Author: Adventures

I just spoke with Pastor Simon, our host in Kenya, and the team is doing really well.  Unfortunately they haven’t had internet yet, thus no blogs have been posted.  Upon arrival into Kijabe they went immediately out to do ministry in the bush, with the Masaai tribe for a week.  They’re diving right in and getting a quick immersion into Kenyan culture!  Pastor Simon said that things are going really well and that the team is even able to follow up with some of the relationships that past Real Life teams built.  We look forward to when they’re able...

Hello family and friends of Team Kenya.  We just wanted to let you know that we received a call from the leaders and the team has made it safely to Kenya.  They are with their host in Kijabe and all is well. We look forward to hearing from them in a few days once they get settled in.  Thank you for your prayers and support for them.  

Hello, We finally leave tomorrow for africa, which is pretty exciting, but i’ll give a quick recap of what has happened so far. We arrived in Atlanta and almost immediately went out onto the streets to just be with the homeless people. I was expecting to be talking to dozens of them, so when we walked around for several hours having only one meaningful conversation I was a little disappointed. After my groups debrief I realized this is what the trip is going to be like, long hours, a lot of walking, just for the chance to talk to one person.    We only stayed in Atlanta one...

My first couple days of training camp have been full of many new experiences. From rolling my two suitcases down the streets of Atlanta, to being spit in the face by the “natives” we were attempting to evangelize to, its been real fun to say the least.  One of our first true tasks at training camp though was to go out and evangelize to people on the streets. It was really the first challenge we had to start stepping out of our boxes and doing things most of our group had never done before.  We were split up into small groups and eventually given a dollar that we...