Author: Adventures

I’m in complete amazement of all the things that God is teaching and showing me. I am constantly humbled by how little I really need in order to get  by. When I think about the American lifestyle verses the African lifestyle I’m shocked at how much we take for granted. Yet, at the same time I am reminded of how little we need. It’s definitely eye opening to live simply. It makes you really appreciate what you have and allows you to realize how truly blessed we really are. As Americans, we’ve learned the ways of the world, but not the ways of God. In fact,...

  Ephesians 5:1-2 “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Every Wednesday my team and I visit the Kijabe hospital to minister and encourage patients in various wards. Last Wednesday, I had the privilege to meet a young mother, Miriam, and her son Erick. Erick has been experiencing stomach problems since he was nine months old, and since then, he has been in and out of hospitals visiting with various doctors trying to determine the cause...

Most recently I’m learning what it means to have a servants’ heart. Not just within the walls of our community, but how we can better serve the people that we are ministering to. What does it look like to be a servant of Christ? I was reading 1 John 2:5-6 “But if anyone obeys his word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in him. ‘Whoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did.’ “ That verse spoke powerfully about how we who claim to live in him MUST walk as Jesus did. My first thought was where do I start? The...

This past Friday we had a day off and of course we didn’t want to spend it resting so we decided that we would go climb a mountain to see water falls. There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is everybodys safe even though we had some crazy situations. The bad news is that we didn’t make to the water falls but we did make it to the top of the mountain. I don’t doubt that we will try it again and next time we will get there. Here are some pictures of the journey. It was alot of team building when we weren’t even realizing it.     ...

 Jenna Johnson and I have been working with the Somalians every Wednesday and Thursdays in the hospital. They are Muslims who come from a country who has been in war for the last 20 years. Many travel with absolutely nothing, we even met a lady who travelled 12 days just to treat her baby son and has no identification whatsoever besides now the hospital bill. The language is hard, and the difference in beliefs is even harder. It truly has to be the work of the Spirit in us to do anything and I personally have been struggling with expressing an overwhelming amount of love on these...

  God has placed this vision in the group about doing something greater in the IDP (International Displaced People) Camps; something that will be lasting, something that will bring the Kingdom of God down to that place after we leave in 2 months. When you go to this place there is no hope; these people have no hope of getting out and you can feel the despair when you get there. It is almost as if they are there for the food and that is it. So our group sat down and prayed about the vision that God has for this place. And we knew that it was something greater than going there every...