Author: Adventures

Surprise African Sunsets, Roosters, and Smiling Go-Go’s

Welcome to AFRICA. I can successfully say that after a 16 hour plane ride to south africa and a 5 hour van ride across the border to the Kingdom of Swaziland, we are finally here! This blog post is going to consist mainly of the experience we’ve seen so far since it’s only been about 2 full days. The village we are staying at is called Timbutini and it is quintessential Africa. Women walk on the side of the road with baskets on their heads and babies on their backs, kids laughing as they pump water from the well as they walk home from school in their school uniforms. We were...

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Unspeakable Joy

The first couple days are officially CHECKED OFF on my journey this summer in Swaziland, Africa. I have one word to describe this place… Breathtaking. Even the squatties, (the toilets… well more like holes in the groud) because they… well take your breath away! 🙂 Anyways, yesterday was the first full day in Timbutini, a little village that is now me and my beautiful team of 21 other girls home for the next two months. The morning started with an orientation at the local church/care point. As the orientation was going on children started showing up at the care point,...

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Beauty

I know that everyone’s posts have been all about what we have been doing, but I really wanted to tell of something that has stood out to me. So, read the rest of the  blogs for details of our trip! What has stood out for me has been the beauty. I haven’t quite been able to get over how beautiful it is here in Swaziland. Mainly the beauty in the people. We just got back to the homestead from doing a prayer walk around the area. As a complete answered prayer, we came across an elderly lady struggling to push her wheelbarrow of water up a hill. So we asked, through the...

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Made it Safely

We just spoke with the team leaders and they’ve all arrived safely in South Africa.  Tomorrow, they will be in route to their ministry site in Swaziland via some very long bus rides and will be settling in these next few days and getting some orientation from their host.  Expect to see some blogs rolling out in the next few days as they find internet. Thanks for all the prayers for this team! The Passport field support team

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Doubting Thomas (the girl version)

I arrived at training camp expecting something completely different. I was very wrong! I showed up to training camp burdened with doubt .For one, I was extremely worried about being in a huge group of all girls (I think it’s like 24 maybe??). So naturally, I came here scared that I wouldn’t fit in and that no one would like me blah blah blah. The usual selfish, insecure stuff. Oh how I was wrong! The girls who I have gotten to know over the past few days are some of the nicest girls I have ever met. I am so excited to be able to call them my family for the next two...

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preparation is essential!

First off, let me just say that Adventures in Missions (AIM)–the agency I am going on the trip with–has done an amazing job preparing us to go into our ministry setting. I do admit that I was a little unsure what training camp was going to entail, but now that I have been through it I see that it was an essential part of the experience. I have been on several other missions trips in my life thus far and I have never in my life been either informally or formally trained to go. So advice to start with:  Please please please. If you are being sent out to serve, somehow prepare...

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