Author: Adventures

Hope For the Hopeless

Malawi has been such a great experience and I can’t believe we’re almost finished here. Crazy! We’ve been able to teach Bible stories and songs to the kids from the villages, we’ve taught classes at an orphanage school, and we’ve even had the opportunity to worship and hear stories from some women at the widow’s ministry. All these things may seem like simple tasks, but they’ve all had big impacts on my life. Not only does God work when we are doing scheduled ministry, but He also works in amazing ways when we’re at home, when we’re...

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I got a Crush…

The Lord has shattered my soul, my world collided with its self and I found myself lost and confused. But the amazing God I serve and find peace in was there, He cradled my weeping spirit and mended it new. I looked to Him for joy, I looked at Him to bring me out of this sadness, and He did!    As I found joy and light again, I also I found myself falling in love. The head over heals, giggle and tell my friends about it, complete happiness and joy kind of love. I am giddy because I know that He loves me more than I can begin to fathom. He literally died so I could live with...

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Too Real For Reality TV

Alright well here it is: the raw truth of my experience.   We have all just been thrown into battle with the devil. Not metaphorically either. A literal battle. A spiritual battle.   I have been putting off this blog post for about a week now. I felt like I needed to process what happened before I go telling my story. To be “okay” with what I had experienced but I’m not okay. In fact I’m completely confused. There is still so much about it that I can’t understand or how or why or WHAT?!?!   But that’s one of the biggest...

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A New Familiar

I’m going on four weeks here in Lilongwe, Malawi and really enjoying it. At first I was a little hard getting used to not always having running water and limited cooking supplies but the people we have met and relationships we are making are well worth only taking a shower once a week 🙂   So far we have taught classes at an orphanage and spent time worshiping and sharing stories with a group of widows. Also spending time ministering at some local churches that are apart of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Malawi.    God has really been revealing a lot of...

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Heart of Steel or Just Something Different

It’s all around us. Trash, children, murky water, corn stalks, chickens, mini buses, pungent odors, street vendors, people shouting…..   Life in Malawi.   I’ve watched my team take in the poverty. I’ve seen them close their eyes to shut it out. I’ve seen them weep over it.   I’ve seen all these emotions. Yet, I could feel none of them.   The poverty here is no different than any other third world country. It is heart wrenching, but it is the same. I tried to cry for the child with no parents crawling along the street...

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I’m Not Shaking, I’m Not Letting Go

Maureen.   She is a beautiful older woman here in Malawi. Our first week of being here, her daughter was in the hospital and we prayed for her, she was healed.    The other day she came up to us because she wanted prayer to be closer and stronger in her relationship with Christ. We prayed for her. She went stiff. Something inside of her didn’t want us touching her.    Her arms were locked and completely stiff, her hands were bent in an unnatural position. She was not in control. We didn’t let go. Everything inside of me was telling me to...

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