Author: Adventures

The “I am” wall

“I believe that your hope for growth, meaning and fulfillment as a Christian is based on understanding who you are — specifically, your identity in Christ as a child of God. Your understanding of who God is and who you are in relationship to Him is the critical foundation for your belief system and you behavior patterns as a Christian.â€� (from Victory Over the Darkness)   Over the past couple seasons of my life the Lord has pressed on my heart the importance of realizing our identity in Christ; seeing ourselves and others through his eyes and walking tall as children of...

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Prayer requests.

Hey everyone,   This is just a blog to thank you for your prayers and to tell you that God is definitely answering them and blessing us through them. Prayer is so powerful and so humbling so we thank you and ask you to keep praying and lifting up our team to the will of God.   We just wanted to write you to tell you of some prayer requests that we have for our team and ministry and to encourage you in knowing that your prayers are being answered. God hears and He does move.   Please pray for:   –Unity -Among our team and our ministries and the people we are...

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Welcome to Swazi

Hello!   We’ve all made it safely to Manzini and are settling in rather well. After my cooking mishap (no one has dared to make rice since then) and the monster spider (P.S. we didn’t actually get it out of the bathroom, it’s still dead on the floor, it’s just hidden. J) in our bathroom, we are managing quite well. J   As I’ve slowly come to know my girls better over this past week and a half, I am becoming more and more convinced of God’s perfect placement of them on our team. Although we are all different and maybe not entirely sure what we are doing here in Africa...

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The girl from “White Mountain”

We arrived to the carepoint in Ntabamhloshana about an hour early after and hour and a half walk we decided to sit and wait. Today was our first day at this particular place where they feed children who have no food but it was a Saturday so we didn’t know who would come.  They usually are only open monday-friday.  So I sat down on the dirt and saw three little sisters walking up and all of them have really short hair so you never know if its a boy or a girl.  We sat and talked with them but then decided to play some games.  After about an hour of games- which...

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