Author: Adventures

Final Days in Africa…

Hello everyone, Our time here in Kenya is almost over. We only have 2 more weeks left, so this is probably my last blog. Its sad to think that were going to be leaving all the friends we’ve made and the relationships we have built both at the hospital and especially the IDP camp, but, it’s exciting to be able to see everyone back home, and take a shower every day… The weeks here in Kenya have been really amazing and I have learned so much. I have talked to more people and heard more stories this trip than I have my entire life. It’s really amazing to see people...

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Kwaheri Kijabe!

Hello Friends and Family! I’m sitting here completely dumbfounded that my time in Kenya is coming to an end… didn’t I get here like a week ago? I just can’t believe it. But, I also can’t believe how God has used this time to completely flip my world upside down and I am SO excited to be able to go home and tell everyone how He has grown me in the past few months. Needless to say, this will probably be my last blog in “the pride of Africa” a.k.a. Kenya, and my mind is going a million different directions trying to think of the right words to say, but...

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Reflections

Hello from Kenya, as the trip is quickly waning this will probably be one of my last blogs, so I guess I’ll just share how the my time in Kenya has gone. This was definitely the best thing I could have done this semester, it has been an incredible experience. I am sad that it is ending so soon, and that I will have to say goodbye to the friends I have made here, but I know God will be with all of us. The most convicting thing has been going to the IDP camp twice a week. The people have so little, they were forcefully displaced from their homes and sent to live in tents out in the...

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Why have I stopped breathing?

  Why have I stopped breathing? Sometimes God makes things happen that we don’t understand.  I don’t know why little babies die after fighting for their life for nearly four months.  I have no idea why He allows kids to be sick and in so much pain.  It doesn’t make any sense. I don’t have all the answers, and I don’t think anyone does but God. I do know though that He loves us… He loves us so much.  He gives the kids so much joy even though they may be suffering and it’s awesome to see their smiling faces! I...

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Our God is healer!!!

As our time here in Kenya is coming to an end, and I probably won’t be able to write another blog post, I thought I would end on a story that has truly changed the way I view God! A few weeks ago I met Amos, in the Bethany Kids wing of the hospital. I was handing out Chi and just kept going about my business. In the afternoon I was able to go back and visit with him and find out more about him. It turns out that he had broken his leg and the boarding school he was at didn’t tell his mom for about a month causing him to not be able to go and get it fixed. He said that he had to...

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This is What it Means to be Held

Week #3:  10-06-2010This is What it Means to be Held…. “We’re asking why this happens to us who have died to live. It’s unfair. But….This is what it means to be held, how it feels when the sacred is torn from your life and you survive. This is what it is to be loved and to know that the promise was when everything fell….we’d be held. ….If hope is born of suffering; If this is only the beginning, can we not wait for one hour waiting for our Savior?”  -Natalie Grant,  “Held”     If we’re...

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