Love. Joy. Peace. Patience. Kindness. Goodness. Gentleness. Faithfulness. Self-control.   ^ Against these things there is no law.   If there is one thing that God has laid on my heart on this trip, it's these things.  Weird for a mission trip, right? Galatians 5:19-26 "19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild...

So, Africa. Where do I even begin.  I’ve been here for almost 2 months, so here’s what I’ve been up to.  When we first arrived, we spent a couple days with our contact, Pastor Simon, touring our “home” city, Kijabe.  Kijabe is becoming my favorite place in the world. When you’re here, you feel like you’re on a tropical island, not the middle of Africa.  There is a branch of African Inland Church (Kijabe Mission), a boarding school for missionary children (Rift Valley Academy), a missions hospital, and a hospital for children with...

For the past two weeks or so, our team has been back in Kijabe, getting used to the ministry here.  We still have one more tribe to go to on Thursday for two weeks, but until then we will be working in the hospital.  We didn't really know what to expect when we went to the hospital the first day, and while we were sitting in the Chaplain's office the only thing we really got was that we would be evangelizing to patients without a translator.  Sounds…fun.   We split off into teams and went to our assigned corridors.  I was lucky enough to be placed in...

Well we’ve spent the last two weeks in Kithe and Nkubu one week in each and both in the Meru district. We stayed at an orphanage/church in Kithe doing door to door ministry. Now since we are sixteen in number we will usually split into groups according to how many translators we have. For the first two days we had a translator/preacher by the name of Titus who was on fire on wanting to share the gospel to people. So pretty much everyone we came across we would share something or pray for them. Once again the people there are very hospitable, always very welcoming and giving us tea or...

My day was spent at doing ministry in the mens, womens, and pediatric wards at the AIC Hospital in Kijabe.   My day yesterday, I was working in the kitchen, helping them with various tasks, as well as serving tea and porridge in the mens and womens wards. Serving tea? Not exactly something I thought of as ministry…   Anyway, yesterday was not the day I enjoyed most, ministry wise, but today has been awesome. Three of us from my team, Alissa, Janet Marie, and myself, went and prayed over the different rooms in the three wards we visited this morning. We didn't...

Okay, So I'll be totally honest. These past couple of weeks weren't easy for me. I was struggling with my purpose here in Africa, dealing with my mom being sick back home. Day to day I would struggle with the fact of not knowing what my purpose Is. The feeling of being useless. Frustrated with the language barriers with our translators. Feeling like our words weren't being translated all the way, feeling like our translators taking the spot light on preaching the word. Leaving us feeling like "Uh, hello? Why are we here if you can just talk to them and tell them about...