The team arrived yesterday.  They are all getting rested up and prepping to start ministry.  The phones and internet are a little spotty for the team but the leaders will try and update as often as they can.   

The team is safe and sound in Joberg resting.  They will finish their final leg of their travel in the morning.   The leaders said the team is doing great.  

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 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...

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...

  My team of 15 girls and 2 leaders were split into two groups and assigned a care point. My co-leader lead one team and I was assigned to the other. Our care point would be Ntabas, conveniently located just 5 minutes walking distance from our homestead. We weren’t sure exactly what all we’d be doing at the care point, but my girls and I were ready for just about anything our first day. As we walked onto the property we were immediately greeted by a sea of little preschoolers running towards us. Each jumped into the arms of one of the girls and wrapped their arms around...