Adventures – Page 58

Giving it up

Greetings from Nairobi on our off day! The past two weeks consisted of a variety of ministries. Two weeks ago we spent a week in an IDP camp helping out a medical team from America. I got to play pharmacist for a week which was great because that's what I wanted to do in 11th grade. Then I took chemistry and realized that such a vigorous education should not be required to count pills. I'm living proof that you can be horrible at high school chemistry and still be a pharmacist. Anyway, this past week was spent in the Masai village. We definitely had our work cut out for us there....

Kindness Like No Other

This past week was spent by my team at Moi Ndabi, a village in African bush land. Some may think going in the mission field you might not always get enought to eat… This is not always the case. Numerous times this week my team and I ended up having more than the typical 3 meals a day and many cups of chai tea! The people here in this village were so kind and thankful to us outsiders as predomintly white american missionarys. Dinner Friday night was sheep. A man meet earlier this week by some of us during ministry felt led to donate us a whole live sheep from his herd....

A Heart Broken

July 4, 2011
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Visions

This is Africa. It is a saying very common here. A saying that means what you see is what you get. That “it is what it is”. Well I will not accept that. Not for one second. As you may well know, this place needs help. And it needs people ready to join the fight to help. People willing to get dirty and not watch from the sidelines anymore. These people here are poor. On average, they live off of maybe 1000 shillings a week. That is a little under 10 American dollars. And this is just the few who work. Most people make their living by waking up everyday and working the fields....

Lessons learned.

This week has been chalk full of lessons, all of which will effect the way I live the rest of my life! It would be near impossible to write about everything I’ve learned but here are a couple highlights! Shalom School: This week several of us ventured to a school/living facility for ten disabled children and young adults. In Africa people with disabilities are not only thought of as weird, but shunned from society. This explains why one boy’s parents dropped him off in the woods to die. Another boy, David, we found lying in his own urine because he is unable to walk so he crawls...

Fellow Workers for the Truth

I have enjoyed very much being a part of all these peoples lives so far for these short two months. My name is Jonathan Beckman and I am the leader, along with Logan, for the Kenya, Mombasa (Mpeketoni) trip. I was on the World Race, an 11 month trip with Adventures In Missions (AIM), prior to this trip. I was at the end of my race, in the last month before going home, when I decided to lead with AIM for this trip now. It was a tough decision to make because I knew that I wouldn't be able to spend a lot of time back home with my family and friends, but I...

He WAS a Muslim

A couple of weeks ago Lynden, Ari, and I with our translator Caleb were walking through the town trying to build relationships with the people here. We walked past a man sitting in front of his barbershop, we stopped and shook his hand and asked if we could talk with him. HIS NAME WAS ESSA. He seemed reluctant to speak with us at first and asked if we could meet later in a different location. There was a strange understanding between us all about what we would talk about later. We knew that he was a Muslim but we never mentioned that we were Christians and that’s what we wanted to...

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