An update from Swaziland! I am still alive, and I am loving every second of being in this beautiful country! I love the people, I love the weather, I love the amazing mountainous view, I love the way God is working in this country, and I love that I get to be a part of God’s divine plan for Swaziland! Another thing I have come to love very much is the family of orphans that live up the hill from our homestead. Their dad died four years ago, and their mother was sent to prison for seven years leaving her 7 children to fend for themselves. AIM found a care taker named Mbali (who I also...

  As I sat with a lap full of children at Timbutini carepoint, I became o v e r w h e l m e d. I’m overwhelmed by how skinny the precious little boy nuzzling into my neck is. I’m overwhelmed how all the kids lick up every scrap of the “pap” they are fed at the carepoints. I’m overwhelmed when I realize that might be the only time they get food. I’m overwhelmed at how big their bellies are. I’m overwhelmed at how unlike today Anele normally doesn’t have anybody to pick her up and wipe away her tears when she falls on the playground....

During our testimony time, we can always count on someone asking, “Who is God to you?” I never really thought to heavily on it until I had to share my testimony recently.  It really opened my eyes that we don’t serve a simple, finite god but a God that we can’t wrap our minds around. A God that we can call so many different names and they would all be appropriate. He is Abba Father, He is our Rock, He is our comfort, He is Alpha and Omega, He is our great Shepherd, He is Emmanuel, He is our Lord and Savior, He is our Creator, He is our shelter and strong...

Swaziland is living in a three bedroom house with twenty three people.Swaziland is no indoor plumbing.Swaziland is goats bleating, cows mooing, and roosters crowing at 3am. Swaziland is navigating through the bus rink.Swaziland is cold bucket showers.Swaziland is giant spiders in our living room.Swaziland is the stench that is the squatty potty.Swaziland is never having clean feet ever.Swaziland is washing clothes and dishes by hand.Swaziland is learning to take nothing for granted. And I wouldn’t change a thing. Swaziland is singing ‘The Circle of Life’ at...

It has been a week since I left the familiarity of the United States to set out with 33 other individuals on this adventure of a lifetime to Swaziland. I have already experienced so much and somehow there is still so much further to go! Each and every day there is something that makes me stop and say “Wow. I’m in Africa!” because the enormity of my current reality still hasn’t fully set in.   I am blessed to be living with 10 beautiful, crazy, insightful and loving women at this adorable homestead, complete with a rooster that never fails to start crowing at...

Wow where do I even begin to describe my time in Swaziland so far. It has been amazing to say the least. So many wonderful things have happened and God has already shown us so much. There have been many things that have touched my heart but the Nkambule Family definitely has touched me the most. This is a family of ten kids and a mother and father. We met this family because a few of my teammates had found them when some of the girls of the Nkambule family were fetching water from the creek. And when I say fetching water I mean taking 5 or 6 huge buckets and filling them to the brim with...