Author: Adventures

Early this morning after breakfast, we were going through the orphan folders, reading and placing their pictures with their folders. As I was reading most of them I would glance at the picture and read a little bit, feeling sorry and wanting to do something. But as I was flipping through I came across this folder with Freddie and Felix's name on it. These two little boys live behind Bishop's house (where we are staying), we have played and really hav gotten to know them well. Freddie reminds me so much of me when I was a little kid. He is always smiling and he has this amazing...

On Wednesday night, just before we were supposed to start our second revival meeting, there was a storm and we lost power. The following is an excerpt from journal before I went to bed: "Bishop asked us to go to the church and pray for power to return. He said that if it did, he wanted us to continue with service, and if not then to go back to the house. Well, we went. and we prayed. In the church. In the dark. At first nothing happened. The Lord laid it on my heart to sing "The Heart of Worship." The first two lines say "When the music fades and all is stripped away /...

After two days of traveling on planes and going through airports, we finally made it to Nairobi on June 9th, my birthday. Before getting on a 13 hour bus ride to Mpeketoni, we were able to go out and explore downtown Nairobi. As we set out for our adventure, we exchanged our American dollars into shillings and set out to find the marketplace in the middle of downtown. As we were moving forward, deeper into the middle of downtown, this man approached us asking us if we were looking for the marketplace, (knowing that we were tourists because we were the only light colored skin for miles)....

A story from the night we drove to the bus station in Nairobi; an excerpt from my journal: “Our mutatu taxi shows up 30 minutes late and we start our journey to the bus station in the city. First of all, we were all crammed in there. It was kind of crazy. We got a couple of good pictures of it though. So then we’re just riding along being amazed and scared by all of the insane driving when all of a sudden some guy running by opens my window and tries to grab my purse! Thank goodness it was wrapped around my neck! I screamed, closed the window, and definitely cried a little. It...