In college, I had a friend that decided she didn’t want to be my friend anymore. It was literally overnight and very unexpected. It was painful. It was hard. I literally felt sick to my stomach. That was the first real friendship I lost. I can’t describe how I felt. I was filled with hurt…
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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….
Read moreZambia Chronicles 3-Courage
20 seconds of Courage When Sanderson walked out into the living room and told us we would be going to a neighborhood and doing evangelism, I got slightly nervous. I’m a natural introvert so being dropped off in a neighborhood for straight up evangelism was terrifying. We prayed for boldness and courage and away we…
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Written July 14th, 2016 Livingstone, Zambia Last night, I prayed that I would see God in my day. Just see him. It is so easy for me to get caught up in life that I just miss him. I prayed that I would be less blinded by my daily checklists and see HIM around me….
Read moreZambia Chronicles 1-The Forgotten Four
written July 8th, 2016 Livingstone, Zambia This morning we visited a village called Makumba. We packed into the vehicles and I’m not sure anyone was sure what to expect. We drove around an hour and the further we went the anticipation grew. As soon as we pulled off the main road, we were driving around…
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