I still need to raise $1500 for this trip and I really need your help.  Please, I am asking you to help support me financially.  It is super easy to do just click on SUPPORT ME link on this page…

We have been working a couple of times a week with an organization called Smile Africa which is devoted to feeding starving children.  From the very first time that I visited, I was greeted and have become attached to this…

I feel right now like I am clashing between realities; between what has been real for me for the past seven months and the reality of going home to a completely new reality.  We were at church on Sunday and…

So, I don’t really know how to put into words the craziness of life in Africa.  If I had to sum up this past week and a half I can only think of a whirlwind of emotions, changes, hellos, goodbyes,…

We are soldiers; its behind all of our eyes.  It is a frustrating position to hold because we are the chosen ones, chosen to fight injustice, chosen honorably because we are strong enough to fight, but with that our eyes…

  When I signed up on this trip, I had every intention of going to Africa and coming back with a plaque in honor of all the “good Christian points” that I had earned being missionary and changing the world…

The next day, we had the afternoon off due to some “technical difficulties” and so one of the girls on my team and I decided to go for a walk.  We were joined by one of the guys that we…

“Perhaps this is the truest barometer of genuine faith; any parrot can be taught to say ‘Lord’, but acting out a belief in a God who cares for the ‘least’ and who rewards his followers for serving them is the…

“Perhaps this is the truest barometer of genuine faith; any parrot can be taught to say ‘Lord’, but acting out a belief in a God who cares for the ‘least’ and who rewards his followers for serving them is the…