Author: Adventures

I think that God has a thing with the name Elizabeth because all of the Elizabeths I have met through our door to door experiences have been glowing with Gods love. The first Elizabeth I met was at Tangi Tatu, we came accross her plowing her songs bean field. She looked to be around 85. WE learned that her husband and son had died in the Election riots a few years back, and her other children rarely visited. The mere gact that people were even talking to her brought a smile to her face. Tears ran down as she explained she rarely got visitors, let alone white ones! We all laid hands on her...

"Everything happens for a reason" is a saying I've heard but never really felt, or even thought much about. Until now. We've spent the past two weeks in Karati with the Kikuyu tribe. The first week was rough and I was questioning what we were doing and if we were really making a difference. I kept letting little things get to me and was stuck in the repetitiveness of the door to door ministry we were doing. Everything started looking worse when I learned that our teammate Ryan was going home. Thats when I started thinking about everything happening for a reason, though. I...

My team has been having incredible experiences in ministry thus far, but I seemed to be missing out on all of them. Reading my Bible one morning, I came across Matthew 17:14-22, which tells of Jesus healing a demon possessed boy because the disciples could not drive it out. When the disciples asked why they could not heal the boy, Jesus replied, “'Because you have so little faith.'” This story made me realize that I hadn't been in the groups when the life-changing events happened because I had so little faith in God's miracles on earth today. So, why would God...