To be honest, I’ve struggled to figure out what to write this month. It has been a chaotic month and I don’t want to write a blog because I’m supposed to, I want to write a blog because the Lord has given me something to say.
So, for this month, I want to talk about some of the highlights and some of the challenges Rwanda presented and I want to share where my heart is during this season…
I was living in Kigali, so I got the opportunity to really explore the city and feel the heartbeat of the culture here. The country is breathtakingly beautiful. It’s called the “land of a thousand hills” and that is an understatement. Words cannot describe the beauty in Rwanda.
This month, I have had the opportunity to:
- Do door-to-door evangelism.
- Preach at the church.
- Do manual labor at the church grounds (I got two swing a machete around, chopping down brush).
- Pray with a stranger I met in the library.
- Visit an orphanage.
- Hug countless children.
- Share my testimony on a daily basis.
- Celebrate at an African birthday party.
- Fight off bed bugs.
- Laugh. A lot.
This month, I have had the opportunity to join my Father in His work here in Rwanda.
This month, this biggest highlight was bringing joy to the children at the orphanage we visited. When we bring joy, we bring Kingdom. This trip is about bringing Kingdom, both to those around us and to our own hearts.
This month, the biggest challenge was bed bugs. We discovered we had bed bugs at the end of week one and spent the better part of the month fighting them off. But, we came out on the other side victorious.
This month has been challenging. God is walking me through brokenness and into freedom. It’s a painful process, but He knows the payoff of the freedom I get to walk into with Him far outweighs the pain I will go through to get there. In order to step into freedom in Christ, I must surrender to Him. I must surrender to His love and His will for my life.
Coming on the Race was a huge step of faith and surrender, but I must continue to take up my cross daily and follow Him. Every day, I have to choose to trust Him and to surrender Him. It’s a process of dying to myself so that I can be ALIVE in Him.
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