Author: Adventures

“I think that we’ve got what it takes to get this heart to start beating again.” I’m not sure how many times I will say on this trip how in awe I am that God called me to Africa and I’m finally here. At times I don’t feel as though I’m even really in Swaziland although my senses drastically tell me otherwise. My eyes see mountains everywhere. Poverty everywhere. Bugs everywhere. I smell everything from flowers to cows. I hear everything from my team laughing to cries of the people.   Monday we had the opportunity to go to the...

     Whoever said that God cares more about your character than your comfort must have visited Swaziland. Although Swaziland continues to be one of the most beautiful places I have ever visited, it definitely is not one of the most comfortable places I have ever been. Please keep in mind that before this trip I had sworn off the idea of camping, and public bathrooms were always out of the question. Let me just paint you a picture of what daily life looks like for us here. We have no air conditioning, we sleep in a hut, we take our showers in a bucket, use...

                I’ve been around family and loved ones all my life. The thought never occurred to me of no one ever being there. If I ever needed anyone they were always by me. I am so thankful that God has blessed me with the friends and family that I have now.                 I start with the semi-sappy intro because this week I went to the children’s ward at the Manzini hospital. Let me first go...

  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....

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...

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...