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...

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...

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...

One of my favorite things here in Swazi has been when my teammates and I lay outside our hut to stargaze and sing worship. First off, there is nothing like the African night sky. Never in my life have I seen so many stars and such a high resolution of stars at that. Might I add you can see the MILKY WAY here. At least we think it’s the Milky Way… The only words I can think to describe it are WOW and majestic. What an awesome experience to gaze at God’s breathtaking artwork while worshiping Him. One night in the middle of our stargazing worship, suddenly it dawned on me: a...

          If I’m being honest, I don’t love the snotty noses, the germ covered hands that double as toilet paper, the clothes that are stained with who knows what, or the bare bum that sits on my lap.                      If I’m being honest, I’ve convinced a child who peed their pants to play soccer instead of sit on my lap. There have been times where I’ve (regretfully) dodged physical contact with children that would be “too messy” or “too germy.” These...

Wow! I am in Africa! The things I love about Africa: the people the simplicity the beauty the time the bus rank (hahaha it’s the craziest place, i’m not even sure how to describe it but I love it, it makes me feel alive) the people the people the people Swaziland has amazing people. They love like I have never seen before. Their love is genuine and easily given. They radiate. The people here thirst for the Lord, and his word. It’s incredible! While many of them ask for money they would rather you give them a bible. When you give out a bible litterally people swarm. People...