This is our last week in Malawi. I am excited to go…yet…it is bittersweet.   There are things about God everywhere in Lilongwe. Literally. Everywhere. Here are some examples… “99% God’s Plan Mini Shop” “Kingdom Come Barber Shop” “God is Good Bakery” “Jesus Saves Market” “God is Great Restaurant”   The place is saturated with words about God. But the people are not. The people are apathetic and indifferent. Jesus and God are just things that places are named after. There is no...

Top 15 Things Of Malawi:   15. Busting out into song, out of key, ALL THE TIME 14. Getting “Pee Your Pants Excited” over mexican food, pizza, and ice cream.. ‘Murica 13. Opening the bathroom door on one of your teammates… twice, same girl 12. Doing your laundry once within an entire month when you only have one week worth of clothes 11. Going days without a shower and not even questioning it 10. Killing cockroaches.. and the screaming that goes along with it 9. Rice, potatoes, and starches OH MY! 8. Being crammed into a mini-bus meant for 12...

“Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, The Lord will be my light.” –Micah 7:8   Last summer, I said this verse while sitting by the still lake, in the middle of the night. It was so dark and the moon was nowhere to be seen. As I finished saying, “the Lord will be my light,” some clouds moved out of the way of the moon, and everything was light. In a moment like that the only thought I can think is, “How stupid have I been? That I used to question wheter there was a God… How...

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...

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...

Journal Entry 01/30/2013   God, Thank You: -for every seed you will plant through me -for giving me amazing girls to do this ministry with -for reminding me that I have people that love and support me -for showing me that your love can be and is unconditional -lastly, thank you for chasing after me even when I wanted to run as far as I could away; in a moment when I stumble, you pick me up and tell me, “You are still mine.”   I am in a place right now that, even though I want to go home, I know I am supposed to be here. Before this journal entry I...