Author: Adventures

We have teams in on Saturday for training camp and all of them launch out of the United States to their prospective country on Wednesday, January 19th. Over the next four months young adults will travel to five different countries to bring Kingdom and we are so excited to see what happens during the four and a half months they are out on the field. At Real Life, we are asking participants to try to blog every week. This can be about the difficulty of living on the field, community, ministry, the adventure, or anything related to their time on the field. Granted, internet time can be hard...

At our new home, there are kids around constantly. Sunrise to sunset, little hands line the window sills, hoisting up faces to peer in and see if any of their new friends are awake and selfishly not outside playing. These kids range in age from 3 years to mid-20’s, each with bare feet and their own heartbreaking story. From a ministry standpoint, we could not have any better circumstances. We have a captive audience of 30-40 kids on our back porch at all times, hungering for attention, interaction, and, ultimately, the gospel. They fight over holding our hands, sitting next to us,...

Top Ten since the night we became the 12 disciples.   1. We are the “12 disciples”of Swaziland. I am Phillip, I prefer Uncle Phil.   2. The Gogo’s from Care Points in Manzini and Nsoko hand-sew purses, pocket-books, and many different types of bags. So in order to give all the hardworking Timbali Gogo’s a reward for such a successful year AIM set up a weekend retreat for them! It was so fun!! I was on duty with decorations and games. Decorating for the retreat was so great. I was talking with Julie, an employee of AIM here in Swazi and...

Things have definitely been moving forward quite quickly since the last time I wrote.  We moved out to Nsoko two weeks ago, which is where I was two years ago with my World Race team.  It has been so neat to see so many familiar faces.  There were a few children that I really wanted to see and this week I found quite a few of them.    The first one my team and I referred to as Boots.  As you can see in the first picture she always wore motorcycle boots so we chose an easy name to refer to her.  I found her as I was walking up to the school this...

I have fallen in love with Nsoko. Possibly one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. I wish I could explain to the Swazis how beautiful their country truly is. Of course they all picture America as something that is ten times better than their land, but in all honesty I’m sure after spending maybe a week in NYC they would miss their vast lands and beautiful mountains.   The past two and a half weeks have been a constant go, go, go..and God has opened up more doors than our team could have ever imagined. Whether it’s speaking at a public school, going to share...