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Life After My Trip to Jamaica

September 12, 2015
Adventures
Jamaica

I have been home almost two months now and life has gone easier in some places and hard in others. I wake up every morning still remembering sleeping on the church benches and having my beautiful team around me. I am reminded of Jamaica ever time I see a little kid playing outside or in my church. I see the kids faces when ever I scroll through my pictures. I see the feet of the little girl that loved to sit on my lap and just watch people ever time I open up my Facebook account. I hear my teams voices when ever I read there letter. I see it everywhere. A lot has happened to me well...

A New Season

August 10, 2015
Adventures
Swaziland

I arrived home from my month long trip to Swaziland 17 days ago. Re-entry has been very hard for me. In Swaziland I spent everyday, every hour serving others and focusing on those around me; not focusing on myself. During our stay in country we spent a lot of time pouring love and encouragement into the children at our assigned CarePoints and into the community. When the team wasn’t out doing ministry, we were still with each other 24/7. Living together for a month was the perfect opportunity to serve one another, speak life into each other, give good feedback and to just love one...

I Do Not Wake Up Anymore

August 4, 2015
Adventures
Swaziland

I got back into the states on Thursday July 23, 2015. For the next week I woke up at 2:30 am. EVERY. SINGLE. MORNING. At first it was annoying and I would beg God to let me fall back asleep. Each day got easier. Every time I would spend time in prayer and I would cry. I was all alone at 2:30 in the morning every day. Honestly it was the best part of my day. I knew for the next four hours I would be alone to cry. I was able to just let out all my emotions. I missed my team…I miss my team. Being home is not easy. Actually it stinks. They say it will be hard, they say people won’t...

God’s Heart Beat

July 27, 2015
Adventures
Uganda

A heart beat,Pumping lifeblood through your veins.You would die without it. God’s heart beat:LoveCompassionHelping the needy Things that cannot be put into words. God’s heart beat coursing through you; as you dance and laugh with children playing mingle; as you break up a fistfight two children have started, trying to be first; as you visit a single mom of nine and your heart goes out to them. As beautiful broken people grab your heart, the heartbeat is no longer your own, but starts to beat to the rhythm of God’s heart.

“Old Pine”

July 26, 2015
Adventures
Uganda

“As the old pine fell we sang, just to bless the morning” Old Pine by Ben Howard. A song whose lyrics hit home today. As my adventures in Uganda come to a close, I feel the call to many more. When I step off the airplane in Atlanta, GA to end our trip, I know another will be there to take me to experiences greater than I could have hoped or imagined. As the “Old Pine” is falling my heart sings. We’ve had a week filled with school children’s laughter, rooftop safari rides and late night, starlit conversations with friends. Each moment...

A Change of Pace

July 26, 2015
Adventures
Swaziland

This was written while still in the beautiful country of Swaziland. Internal, indescribable, intentional. These three words only begin to summarize how our African children’s care point ministry has gone. Internal:Learning the internal state of a child who has never experienced the love of Jesus before is hard. So many people think it’s so easy to go to another country and just love. It isn’t though. Since love-impoverished children have never experienced such an emotion before, they have no clue how to take the love, how to internalize it. That’s difficult to work...

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