Author: Adventures

 It’s been some weeks now and we’ve spent most of our time here in Kijabe working at the hospital. Some of us have some training in some areas like physical and speech therapy and counseling and they have helped out in those respective areas. Me, I’ve been getting to work in the kitchen. First day we just jumped right in, they handed me off to one of the guys there named Joseph who has now become my best friend there; he’s been working at the hospital for about fifteen years now, speaks seven different languages, English and the rest different tribal ones....

Recently, my team and I had the privilege of visiting IDP camps, bringing food to them, visiting them, worshipping with them and sharing God’s Word.  IDP (Internally Displaced People) camps are filled with people who were kicked out of their homes about four years ago and are now forced to live in small tents.  Long story short, during the elections four years ago, tribalism flared up.  About 50 tribes live in Kenya.  While these tribes often get along, during the elections, things can get tense since which tribe has power can affect which tribe gets favored for...

It took me going to another country, halfway across the world to realize just how big of a deal the United States of America is.  Walking through the bush of Maasai land I would constantly hear, “You are from America?? OBAMA??” To which we would typically just nod and say, “Yes, America, Obama, etc”.  Then I realized that more often than not, our encounters with people ended with them saying how much they wanted to come to America and visit us (but really, just to come to America).  The goal of a good parent here is to get their child to go to...

If you read my last blog, you’ll know that hospital work is way out of my comfort zone. Well, God likes to break us out of those comfort zones so we can grow in ways we would’ve never chosen without His direction. This past Monday the preschool I usually work at was closed, so I proceeded to head over to the AIC Kijabe Hospital. Performing arts major, Holly, brought her ukulele, and J.M., Jenna and I accompanied in song. We went from room to room, trying to bring a little joy to tough situations. A favorite was “Party In the USA”-how ironic. One of the rooms we sang...

Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Gentleness. Faithfulness. Self-control.   ^ Against these things there is no law.   If there is one thing that God has laid on my heart on this trip, it's these things.  Weird for a mission trip, right? Galatians 5:19-26 "19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild...