When I was 18, I didn’t want to get a summer job. So, I spent the whole summer in the slums of India with a group of strangers. We ate together, served our neighbors together, prayed together, laughed together, and just did life together. When you don’t have air conditioning, wifi, or consistent electricity in…
Read moreQuitting Foster Care
If I admitted every single time I wanted to throw in the towel on being a foster parent, It would be insanely embarrassing. Simply put I know some people have the tolerance and patience of a saint and I am nothing like them. When a case is stagnant and it feels like no one cares that…
Read moreMy “best” days
We get so bogged down in life with bad days and bad moments. I was talking to a friend today and was challenged to compile a list of what I would consider my best days on earth. As of today, I have been on planet Earth for 10,790 days. It was really cool to sit…
Read moreKourtney–The Very Worst Missionary
I was sitting with a friend recently reflecting on life and the past summer and the future. She asked me about Guatemala, which led to Zambia, which led to India. It made me sit further and just reflect on how God worked on my heart and changed me in different ways on those different journeys….
Read moreZambia Chronicles 4-Community
Written on July 19th, 2016. Livingstone, Zambia Living with 25 other people is hard. Flat out. We have 22 mazungu’s and 4 hosts. That is 26 different kinds of personalities, backgrounds, passions, quirks, pet peeves, sleeping habits, and everything in between. Let me tell you…it isn’t easy. In fact today, community is down right hard….
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