Post-trip report

            I deeply apologize for the delay in writing to you to thank you and to give you a post-trip report on our time in Africa. First, let me explain the delay. As some of you know, when I returned to the states in October of 2007 I came home to a beautiful fiancé who [...]

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SUDAN

Tomorrow we fly out of Entebbe, Uganda with MAF (Missionary Aviation Fellowship) to Nimule, Sudan. We will be in Southern Sudan until Sept. 27th traveling around with two Kenyan men, David and Kennedy, who have been living and working in Nimule for the past few years. We are planning to visit 9 different villages within [...]

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by this all men will know…

We are three less than before now. Our teammates, Justin and Tiffany Hanes, and Justin Gibson, have gone back to the States. They flew out of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on August 7th leaving Josh and I to continue on our journey to Sudan.
The experience of saying goodbye meshed several emotions together. I was sad to see [...]

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Poopsmith Team 2007

Since my last update we have been traveling a lot! From Nairobi we went to the coast and spent our first week at Turtle Bay at the AAMC (All African Missionary Conference) which was such a blessing! There were missionaries from all over Africa and a group from Portland (Milton Jones and others) and Ft. Worth who [...]

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Update on the Fall!

Well our plans for the fall have been in the making since very early on. But because of the nature of our plans (what we want to do and where we want to go) it took some time to form.
I didn’t want to say too much about the fall until we had more of a [...]

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Leaving MITS

Our time with Made in the Streets is at an end. It all seems to be moving so fast! The last 3 weeks have been a blur! We started in Eastleigh working with the street kids doing day camps, playing soccer, eating and just hanging out. Then we moved from the streets to Kamulu to [...]

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Made in the Streets

We are now in Nairobi, Kenya working with a group called Made-in-the-Streets. MITS is a ministry to homeless children, primarily teenagers, in a slum of Nairobi called Eastleigh. They have a compound in Eastleigh where they feed people, take care of health needs, bring in mothers and babies, play games, and profoundly provide an [...]

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Kisumu and the Breaking…

We have been in Africa for about 1 month now and things are mzuri sana (very good)! We have had our bumps and bruises and rough days, but God has been faithful, the people are beautiful, and we have been learning together everyday.
We love Kisumu and the Ringroad Orphans Day School. They have been so [...]

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Yes, We’re in Africa!

Yes, I know, it has been almost 3 weeks since we left, and I am just now writing. We are here. Hopefully you have been reading up on Josh’s website and have an idea about what’s going on. But in case you haven’t here is my version of the story
We travelled for over 85 hrs [...]

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Our hearts are there…

32 Days until we get on the plane and fly to Entebbe, Uganda. One month and 2 days and we will begin our journey through East Africa. Over the past year the dream of going to Africa has developed and changed and undergone trials and transformation, but somehow it has come together and the time [...]

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