Adventures – Page 7

…and they’re off!

January 26, 2015
Adventures
Field Support

With Training Camp behind them and the world at their reach, these 18 Passporters (and their 3 fearless leaders) are jet-setting from Atlanta to Africa!! Pray for safe travels and leave a fun comment for them to read when they arrive!

Constant in the Trials and the Change

August 2, 2014
Adventures
General Posts

At 5:30 PM Wednesday, my flight landed in Manhattan, Kansas. I had so many thoughts and emotions upon arrival. I missed my team and Swaziland, but it felt so relieving to be back on Kansas’ soil after two days of airports. I had a joyful reunion with roommates and friends, and I was so grateful for a safe journey home. Re-entry is hard. Culture shock is definitely real, and jet lag is annoying. I was so overwhelmed by the hundreds of drink options at Sonic. My first trip to the grocery store was way more emotionally intense than the average American experiences. I miss my team. I...

Home Is Where The Heart Is.

August 2, 2014
Adventures
General Posts

They say that home is where the heart is. Well if home is where the heart is, then I’m screwed, because I don’t know where to call home. There’s a quote I found shortly before I left for Swazi that captures this sentiment: “You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving people in more than one place.” My heart is elsewhere. My heart is everywhere. My heart is in Tashville, Nennessee. My heart is in St. Clair, Michigan. My heart is in Canada...

My Heart is Scattered.

At 6:45 tomorrow morning, my heart is once again being scattered over the United States. I have come to terms with the fact that my heart will never be in one place. The Lord has called me to the nations. He has called me to love people. And you know what: it sucks to have your heart divided. It sucks to get so close to people and then have them taken away from you. But I trust that His way is better than my own. This has undoubtedly been the hardest summer of my...

God is everywhere

I thought I was going to be bringing God to a country that didn’t know who He was, but instead, they showed me who He really is. I thought it would be impossible to see Jesus through the immense poverty and devastating illness, but instead He was all around me, it just took me too long to see it. He is in the Gogo’s that care for every single person around them with unmeasurable kindness. He is in the 12-year-old orphans that carry their younger siblings down the dirt road to get food. He is in Sister Joseph who never thinks about how the children she kisses and hold so close to...

To The Future

This is to the future. To those who feel called to serve. To those who don’t know what they might get into, but who are willing to get into it anyway. To those who are ready to go: Don’t go to escape what’s happening at home. Come and find that the only resting place that will truly be “home” is within God’s hands. Don’t go to take pictures with cute kids. Come to leave a piece of your heart with a blind fifty year old mother at the local market. Don’t go and look upon the culture as foreign. Come and embrace everything as beautiful, because...

Author: Adventures