Dear Family and Friends,                It has been a two weeks since I have been home from my trip to South Africa.  I thought the words would come to me to help explain to you exactly what I took away from my time away, but the words have not come.  It has taken me two weeks to realize the words will never come, because the way God uses us and changes us are indescribable.  I did not come back drastically changed as if God showed me my future, but I took away much more; I took home clarity.  Growing...

Made it home safely. Thank you for all your prayers. Pictures will be up on Facebook soon. 

The following blog was inspired by a journal entry that I wrote on July 15th…    In opening my final blog post of the 2012 South Africa trip I want to let you know that I’m safely back home in the States and beginning the adjustment back to American culture while thinking through all the things I’ve experienced in this short month across the globe. When on the trip I didn’t have much time to actually stop and process what was going on around me and it’s taken me leaving the mission field and coming back to my home to actually see some of the...

I look down at my feet for a dry piece of land to step on. I put my foot down and it sinks into the wet mud. Whoops! Every morning, a teammate and I work at a creche (daycare) on a farm neighboring the school the rest of our team is serving at. The school specializes in special needs kids, mostly ones with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (alcoholism is a major problem on the farms). This particular day, it's pouring down rain and the tractor tracks have created massive puddles through the farms. The thought of the students walking through the mud interrupts my own...

The whole entire time that I have been here in Rwanda has been a wonderful time in being able to help out with the community, experience a new culture, and meet fantastic people. With this being a mission trip, God has been working in my life (of course) and has been showing me things that I would not have ever noticed back in the States. The first thing that happened was back in Atlanta where we had the listening circle and someone said that I am the person that God created me to be in terms of the qualities that I have. That was something that I have struggled with over the past few years...

Here's a video I made from our month in Tanzania!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy0SYLT3xtY