Author: Adventures

Weakness or Strength? Maybe both…

I bring glad tidings of good news and great joy! I didn’t die when I spoke to the students Thursday! I didn’t trip and fall on my face, or lose track of my words… I just let the Holy Spirit do what He does best: speak God’s love and grace in our lives.   I shared Jeremiah 24 with them. Most of you probably know that story, but I will summarize it anyways. This is the time after Jehoiakim’s son and officials and craftsmen had been sent into exile from Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Get all that? Alright. So God uses a story about two baskets...

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Unlikely

In the morning I wake up early to the sound of car horns and Hindi music and stray dogs; 75 degrees and usually pretty breezy.  I walk outside, and talk to my Indian neighbors in broken English, and then go eat things for breakfast that I can’t even pronounce.  I make my way around the streets of this third-world city flooded with color and noise and busyness like it’s my job.  I am 100% a minority here, and just about everywhere I go I could easily count at least 86453948603 big brown intrigued eyes staring intently at me.  I guess white people don’t...

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The Picture of Jesus

Last Monday we were able to prayer walk here for the first time. Prayer walking is hands down, one of my favorite things to do. You really get to take in the culture and the people around you. August, one of the guys who works at the Asha House, came with us. We weren’t going to be walking in the safest of surroundings, so August was there to look out for us and to translate as well, since everyone speaks either Bengali or Hindi. We walked along the slums that were right behind our street, their living conditions remind me of how blessed I am. The road was so narrow; we...

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Jesus Stuff

Week 4. We are in a routine, finally getting comfortable. Maybe too comfortable? Yeah, let’s start there. I can only speak for myself, but that is how it was for me last week, until Sunday afternoon.  A few things that have made me almost “too comfortable.”  1. Our steady routine.  2. Our frequent down time. 3. The way that Pastor and his family treat us.  Our steady routine is nice, because the days go by so quickly. However, at the same time, I started to get dependent on the routine and become almost reliant on it. We have worship every night...

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words.

The last three weeks of my life have been nothing but a whirlwind of adventure. To see the way that the Lord has transformed my heart even over the last few weeks has been absolutely incredible. My words cannot even being to explain what I have experienced or what the Lord has been doing here in Calcutta, but here’s my best attempt at doing so: Training camp was an awesome time to spend time with my team and to get to know them. I am so thankful for the way that AIM taught us about overseas missions and equipped us for what we were going to experience together. I cannot believe that...

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