First of all, I apologize for taking so long to update a blog! It was not intentional, promise! 🙂 We have been in India for almost 2 months, and it honestly feels like home now. It’s weird to think of all the things that scared us, made us laugh, or totally shocked us about the things we saw. The insane-makes-no-sense traffic scared us, all of the cows, goats, dogs, and cats frolicking wherever they please made us laugh, and even though we knew well before we came that India had a lot of beggars and homeless, it still shocked us seeing it in person. We have become immune t...

Freedom is a concept we so often take for granted as Americans; freedom to speak, freedom to express, freedom to believe.  So narrowly minded going through my days at home not appreciating how blessed I am to live in one nation under God.  As this idea is rapidly crumbling we as a nation will soon learn what it is like to “not know what you’ve got til it’s gone”, because whether we are willing to accept it or not these privileges are fading fast. From training camp we are taught to let go of all expectations, even as simple as a shower or...

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...

Hello family and friends! Hope this update finds you well! My team just got back from Bangalore which is where we did our debrief and visited/helped out with a school there for a few days. Those kids call us “auntie” instead of “teacher” like in the slum. The school is a completely different atmosphere than in the slum, but God is definitely working in both!  Tonight the 6 of us girls watched Slumdog Millionaire and it was so fun! Seeing the little kids in it made me very happy that we get to go back to the slum that we missed being in so very much! This week...

Hello family and friends! Hope this update finds you well! My team just got back from Bangalore which is where we did our debrief and visited/helped out with a school there for a few days. Those kids call us “auntie” instead of “teacher” like in the slum. The school is a completely different atmosphere than in the slum, but God is definitely working in both!  Tonight the 6 of us girls watched Slumdog Millionaire and it was so fun! Seeing the little kids in it made me very happy that we get to go back to the slum that we missed being in so very much! This week...

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...