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Moving Bricks

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

For our first day officially working, we were scheduled to do construction! Knowing me, I’m the laziest person in America and the best person to complain on everything! But when we got to the site to begin our job we were told to move a pile of bricks to the second level of a new building being built….. My eyes got so big knowing that I don’t do manual labor. But I knew that I came to India to serve, so I sucked it up in my heart! As we began to move the blocks we didn’t make a plan and started to move on our own. We moved several bricks down the hill and up the...

Adventure is Out There Pt. 1

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - Macedonia

Wow, where do I start? I have been gone for almost two weeks now. My adventure began in the early morning “light” of 5 am September 1st. My family groggily waved me goodbye as my dad and I headed towards downtown Dallas and the first of many airports on my trip to Skopje. Once we got there, my dad was allowed to come through security with me (thank you nice ticket lady!) and we had breakfast together one last time (chick-fil-a chicken minis, what else?). My dad was also able to get hold of my brother William all the way in China, so I got a nice proper goodbye from him too....

Full Circle Moment

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

I was very privileged to grow up in a Christian home. Growing up, my parents were always looking for Christian movies for my siblings and me to watch. When I was about 10 years old, they bought a movie called “Beyond the Next Mountain”. The movie is about a young boy in India who was from a small village in the mountains. When his father was young, a Welsh missionary visited their village and the boy’s father was one of the missionary’s first converts. Since there was no Bible in the tribes language, the boy’s father decided to send his son to the...

Outside of Comfort

I awoke from a seven hour van ride to the children of the orphanage waiting on the other side of the door ready to take my luggage to the guest house. How are orphans joyful enough to serve me? I couldn’t talk because I didn’t want everyone to know that I was on the verge of crying. Its one thing to know that there are orphans struggling in a third world country, but to see them with my own eyes and be with them as they cheerfully served me, was a foreign feeling that put a funny feeling in my throat. I felt undeserving and I wept. The next few days I still felt undeserving of...

Fully Formed in Love!

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

This particular morning I was bothered by the feelings I was perceiving by the team. I felt their worry, but as I felt it I thought they were worried about me speaking. “Do they think I’m worried?” The feelings were heavy and I didn’t know what to do with it. Many asked if I was ready for the message this morning. I couldn’t understand the question because I didn’t feel like I was giving off any juju that would speak of fear and worry. We went back down to the college where we are living and I changed my clothes, out on my make up, and stepped out to go...

The Art of Slowing Down

September 16, 2017
Adventures
2017 Fall - India

Growing up in an environment that was always on the go, it was very challenging to come to a completely different pace of life. The earth and the people in it seemed to slow down. As the team and I walked through the markets we would wave to the people who lived there and they got so excited to see us and that we took the time to greet and smile at them. It was so different from what I was used to because at home people are too busy to stop and say hello. The entire atmosphere is unlike any other I’m used to. Since the pace is slower it allows you to stop and look around and...

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