Back in the day, I used to post something known as a “photo blog” for each of the countries we visited. Ireland, Romania, Bulgaria, Israel … all covered. But then I forgot I had a camera in Turkey, and it was incredibly difficult to upload photos during our three months in Africa so the “photo blog” fell by the wayside. Until now …
My team took many pictures in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. So I’m posting a handful of them for each country just to give everybody a taste of our ministries and what the people and the landscape looks like over there. This is a mix of photos by Ashlee Hillis, Kendra Baird, Katie McFaddin, Shannon Morgan, Ken Virzi, and myself. If you would like to see more photos, blogs, or videos of our time in Africa, click on the names above. Bon appetit.
Kenya
Deliverance Church Langata in Nairobi … our home away from home. We worked with Pastor Ezekiel, who heads up the evangelism department there. This is where I slept, worked, and burned Colin Langston for 40-yard touchdowns in football.
A typical World Race bedroom. Let it be known, this is the girls room. The guys room was much more organized and civil.
Kibera … the second-largest slum in Africa.
Kibera … much bigger than it looks in this photo.
Team Olur (minus Kendra, who is working the camera) with Pastor Ezekiel. This is the pre-demolition gun show, where tickets went quickly and expensively.
This is the class we helped teach when our team traveled to Garissa for four days. These kids were hilarious and could roll tires faster than any children I’ve ever been around. If you ever want to hear a funny story, ask me about Charlie Brown.
Uganda
Shannon sharing her testimony during a crusade in Gulu. We served at Victory Outreach Church with Pastor Stephen.
Dozens of kids showed up each night to our crusades and danced relentlessly during our praise and worship time.
Ashlee and Ken show the Africans how we hit the dance floor in America.
Our church-planting mission in a nearby village gave us a chance to pull out our tents for three nights and enjoy sleeping under the stars. The sky in Africa was so clear, and we spent one night pointing out the constellations.
Church in Gulu on our way to the university.
Ken can fly.
Tanzania
Posing for a photo with some Maasai men in Morogoro. This was right after Ken shared the gospel with them, and they all accepted Christ into their lives. Then they fought to have their pictures taken individually with only Ken. We served with Pastor Albinus at Pentecostal Assemblies of God Church.
Kendra preaches at a secondary school. We visited the school twice during the month, and the kids were great listeners and even translated for us.
Yeah, so the signs that say not to feed the monkeys are actually pretty helpful. If case you’re wondering what will happen if you feed them, they will chase you and make loud, aggressive grunting noises, and then stalk you … like the baboon above. Thanks to Katie McFaddin and Melanie Dodson for carrying out this experiment.
Mount Morogoro.
We visited Compassion kids, and they danced for us just hours before performing at Morogoro’s version of American Idol.
African women have the strongest necks in the world.
Katie is entertaining the children as we rest during our lunch break.
Early-morning clouds roll over the mountain. If you look hard, you can see a faint rainbow.
View from the top. … I lied. I should say view from the two-thirds.
Goodbye Africa. Until we meet again …
