So my team is pretty great. It’s me and 7 other girls plus our 2 leaders. Audrey, Emma, Kelsey, Alexis, Roxy, Mary Grace, Macey, Sam, and Jessica. They’re definitely an interesting bunch. I hope to keep growing closer to them. I’m sure we will. After all, we’re living in pretty sweaty, crazy, tight conditions together for 2 months. We live with the other India team too. The normal day consists of a quiet time in the morning by myself with breakfast, going to SCH office to do paperwork for adoptions- we’re almost done with that project though! Yay! Then...

Ok, so I haven’t learned to trust God by now….I don’t know what it will take. FUNDRAISING “God, how is this money going to come so I can go?”……Go got ya kid.       – Every time a deadline has come, I have hit the financial amounts weeks early. MEDICAL “God, I don’t know where to get this stuff?”….I got ya kid.       – After a painful 6 months of trying to find this blasted stuff, my aunt gave me a number to call.  They didn’t have it, BUT KNEW A PLACE THAT DID.  I...

So we’ve been in India for over a week now and my heart has been pretty much all over the place. I’ve been stretched past what I thought was my capacity to love- and though hard, it has been so beautiful. As a team we have made it a priority to come together as a body every morning on our rooftop overlooking the town and experience the presence of God in a variety of ways. The other morning, God gave me some insight into what He sees in this team of girls. As we were reading through Ephesians God spoke, “RATHER, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is...

Earlier this week we were finishing sizing the kids in the different homes for clothes in preparation to start labeling and repairing donations. First we went to the Victory House—a huge home with dozens of kids. It was chaotic. It was absolutely wonderful. Next, we went to the schoolgirls’ home—an apartment complex that housed the majority of the school-going kids. Walking in, the atmosphere was immediately different from the other house we had visited. It was quieter, the children who lived there mostly had physical disabilities rather than cognitive ones. It felt so much like Home. A...

At 6:00AM on Saturday I was awoken to begin our wonderful adventure to the water park. As we waited outside of the gates by our house to get picked up I began to feel a little bit nervous- I was finally going to meet my little Andrew! (you can find him on the SCH site) Andrew was one of the kids who’s paper work I had done to help in getting him adopted. While doing his paper work he had instantly gotten ahold of my heart, for what reason or how this happened I couldn’t tell you, but throughout the rest of the days I kept thinking about this precious little boy. My thoughts...

Tuk-tuks- My brother once asked the New York City taxi driver if he had a license.. A license to kill. Taxi’s in India have absolutely nothing on New York City taxi drivers. India has no stoplights, stop signs, speed limits or dotted lines. India’s taxis also have no running meters. Everywhere you go, regardless of the distance, it costs 10 rupees. (Roughly $0.20) Take that New York City. This three wheeled taxi, called a tuk-tuk (took-took), is ornately decorated with tapestry hanging from the ceiling and if you are lucky, a speaker that can pack some major bass and bollywood...