Today I woke up with a lot on my mind. The past few days have been full. Not just busy, but full of emotion, full of relation, full of encouragement, full of need… just full. And I felt like I missed a lot today. Looking in the past is only good if it prevents you [...]
Entries from November 2008
November 27, 2008
Beat the Drum
When I think of people suffering from AIDS, I think of skinny, dilapidated, dying people. I’ve known people in my past who’ve suffered from AIDS, they eventually did die. AIDS is a horrible virus, and even still in America AIDS has a negative connotation.
Today we spent a good portion of the day at an AIDS/HIV [...]
November 25, 2008
Love Conquers All
Today at Tumaini was a packed full day. The team was spread out all over the place, both in Tumaini and in Njure, a HIV Widows Community. Rob, Jeanne, Maria and Sandy visited the HIV Widows Community, and aside of their stories I have no shared experience. The good report is that the widows are [...]
November 25, 2008
Comfort
In America, I am accustomed to paved roads, trustworthy food (for the most part), zoning, and predictable church services. Today was probably the most unlike-America day we’ve experienced so far.
During our church experience, Pastor Phyllis, the pastor of Karima Church just up the road from Tumaini, said something that struck me right to the core. [...]
November 23, 2008
When You’re Given Lemons…
11/22/08
“Make Lemonade”, so the saying goes. Today I discovered that when you give some kids a cow pasture, they make a football (soccer) field. Let me explain…
Today is day two in Africa and we traveled about 3 hours north west of Nairobi to the Tumaini Children’s Home. All of the 127 children are orphans, many [...]
November 23, 2008
Flight over to Africa
11/20/08
For the next several weeks, I am going to be blogging my experience from Africa. It is quite the possibility that none of this will be posted until after my return, depending on if there is internet access in the bush and if their computers can handle my vastly superior 1.21 Gigawats Apple Computer.
It is [...]
November 18, 2008
Palm (reading) Sunday
Growing up in Eugene, I’m not unfamiliar with alternative (to Christianity) forms of spirituality. And while there are a lot of value in some of these alternative spiritual lifestyles, I never really could get behind the concept of palm reading. I could be scientifically off, but I just don’t see how one can look at [...]
November 11, 2008
Being There
This past weekend, Jen and I went up to Asheville, NC for a time to ourselves. The agenda: being there. We soaked in the time together, and the time alone. We found this great little coffee shop called the Black Bear Cafe (actually, this was in Hendersonville) and it was everything that I love about [...]
