Author: Adventures

I'm in India. It's hard. But it's good. God is teaching me a lot.    After finishing our work on adoption papers and sewing clothes for the kids, we have been working in the special needs orphanage for about a week and a half now. A woman who works at the orphanage went around showing us the different orphans who need some extra help, love, and care. I picked a big (about 10 years old) boy named Master. Master doesn't walk. Doesn't talk. Doesn't focus his eyes. He lays in bed/sits in a chair all day with flies buzzing around him constantly. The first day I...

This week my heart has been completely and totally destroyed for the kingdom, and probably had one of the hardest days of my entire life.  The beginning of the week we finished our sewing project, thank goodness. I was so ready to get out of the house, and love on some kids. We got out assignment for Wednesday through Saturday, to get paired with a child and just love on them as well as help him or her with their physical therapy if it is needed.  We get to Victory House and as usual the kids swarmed us. Jillian, the physical therapist, walked us through the rooms to pair us up...

Let me start by praising God because He is so cool and altogether wonderful. I'm still in India, it's still hot, ankles are still scandalous, and I still love it. This is without a doubt one of the sweetest times I've ever spent with God, one of the favorite times in my life. Thank You, Jesus, for Your overwhelming company and smile. Over the past two weeks, our team has finished the adoption application papers for all of the children here! How Kingdom come is that? A couple of children already have some families looking at them, which brings my heart to smile and sing. He is a...

So I have reached the halfway mark for my time here in India…. Wait what?! I can't believe that I have been here for 3 weeks and that's only have something like 34 days left. It seems unbelievable. It has flown by so fast and I think that a part of my heart will always live in India because of it. One of my teammates here in India has a tattoo. It's a big old fashioned compass with the German word FERNWAY written underneath it, and when I asked her what it meant she said that it is a word that means to be homesick for a place you have never been before. And I may have...

If you feel like you're a bad musicaian/singer than this is a blog for you! It says in Psalms to "make a joyful noise". What it doesn't say is that that joyful does not mean good quality.Being a musician is one of the most difficult lessons I have been learning for the past 6 years of my life.    Last Sunday a group of us went to church. What I was imagining was rows of chairs, an altar and a worship band of some type.What I got was a whole bunch of entergetic kids, exhausted ladies, a few instruments, and everyone in a  circle. To me this seemed like...

This week has been a really challenging one for my team. We've battled some serious sickness, lots of dehydration, intense spiritual warfare, sleepless nights, and a broken air conditioning. We've spent a lot of time in prayer and worship trying to regain the strength this week took out of us. But today, being our Sabbath, we were rewarded.  There's a French bakery in town called Caramel. The owner is a great guy who spent 4 years living in my hometown of Sugar Land, TX! We eat there on occasion and have made pretty good friends with him. He spoils us with cheese pizza,...