Right now I am sitting in the living room of our host home and “Let It Be” by the Beatles is playing on the radio in Kabuga, Rwanda while I type my blogs and drink tea. Ah Jesus loves me so much. J   Rwanda is an amazing place. It has only been about five days, and I am already wrecked for this place. God is doing some indescribable things in me.   There is this thing that the World Race practices which is called feedback. Basically every night, your team meets to give each other encouragement. Sometimes there is constructive criticism, but only concerning ministry. It...

What ones ministry look like? Is it playing with kids or serving food to the hungry? Preaching? Leading worship? Praying? Is it building or handing out bibles or doing yard work or making videos or taking pictures or making websites? Maybe it’s cooking for your team or listening to a friend or spending time with God so you can really know the heart of your father. This is one of the biggest things I am searching out here because honestly part of me feels like I could be more effective (and more excited) to be home with my Young Lifers, hanging out with my best friends and...

After a full week of traveling, we finally arrived to Cape Town last Friday! It was definitely exhausting, but a blessing to have time to rest and spend some time getting to know the people I will be living with for the next month. Now we are in Ocean View for the week helping with "Holiday Club," a Bible-based camp for kids and teens. The organization putting it on, called Living Hope, is faithfully doing God's work by serving this community by providing sustainable reasources and education to the next generation. It has been a blessing to be with them and see the impact that...

Hey All!! I am sorry that I have not been able to post anything in a while. It has been a crazy adventure so far. After we left the hotel in Atlanta, we went to the airport to get on our flight to Johanesburg( not sure if I spelled that correctly).  We had to wait a few hours for our flight, but eventually we boarded and began our 18 hour journey!  I apparently got the short straw or unlucky ticket because everyone in our group got a seat on the plane next to eachother in the back except for me, where I was up a few rows in between two men that I have never met before  ...

Moraho! Vite (Hi how are you?!)    The past couple days have been very interesting. A preacher from Kigali (Capital of Rwanda) came in and spoke for 3 nights. Oh and just so you know, they have church every evening and twice on Sunday. Anyway this preacher seemed very nice but as he went on with his sermons we realized something. He was barely using The Word and when he was, it was to back up what HE was saying, most the time it was out of context. He would just go on and on about stories of himself and it just didn't seem right. He went on talking about sacrifices and how we...

We finally arrived in Rwanda very very early in the morning on July 5th! Pastor Innocent and his wife, our host family are the best hosts we could haveasked for. They are both loving and kind, as well as being awesome people of God! We ended up with a house all to ourselves, with a western toilet and the ability to take showers as often as we want. We have a woman from the church named Mary serving us pretty much constantly, making our meals, washing our laundry, cleaning up after us and tons of little stuff I'm sure we don't see. Shes extremely humble and slefless in the way...