Author: Adventures

     Yesterday, one of our ministry partners joked that he was happy to see that we were finally starting to lose our white skin and get the African skin. He was of course referring to the fact that many of us have some serious sunburns that are peeling. Perhaps it has something to do with the lack of sunscreen that we applied on our beach day Monday.       One of us joked that “The old has gone and the new has come.” As I laughed I realized a serious truth in that statement. We have only been here for a month, but we have all changed and grown...

     I’m not a morning person, but one month ago today I woke up at about 7AM even though I had no reason to be up that early. I couldn’t possibly sleep any longer because I knew that my adventure was beginning on that day. A few hours later I found myself driving up to Gainesville, Georgia with my mom. It was about an hour-long drive to the Adventures in Missions headquarters, and I spent most of that time wondering what training camp had in store for me. Soon I would meet my teammates, who I would be spending three months with in Africa….gosh, I hope we...

I thought it would break, but wait… what? It’s only gotten bigger.  I thought God would do one thing, instead he did the opposite.    “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.  “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts” (Isaiah 55:8-9).   And you know, I love it.    Before this trip, one of my prayers was that God would give me such a love for the Swazi people and this experience that my heart...