Category Africa

 This was the headline I read first thing this morning. HORRIFYING. The intro below is from Jumbo & Kriek (our Swazi contacts) followed by the newspaper article explaining the situation further. I can only imagine that there are MANY more…

The story below is from my first trip to Swaziland in 2007. I found it while organizing files on my computer and realized I’d never shared it! The information is dated now, but I hope it still moves you. You’ll…

It was broken and beautiful. It was desperation and hope. It was pain and healing. It was diseased and dying and crying to live. —————————————————— Unfortunately, I feel at home in hospitals. When your little brother has a chronic disease…

A few days ago I was checking in on a friend of ours, Pastor Gift, by reading his blog. Gift is Swazi, and he and his family (his wife Philile, and his three children Nothando, Nduduzo, and Okuhle) serve as…

We still have some personal updates for you to get you all up to speed on us, but today I’m taking a break to update you on something MUCH more important! Please read the information below to find our how…

This is an invitation from our founder (and one of my spiritual “Dads”), Seth Barnes, to go to Swaziland. He and his wife, as well as the Blacks are leading this trip. Take this trip, and you will get to…

Call me an optimist, but I believe the biggest problem in the world isn’t apathy, it’s ignorance. I really want to believe the tragedies happening in places like Swaziland (which you’ve seen in my last 2 blogs) and now in…

 I haven’t had much time to slow down since I got home from Africa. No time to really think. No time to journal. No time to let everything I saw sink in…   But in the quiet moments I find…

Still traveling (thanks to some delayed flights), but I’m back in America! Thank you again for all your incredible prayers and support. I could not do all I do without all of you amazing encouragers and prayer warriors in my…