after being off of school ministry for two days and Tr. Kafula said “you’re still here! We missed you! We thought you went home already!” To which I replied “We...

February 15, 2018 will forever be remembered as the day I ran for my life from a crocodile. It all began in the afternoon after lunch when some of the girls on my team decided to go down to a new found African friend’s house for a Bible study. This friend’s name was Ester which was the book we happened to be studying. I had been debating not going with them because I wanted a nap, but I made popcorn and chai tea and cooked up enough motivation to go and BLESS THE LORD I DID BECAUSE IT WAS SO FUN! Just to set the scene, Cass, Beth and I had all brought our chai tea along with us...

Today was my favorite Zambian day. We had our last day of school ministry. It was uneventful for me, but seeing love grow and God shine through my teammates was moving. I am going to describe all my feelings as if I were still in that moment right now. Tyler and I have spent countless hours preparing posters per request of our 4th grade class’ teacher. We hung a lot of them up today. We walked in class after being off of school ministry for two days and Tr. Kafula said “you’re still here! We missed you! We thought you went home already!” To which I replied “We...

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