Author: Adventures

After 31 hours of traveling we have finally arrived. Our hosts have been great feed us a wonderful lunch. We are now playing games and getting to know each other. Rest easy tonight mom. I am here safe. Love you all.  Kelsey

hello everyone! we made it to the International Christian Centre in nairobi, kenya around noon (5am at home). so far we have met the staff here and played games with some of the young adults. the flights went well, i slept a lot and didn’t get sick at all (thanks to the Lord and dramamine). we flew from atlanta to d.c., made a pit stop in rome for fuel, changed flights in ethiopia and then came to nairobi. thanks to all who left comments! please pray that our team will feel rested soon. i know there are several who have slept very little in the past three days. chris, i miss you....

Man, there sure is a lot to say, but not much time to say it.  The “Kingdom of God” has always been my where my thoughts lay, my heart dances, and where my God’s words end up in my mouth.  These couple of days, God has been showing me how to use my talents, gifts, attitude, time and words to further the Kingdom in any way I can.Training here in Georgia is so fun.  Trying new foods, learning a whole lot about our relationships with each other, our leaders, and our great and wonderful God.  Pulling into AIM on the bus was so comforting because it was out...

Hello Friends and Family,   When our team met at the Atlanta airport it was so awesome how everyone just clicked together. Right off the bat we had our first shock we were handed an envelope with a note and some money the, the note said to  find a place called the safe house. The safe house is a homeless shelter in Atlanta, little did we know that we were actually going to be staying the night there.   In our first meeting we were told that “the easiest thing to do is nothing.” This meant that anyone can just sit back and not do anything but it really takes...

Our team is an amazing blend of personalities and I know we are all really excited to grow our relationships with each other, our Kenyan friends, and God!  One of our team building tasks yesterday was to create a team mural for our trip. Each mission team made one as a group and right off the start our team started spitting out great ideas. Designs were discussed and changed throughout the process, we chalked our final idea on the canvas and everyone started painting.  It was really cool just sitting back and watching our team work as one body to create something...

I don’t have much time, so I’m going to try to make this quick! In the process of doing so I might skip a lot of details; bear with me! So, Friday afternoon I arrived in ATL. I met my team and figured we’d soon be heading to training camp. Instead we were given $20 and some instructions: get to the 89 Ellis Street, Atlanta GA. The task was simple, but exciting. The excitement of meeting of everyone in person for the first time, taking a train through the amazing city (Yes, I love the city, graffiti and all), and realizing I packed too much stuff as I trekked from location...