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Mzungu! Mzungu!

Mzungu=white person in Swahili. Everywhere our team goes, we hear shouts of Mzungu! Mzungu! from small children. You can always count on everyone, including adults, shouting "HOW ARE YOU!" to us mzungus. Once a response is given, they simply giggle and run away. Many children may only have one or two pairs of worn shoes and will save them for special occasions, like church or holidays, yet they have such an abundance of joy. One little girl I met in Tangi Tatu had about twenty flies swarming her face, but her smile was the biggest and brightest I have ever seen. This brightened...

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...

Joy

February 9, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

ahhhh day 23 in Kenya! We are at our 2nd location here and i love it it is so green and plenty of yummy mangoes!!! At our first house they gave us many mangoes and then later brought us a whole bag back to our camp needless to say i got my fare share of mangoes! I have never seen people so joyful in my life and have such a love for God always praising His name no matter what the sitiuation is that is in front of them! I have learned here how blessed i am and that i will decided to sing God's name no matter what. Back in the Maasi tribe there was a lady by the name of hannah that was 90...

Open the Floodgates of Heaven

February 9, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

"I can hear the rhythm of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah. God, You are so near! My heart beats to Your rhythm, a constantly increasing sound. My King is returning! Though when, I'm not quite sure. Father, wrap me in Your arms! Hold me close to Your chest. Your love is a river, no, an ocean that swallows me whole! You overwhelm me with Your goodness and gentleness. You deal with me with infinite grace. You, oh God, are my King! Return for us Father!" I journaled this when I arrived at the first tribe, the Maasai village of Tangi Tatu near...

Pinch me, I’m in Africa!

Dust tornadoes, long walks in the sun, mastering the art of the squatty(hole in the ground we use for a bathroom). These were all just a few of the unexpected inclusions of our 2 weeks with the Masai Tribe. Some people would look at these activites as a burden, and I'm not gonna lie…after the first 5 miles I began to become weary. But one night our team took the time to worship the Lord together and I was reminded in a song: "Whatever's in front of me, help me to sing Hallelujah. Whatever's in front of me, I'll choose to sing Hallelujah". This was exactly...

tornadoes ,dirt and fire oh my

February 3, 2012
Adventures
Life on the Field

AHHHH so it has been 2 weeks here in Kenya and we have been with the Massai tribe. i have only showered once and have taken a couple bucket bathes. i have learned that my white t shirts will always have a nice brown tint to them and that dirt has permenatly stained my skin. i have been in 98 degrees weather during the day and 37 at night…my body is adjusting well haha. beans and rice is my new favorite! i have also survived a dirt storm/ tornadoe! that ripped our tent onto the church building and bent the poles of my tent. But while here God has been so good to us, i have never met a...

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Mzungu! Mzungu!

Story Time!

Joy

Open the Floodgates of Heaven

Pinch me, I’m in Africa!

tornadoes ,dirt and fire oh my

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