Hey guys!
Quick update on a few things:
Just wanted to thank you all for the thoughts and prayers throughout the
past month. Kenya was great but pretty rough as well with getting
Malaria. My neck is still sore and I some days I have little to no energy, but I am feeling better and am hoping with more rest in the next few days, I will be all healthy in no time!
-After some crazy travel adventures we are now here in Iringa, Tanzania. It only took two overloaded buses of smelly people and almost 48 hours but we made it. There was little food or sleep and no teeth brushing or showering along the way. However, there was plenty of dirt flying through the windows, werid smells, fun video’s being taken with Lauren, lots of delirious laughs at Emily & Tanna’s heads bobbing while they attempted to sleep as I was smushed between them. The coolest part though was cefinately seeing the wild animals along the way. (Giraffes, elephants, zebras, and bamboo!) I don’t know, words can’t really descirbe the experiance, but I think many of you would be proud of me for mostly joyfully making it through 😉 haha! Here we will be working with Pastor Cha Cha in several different ministries for the month. It sounds like we will be doing lots of evanglism, bible studies, orphanage stuff, hospital visits, preaching, prison misnity and more. Will fill you in as we go.
– The past few months have been full of transitions and team changes. Since leaving my first team JSL (Jesus Said Love)I spent the past three months on different teams, with different leaders! Happy to say that Scott and Denise, my team leaders from Malaysia have safely made it home to the good ol’ USA after two months of recovering from ankle surgery in Thailand. As we entered into Kenya, more changes, a new team leader, Sarah, and we adopted a Real Lifer for the month, Maria Krump. Sarah is a Rock star and Krump was a HUGE blessing to our team. She spent the month serving along side as one of us all month. She is now headed back to the states to start her freshman year of college in August. She brought a great dynamic to our team and was a refreshing breath of fresh air that we all needed. We love you girl!
Team Umoja. Sarah on the bottom left and Krump is right between the two in yellow and blue!
Krump makin Chapate one night for dinner!
-THANK YOU so much to all my supporters who’ve helped us make it this far! The support deadline in quickly approaching or already here ( JULY 1) and I still need about 4,000 in order to be fully funded! Prayers for financial provision would be such a blessing!
‘God is good, all the time… All the time, God is good, and that is his nature… WOW!’ Pastor John’s favorite saying this month! kept us smiling 🙂
LOVE and miss You all so much!