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Don’t Be Down BK

February 16, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

Yesterday my group, which consisted of Kristen, Katie, and Hailey B., visited about eight houses for our door-to-door ministry in Nkubu. The first two houses we visited, I felt that I was having a hard time really communicating, through the translator, what it is that I wanted to say. This difficulty led me to feel discouraged. If there is one thing that this experience in Kenya, so far, has taught me, it is to pray when I am feeling discouraged. It is to pray when I know that I am having a difficult time maintaining patience with people, a situation,...

Strangers

February 14, 2012
Adventures
Admissions Department

What does it mean to be a stranger on earth ( Psalms 119:19) ? I got a message from one of my old squad leaders from the race, who had gotten a psalm and word for me in month 10 on the race but just got around to giving it to me. Which go figure was in fact the absolutely perfect timing for me to receive it. She gave me Psalm 119, and a list of the things that the Lord had highlighted for me when she had read it, and they were all spot on. I then read it for myself and as I was reading I came across verse 19 and stopped. The words struck something in me that left me mesmerized...

Only Through Prayer

February 12, 2012
Adventures
Admissions Department

And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:17-18 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three...

5 things I’ve learned and observed

February 9, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

These are just five basic things I learned while living in Tangi ta tu. 1. White clothes will NEVER be white again. 2. Thank God i'm not a donkey. 3. Thank God for aloe vera plants. 4. Never let the girls here do your hair. Whatever you think is hair gel. Trust me it's NOT. 5. Cows look into your soul.

This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it.

I’ve been gone for almost a month now, and so much has happened in that time. I’ve eaten my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches next to chickens, cows, goats and sheep; watched donkeys carry our water from a river; heard the voices of African school children praising God in Swahili; been covered in dust; watched our tent get completely turned over by a dust tornado; read Scripture to the downhearted; brushed my teeth next to a herd of grazing cattle; received a new Maasai name and a new Swahili name; walked several miles a day evangelizing from hut to hut; picked out...

Story Time!

February 9, 2012
Adventures
General Posts

When doing hut to hut evangelism, we are often invited into the hut to pray over the home and the family living there. It was a few days before we left the first tribe (Tangi Ta Tu) and we were told that there was a very sick woman in the next hut who heard we were there and begged us to come pray for her. We made our way to her hut and soon realized that it was much too small a house for all of us to enter. I volunteered to go in along with one of my team mates. We walked into the house and it was pitch black; I literally couldn't see my own hand held out in front of me. I used my...

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