Two weeks into my time into my time in India, there is so much running through my mind. While there is much beauty here, there is also great poverty. To be honest, it is difficult for me to distinguish between the “slums” we are working in and the rest of the cities and villages we visit. Between the bright colors and shy smiles from the women on the streets, lies much heartbreak. I was expecting a “honeymoon” period with my time in India, but I have apparently skipped that part. Instead, I have been smacked in the face with the unfortunate reality that these people...

The story of the tortoise and the hare has been on my mind quite a bit lately. If you don’t remember your Aesop’s Fables it is alright, I wouldn’t  if not for my preschool teaching this week. 🙂 In the story, the tortoise starts the race slowly and the hare bounds off. The hare is so fast that he decides he has plenty of time to nap and then oversleeps, waking up and arriving at the finish line just in time to witness the tortoise win. The tortoise shouldn’t have won. Everything was against him including speed and agility but he didn’t let this...

The story of the tortoise and the hare has been on my mind quite a bit lately. If you don’t remember your Aesop’s Fables it is alright, I wouldn’t  if not for my preschool teaching this week. 🙂 In the story, the tortoise starts the race slowly and the hare bounds off. The hare is so fast that he decides he has plenty of time to nap and then oversleeps, waking up and arriving at the finish line just in time to witness the tortoise win. The tortoise shouldn’t have won. Everything was against him including speed and agility but he didn’t let this...

Since I have not had the chance to update this blog, I am posting the last three… from training camp until now. From Training Camp I wrote this from training camp and thought I would paste it here… Preparation and Anticipation I am so excited to be in India. I feel like I’ve been waiting so long already, so at first, training camp seemed like it would be a drag. To be honest, it would be really easy to allow myself to be anxious to just get this ovetrwith and get out of here. But already being exposed to what it might be like on the field, I have felt a little...

We have teams in on Saturday for training camp and all of them launch out of the United States to their prospective country on Wednesday, January 19th. Over the next four months young adults will travel to five different countries to bring Kingdom and we are so excited to see what happens during the four and a half months they are out on the field. At Real Life, we are asking participants to try to blog every week. This can be about the difficulty of living on the field, community, ministry, the adventure, or anything related to their time on the field. Granted, internet time can be hard...

“If we miss the God of meetings, we miss the God of the Bible.”  So I ask myself, “Why is it so hard to really feel the Holy Spirit? To really see the Holy Spirit move? Why does it come easy to some, and so difficult for so many?” For in God’s promise, He sent the Holy Spirit to come and dwell in us, so when we just ignore that the Holy Spirit exists, we are denying what the Lord has blessed us with. We are denying the trinity, ultimately.  Yet again, when I look back in my journal, the question still remains the same, “Why if Lord, you call me...