Author: Adventures

A spiritual word. God has been showing me intimacy with Jesus Christ. I’ve always known God is real and that Jesus loves us all, but I got a better understanding of the depth of intimacy Jesus wants with me and others, last week. I’m blown away by how God has been showing me that He is a relentless God. He will go after every person’s heart that doesn’t know Him until they even get a glimpse of understanding of how much he wants them to live their lives with the joy, peace, and fulfillment that only Christ gives. I feel like I’ve heard too many generic things...

I was looking out at the beautiful Arabian Sea literally 100 meters from where we are a majority of the day. And along the shore there walked a man and his little daughter.  The man kept trying to hold his daughter’s hand, but she refused to take it and walked a little ways away.  The father walked after her and when he got close, he offered her his hand again, and again the little girl refused to take it, and ran ahead.  The father stood and watched his daughter run ahead for a little while and then he followed after her and again tried to persuade his daughter to take...

Hello all, Hope you guys are doing well!! Right now we are in Goa, India working in a specific slum each day. There are many different things that are going on in this slum. First, there is a man who is starting up a clinic. It’s been open for about 2 weeks now so there is a lot that needs to be done to organize how it will be ran. The building that was available for the clinic is a small cement building, but there has been a lot of use out of it so far. Secondly, in the clinic, there is a nutrition program for the little kids and then for the women in the community. Here, many people...

All i’ve wanted since we got to India was to just get started working with the women and children of Goa. Finally a week after landing, we did! After taking two crowed, hot, and smelly buses, we arrived at the community where we’ll be working the next two months.   As soon as we set foot on the ground, we were surrounded by kids, running up to us with huge smiles and open hands shouting “good morning teacher, good morning teacher”. All wanting to shake your hand and give you hugs. They are so hungry for attention and love; there are never enough hugs, piggy...

It’s definitely a different culture, from women and men seeming to associate only when married or buying things to the beautiful jewelry for less than a dollar.  A few things have initially caught my eye: Their medians are made up of cows sun bathing in the road. Their food is very tasty. The women are unbelievably beautiful and kind. Washed clothes are impossible to dry during monsoon weather. Everything is colorful. We consider ourselves lucky when we find toilets with toilet paper (so yes, we bring our own; we will keep some things from our own culture :)), sometimes I...