Author: Adventures

The definition of treasure is anything or person greatly valued or highly prized.    Deuteronomy 7:6-9 For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.  The Lord your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.  The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous that other peoples, for you were the fewest of all people.  But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you...

Moses said, “Please show me your glory.” And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you…” -Exodus 33:18-19.   I just wanted to write a blog to tell you about God’s glory in bringing me back to Swaziland. He is so good to me to bring me back here for this short while and Exodus 33 says that God’s glory is seen in His goodness. God is so good.  To be honest I never planned on or felt led in any way to come back to Swaziland this year. The thought never crossed my mind. I had pursued many different options but God always said no...

While in my last blog I expressed my overwhelming sense of the emotional joy I have found here in these people of Swaziland, this time I’ve found a different kind of a joy. A tangible joy, this joy…is a person. After a prayer session, my friend aubrey and I set out to find a ministry of our own. There is a neighboring house that we have been dying to meet the people. After several failed attempts to get into the barbwire fence we decided it just wasn’t God’s will. We started to head back to our hut when we saw a house directly across the street from ours we never had...

But you, O God my Lord, deal on my behalf for your name’s sake, because your steadfast love is good, deliver me! -Psalm 109:21. In this blog I just wanted to share something that I have been learning more solidly while here in Swaziland. It has everything to do with God’s strength and faith and His glory. On Monday as our team was walking home from ministry I began to pray and asked God to reveal lessons He was teaching me and things He was doing in me since coming to Swaziland. So often I find it easy to overlook the things that the Lord is doing in and for me so I have to...

I hear this song so often, but I rarely stop to think about it: how does Jesus really love me? I heard it put last week that “the chief way that Jesus loves us is in our weakness, our immaturity, our inability” and I can add my naïveté, my outright failure, my stubbornness, the list really goes on and on. His love means the most to me when I know that I really don’t deserve it, and those are the opportunities that He has to really show the depth of His love for us.   How then do I take John 13:34, when Jesus says, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love...

In the past couple blogs I have mentioned Khosi.  Tuesday our team went back to the Hope House and there I saw Khosi again!  I walked in when Colleen, Cassie, and Natalie were in reading Scripture with her.  It is a blessing and amazing to be able to freely read Gods word to those who are in need of his perfect and true words.  When Tara and I sat down and joined in with talking to Khosi, she was not feeling too great.  she still had high spirits and spoke positive.  A couple things she said: she is ready for Jesus to return (AMEN!)  She was thinking and...