Author: Adventures

Hello everyone!  I’m so glad I get to give you an update.  I love and miss you all!  When I heard that each person on our team is able to post blogs, I was super excited but unsure what I was going to talk about.  I didn’t even write it out before hand like we are supposed to because I didn’t have any ideas.  I eventually settled on talking about wealth and what it really means, but God blessed me with an awesome expereince about an hour ago that I am bursting to share.  It started this afternoon at about two o’clock. . . Everyone was...

A couple of days ago we went to Lorega. Lorega is a place where the homeless live among the dead in a cemetary. Part of me doesn’t even know where to start. They live among the dead. Their home is literally on top of and surrounded by tombs. And it’s not an old burying site either, we saw tombs marked 2004 and these people have been making their home there for well over twenty years. The first church service we went to we had the oppurtunity to teach the children Sunday School off to the side. I taught the songs, and then after the story was taught one of my other team...

Culture Shock – (n) a state of bewilderment and distress experienced by an individual who is suddenly exposed to anew, strange, or foreign social and cultural environment. It hits everyone at different times. For me it took four days. It didn’t hit me as I walked out of the airport and into the Cebu humidity for the first time. It didn’t hit me the next day when I saw dirt, trash, and broken huts for homes on the side of the Cebu City streets. It didn’t...

Hello everyone!Just wanting to let you know that we are all having an amazing time together. God works in strange ways and that is exately what he is doing on our trip. By the grace of God we are all so close already and able to surrender up our past and be vulnerable for one another. However, to really describe our times together is impossible, but here is alittle of what we are all going through. The first word to mind when thinking of our trip is far is humbling. You never really know how well you have it until you are brutally confronted with reality. The first night in...

It’s impossible to know the definition of poverty until you experience it firsthand. Surrounded by people who are thankful that they have a gravestone to sleep on instead of a mud puddle, I decided, as my teammate put it, that I needed to rethink the meaning of wealth. Lorega is basically a group of shacks built in a cemetary. It is inhabited by people who have lived there for their entire lives and don’t know what it means to consume 2,000 calories in 24 hours or to have a clean pair of underwear every day. Since it’s illegal to live in a graveyard in...