I'll never forget the night I was laying in my tent about to start crying because I just wanted to go home. I had taken out my headphones & heard one of my teammates scream. I listened a little longer & they told everyone to come outside. So we all did & we looked up & there were the stars. I litterally have never seen anything so beautiful in my life. There were so many… They were so close… They looked like sparkly diamonds.    God then showed me how big he really is. The BIG God that planted every single one of those stars in the sky that...

   My home is heaven because that is where my heart is.  This thought dawned on me the other night.  I mean I had thought about it before, but it hit me in a new way.  My home is heaven!  It does not matter where in the world I am.  I am not really any more at home in the United States than I am in Kenya.    Sure “my family” lives in the United States but really I have family everywhere.  I am part of God’s family, and I am continually meeting more family members.  I rejoice when a new brother or sister is born into...

   Oh what fun we had!  We spent two weeks in the bush of Kenya.  At first our team was a little uncertain of what was happening and why we were in the middle of no where sleeping in tents and using a squatty.  However as we pulled away on Monday, we found ourselves already missing our new friends.    It is so amazing how God works.  As we traveled from hut-to-hut each day sharing the gospel and praying with people, we got to see God at work.  We asked, and God answered.  We asked for rain.  It rained!  We asked for healing....

My Papa is a 76-year-old servant. An immigrant from Germany who has spent his life serving God in the most simple of ways, but his simplicity has added many to the Kingdom.  I have learned from my Papa that I can serve God just by giving someone a hamburger or a ride to a store. My Papa has a special place in my heart and that place has been the key to open a special door in my heart: the elderly. Any time I see an elderly person, I just see my Papa. I see his little stature, his gray beard, the little shuffle he has when he walks, his smile, the crinkle in his eyes when he giggles,...

After touring the little town of Kijabe we were taken to the hospital to look around. Jessica (a girl who came to Kenya last year with AIM & now is back serving in the hospital) showed us a girl that God has just put on her heart, to love & to bless. This little, precious girl’s name is Judy, she is 10. Her family abandoned her after years of isolations & she had lesions on her face. After they were removed she ended up losing her sight. AT THE AGE OF TEN.   We were actually looking at her through a window. There was someone in the room with her telling her that we...

1 Corinthians 10:23 “Everything is permissible but not everything is beneficial.”   This verse has kept me awake for hours, just pondering the things in my life that are permissible but not beneficial. Jessica is a woman who went on a trip with AIM a few years ago and has come to Kijabe for a month to work in the hospital. The other night she told me this verse and my head has been trying to wrap itself around this verse since then.   Think about it. So many things in our life we can say are permissible, or allowed, but are they really beneficial? Do they help us to...