I arrived at training camp expecting something completely different. I was very wrong! I showed up to training camp burdened with doubt .For one, I was extremely worried about being in a huge group of all girls (I think it’s like 24 maybe??). So naturally, I came here scared that I wouldn’t fit in and that no one would like me blah blah blah. The usual selfish, insecure stuff. Oh how I was wrong! The girls who I have gotten to know over the past few days are some of the nicest girls I have ever met. I am so excited to be able to call them my family for the next two...

First off, let me just say that Adventures in Missions (AIM)–the agency I am going on the trip with–has done an amazing job preparing us to go into our ministry setting. I do admit that I was a little unsure what training camp was going to entail, but now that I have been through it I see that it was an essential part of the experience. I have been on several other missions trips in my life thus far and I have never in my life been either informally or formally trained to go. So advice to start with:  Please please please. If you are being sent out to serve, somehow prepare...

I have been blessed to spend three months in Swaziland with 13 amazing women who all have incredible qualities that I love and admire:   Jenn: her incredible servants heart, she loves to do voice and when God gives her something to say you hear the passion she has in her voice, I believe she is like a lion: soft, cute and cuddly as she is friendly, welcoming and relational but she things for others without drawing attention to herself, she is always one of the first people to offer to do the things others don’t want to do and it comes so naturally to her. She also has a powerful also...

Hallelujah! Taste and see that the Lord is good! We make our plans but the Lord determines our steps, and thank goodness for that! Although sometimes it might be hard when things don’t happen the way we would like it to or the way we planned, we should find joy and peace in the change. It’s easy to be angry with God or blame Him for when things don’t happen the way we think they should, when really we should be thanking him for taking us from the path we outlined for ourselves. If you take time to look at it though, our plans are so shallow compared to what God has in store for us. ...

“And I find myself here on my knees again, caught up in grace like an avalanche. Nothing compares to this love, love, love, burning in my heart.� During this trip it has been a long slow process of God teaching me to give it all to Him and rely on no part of my own strength because in the end even if my strength is enough to get through the day it won’t provide what the team needs or what I really need either. So it might be ok, but why stick with ok when you can have something much better? So it not only holds me back from my true potential with God but also the lean and what God...

In the dry and impoverished town of Nsoko Swaziland lives a little two year old girl that has stolen my heart and her name is Tembalithle. For the small age of two she has already been through more than most people in their lifetime.   She lives in a small mud hut with her five year old sister Spea and their mom, on a small homestead with about 14 other adults and kids. When Tembalithle was just a few months old her dad died in a car accident just outside their home. And her mom is hardle ever home as she works in the sugar cane field during the day and drinks at night. Since her...