Author: Adventures

Hello Hello everybody,     So about the kiss… One day this past week we we were walking to the Timbutini care point down the road when we ran into a familiar face. As we were walking, Maxwell the 27 year old town drunk, popped out from the side of the road. Needless to say, he was in his usual state. He was also starting his his usual conversation. ‘I love you my sister’,  ‘I want to kiss my sister’. He went for poor Melissa first. I think he has the hotts for her dreads.     I got back him about halfway through him...

The Super Bowl.  Saints 31-Colts 17.  One of the most televised events of the year.  I missed it for the second year in a row.  Honestly I couldn’t care less.  I have never been in to spectating sports much.  So it was a bit ironic when 3 huge NFL football players rolled up to the church/carepoint next where I am staying.  One was Anthony Hargrove from the New Orleans Saints this year’s Super Bowl champions.  It had been only a week ago that he was in all his glory.  Soaking in an accomplished life long dream at being the best in the...

When I arrived in Swaziland over 3 weeks ago, I knew that this was a much different place than America.  I could tell by the dirt roads and the underdeveloped areas, and our homestead, that doesn’t have running water.  But it wasn’t until we went for a walk that I realized that this place was further than I ever could imagine.  Well, I guess I imagined it as a kid telling jokes.  I saw a chicken crossing the road. When I first saw it, I could not stop laughing.  By the way, the answer to the old joke is really, to get to the other side.  Livestock...

If you read in 1 Kings 17 and 18 you will learn about an amazing man named Elijah. In short summary, he was a man who prophisied words from the Lord; he was a man who believed in the voice of the Lord even when it sounded crazy; and he had unbelieveable faith that God is who He said he is and would do anything to show people that. Elijah was also one of the two people on the mountain of transfiguration with Jesus (Matthew 17:1-13). I met him when he was sitting in his crib crying for attention. When I picked him up he was fine. All he wanted was for someone to notice...

Our second week in Swaziland has flown by.   This week has been full of praying and asking God what we are supposed to do in Swaziland.  On Monday we spent the day on a game reserve.  We spent the first part of the day driving around looking for animals and the second part of the day we spent in prayer and quiet time with God.  On Tuesday we split up and went to care points to play with kids and help the Gogos feed the kids. The care point that my group went to is the timbutini care point which is also our church and it is just down the road from our...

  This week God has really been teaching me a lot about surrender. Right now I’m reading this book called Crazy Love by Francis Chan (highly reccommend it). It’s about living big for God and having crazy love for him. It gives the analogy of a movie and those who are casted as an extra. We tend to treat our lives as this really important thing. We rent out a whole movie theater on opening night just to watch us be an extra in a movie. We’re on the screen for just seconds and think that the movie is about us. That’s like the big picture when it comes to God....