Author: Adventures

  Hey everyone! (Sanibonani) Well- as you know- we are now in Africa and it very much feels like we are in Africa. The landscape is beautiful as well as the people. Most of our team has gotten a little sunburned since it’s a big change from the winter weather. I’m not missing the cold weather though 🙂  This week our team has been viewing the various ministries that we can be a part of. We’ve visited multiple care points, a house for the sick, the women who are a part of timbali crafts, and a school. At this point we are just seeing what our different contacts...

Sanibonani from Swaziland!                 So much has happened since arriving here in Swaziland last Sunday. We have spent our first week learning about he basic cultural norms and seeing the different ministry opption that we have while we are here. Some ministries that exisist here in Swaziland include the Hope House (a place for terminaly ill patients to recieve houseing, treatment, and Christ’s love), numerous Care Points (safe places for orphans to receive two meals each day), a school, and the Timbutini...

  Saneebonanee! (or hello!) friends! I’m in Swaziland, Africa right now… crazy right? The village we are living in is called Timbutini which literally translates to “too many goats” and the name couldn’t be more fitting. They are all over the place. On our homestead there are goats, cows, hens and about 5 too many roosters. The roosters are horrible. When you think rooster you think about them crowing when the sun comes up. Not ours. They are blind or something cause they regularly start crowing between 2:30am-3:30am and keep going till it’s light...

“There You stood holding me, waiting for me to notice You. You are the truth. My hands are open and you are filling them.”   This place is beautiful. We wake up to the warm sun and the green mountains and end our day with countless stars. This week my team was given the opportunity to see the different types of ministry we can be involved in while we’re here. There are various “care points” set up around Manzini where children come after school to eat and receive discipleship training. Many of them have lost one or both parents. Older women...

  We’ve been in Swaziland for about a week now and in the midst of roosters crowing and goats sneezing on our homestead, and driving around all over Manzini and Timbutini on mostly dirt roads, we are nearing the beginning of structured ministry. Boy, I cannot wait. We’ve had an opportunity to visit all the care points in Timbutini, which is located near Manzini. And at every single one, we have arrived and immediately had dozens of children flock to us wanting us to pick them up and play with them. They make it very easy to love them. They are kids...

              The First week in Swaziland has been full of many changes to my daily routine. Bucket showers, hole-in-the-ground potties, living in a hut, enjoying the heat, and waking up with flies around my face are just a few of the changes I’ve been adapting too. Getting back to the basics of life has been a refreshing escape from all the distractions back home and the scenery makes it nearly impossible to not take note of God’s beautiful creation all around me....