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Hi family and friends! We have now made it safely to Kenya after 28 hours of traveling. We arrived in Nairobi on the 27th of January to debrief with R squad and Q squad. The director of the world race, Michael Hindes, and another staff member, Sean, came here to walk us through some things that we might be going through and to preach what the Lord was speaking to them. Wait a second! You do believe that God still speaks to His people today don’t you? Well I hope so because He does speak to His children. It was the best debrief I have had so far.


Now when I say this was the best debrief I had that does not mean it was filled with glamour and excitement although I had some fun and even got to go on a Safari! I was actually pretty broken and trying to figure out some things about myself and what God was saying to me.






                                                                                                                                                                   Last month in Rwanda was not my best month by far. It was actually the first month that I felt like I did not accomplish much at all and I was kind of down on myself about this. I kept thinking I could have done more, my attitude could have been better, I could have followed through with what I said but I didn’t and I wish I had felt better.  All of my motivation to do any kind of ministry pretty much the entire month was gone. I was between a rock and a hard place.

The fact of the matter is I was not very excited about the ministry we were doing and culture shock hit me really hard while we were in Rwanda. Every moment I walked outside of the gate of the house we were staying in, suddenly I would be bombarded by people asking for money, laughing at me and calling me mzungu, which means white person. I would go running in the morning and people would actually stop in their tracks, some with giant baskets on their heads, and turn just to stare at me. It was as if they saw Jesus running down the street. Others would run with me for a couple seconds mocking me and others would yell at me. After the first week that got really annoying because I could not run and concentrate on God as I usually do so I quit running and started working out inside the house. So needless to say I was ready to leave Rwanda to head to Kenya.


 


 


           When we arrived in Nairobi I felt heavily convicted of some things from the month in Rwanda. One conviction I had was not following through with my words. I would speak something with my mouth but I would not follow through with my actions. One example of this is when I was in Rwanda I had an excellent conversation with two guys that were drinking. We talked about Christ, drinking, and freedom and the spirit spoke through me that night. About 30 minutes into the conversation their ride showed up but they said they wanted to talk to me more later on. Both of them gave me their phone numbers although I don’t have a phone and we arranged a time to meet the next day at 2:00 in the exact spot we were in. That night I was so excited that I was going to get to talk to them again and I was praying for God to speak through me again with the right words that would not lead them astray. I had to be very careful with my words because we were talking about the topic of freedom in Christ and if you take it in the wrong context then it can definitely make you believe you are allowed to do anything and will lead you away from Jesus instead of to Him.

The next day I woke up and we went door to door ministering. We had a great day of ministry but we had walked about 5 or 6 miles and we were all really hungry because that morning we had bread for breakfast which consist of nothing but carbohydrates. Therefore I was running on empty and ready to eat something to put a little fuel in my body. On the way back from ministry I walked past the spot I was supposed to meet the two guys at around 1:55. It started to rain really hard and I was really hungry so I didn’t wait around for them to show nor did I expect them to shoe due to the rain. It continued to rain that day and I never met the two guys. I blew it off at first because I had their numbers but as the days went by I never got around to calling either one of the guys to finish our conversation.



          Therefore, at debrief God convicted me of not following through with my words. Another conviction I received from God was I wrote a support letter before I went on the trip and one line I wrote in it said that I would faithfully blog once a week while I was on the race. I forgot about this until God told me to read the letter and I noticed that part. It hit me hard that I have not faithfully blogged once a week.

So now I have given over control to God once again and I am going to start following through with my words. I want to repent to everyone for not faithfully writing once a week. From this point on I will write at least once a week if it is possible for us to use the internet.


I say all of this to tell you God did an amazing work in my life last week during debrief. Thank you all for praying for me! God is rocking my world right now and I love it. I am changing from the inside out every single day.