Author: Adventures

Oh our lovely Kombis. A.K.A. our sweet rides. These vans comfortably accommodate 8 people. Perfect for our team of 16. Liz’s Kombi, better known as Big Dirty is much more challenged than Neil’s Little Princess. Big Dirty never quite got the hang of accelerating. He has lots of trouble making up the big mountainous hills of Swaziland. Little Princess is more of an easy ride, and was taught well when acceleration was brought up. These babies take us everywhere and anywhere from the hospital to the internet cafe’s so we can communicate with you lovely people! One...

                 Last week we went to Nsoko on Friday for the night. The Novas team there has been facing some heavy spiritual warfare over the past few weeks. Our real life team went with the intention of covering the place where they are staying with prayer through the night. We went out to dinner with the Novas team and had some time to catch up on how they have been doing and how their ministries are going. Apart from not being able to sleep through the night for a few weeks, they have been doing well. After a few hours of...

Philisiwe Mhlanga is a mother of two, her husband died in 2003. She’s been a patient at the HOPE house for exactly a year. Every Monday and Friday, Ryan and I visit her, and every single time he brings her a flower.  Because of the injections she receives, one of the side affects is difficulty hearing.  We still spend time reading the Bible and praying for her every single time anyways. This past Friday, Ryan, Behki and I went to spend the afternoon with her. She told us that she was supposed to be released to go back home back in February, but TB has destroyed her lungs...

“Those who do not weep, do not see.” -Les Miserables            There are some things in Swaziland I don’t think I will ever get used to seeing. A few weeks ago a few of us on our team went for a walk. Across from the general store is a saloon/salon (tell me how that works…). As we were walking up to the general store we saw a group of men who were obviously drunk and were making a scene. As we were standing there looking at the men outside of the saloon, out walks Thaban. Keep in mind that Thaban is five years old and...

Swaziland is beautiful. The longer that we stay here the more I see: rolling hills covered in green; mountains that stretch to the sky; the lightning that illuminates the dark sky in storms; the sunsets that paints the sky in pinks and oranges; the flowers and trees of all shapes and kinds. Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities qualities-his eternal power and divine nature-have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse. God’s very creation proclaims His power and divinity. When we look at the...

This week I’ve done a large variety of things. Let’s see…I’ve led a womens devotion, prayed over people in the hospital (met a woman who tried to commit suicide), butchered a chicken, led a high school devotion, befriended a soccer field of teens, saw my friend from Minnesota in Swaziland, and babysat a random 2 year old. Writing one specific story this has been kind of a challenge to decide on- so I’m picking two stories. First of all (the more serious one), the womens devotion I did was with the ladies at Timbali crafts. We discussed a couple of...