Finding Momentum

The tran­si­tion back home hasn’t been easy. It’s been hard to get used to the hustle-and-bustle of life here after com­ing back from such a piv­otal life expe­ri­ence. I don’t want to for­get Africa. I can’t. I need to remem­ber, I need to remem­ber the sim­plic­ity of liv­ing. The end­less skies. Friends to chill with […]

We made it safely back in one piece! Thanks for your con­tin­ual prayer and sup­port, we couldn’t have expe­ri­enced all this with­out you. 
One morn­ing, I woke to a rev­e­la­tion that I fear a life wasted.
I real­ized that one of my biggest fears was that if I were to totally sur­ren­der my life to fol­low Jesus […]

Mmm, Rusk…

Orig­i­nally uploaded by andrewhao

Allow me to intro­duce you to the rusk. Think of a bis­cotti, but chunkier. Per­fect in cof­fee or tea for break­fast, lunch, din­ner, or mid­night snack. Awesome.

Sure, Jack Bauer sniffs out ter­ror­ist sleeper cells to save the world in 24 hours, but did you know…
Zhie heads a wom­ens’ empow­er­ment project in Maun.
Zhie har­vests maize and peanuts and guavas in her back­yard.
Zhie has pro­vided fos­ter care for a local child.
Zhie sin­gle­hand­edly raises at least three kids at home, at least one of […]

Nel­isha is Sarah’s friend from 2006. We bumped into her at church the first week we came in, and we were invited to din­ner a week later! Here, as we are wait­ing for the food to come out, Nel­isha is try­ing to teach Sarah Shona, with lim­ited success.

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So life here has been a whirl­wind of activ­ity:
Mercy Min­istries
 

Last Thurs­day, I shad­owed Zhie, a social worker and com­mu­nity orga­nizer, as we drove on dirt roads from bor­ough to bor­ough and deliv­ered food. It gave me a great per­spec­tive on life out­side the mis­sion. Zhie really inspires me as some­body who pours her heart out […]

I have never felt so small, stand­ing under the African sky. I wish you could be here to see it; sprawl­ing dia­monds falling out of the Milky Way, mete­ors arc­ing over­head over stac­cato light­ning beats. Bolts. This moment feels like a mem­ory, déjà vu reversed again. Tomor­row, I will wake early and have cof­fee. Tonight, […]

This is the house I’m stay­ing in. Pretty cool huh?
 

Lis­ten to the cacoph­ony of ani­mals I wake up to:

In Christ alone my hope is found; He is my light, my strength, my song; This cor­ner­stone, this solid ground, Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. What heights of love, what depths of peace, When fears are stilled, when striv­ings cease! My com­forter, my all in all— Here in the love of Christ I stand.

We’re here in Botswana and are get­ting set­tled in here at LBOM. Things have been just a whirl­wind of unpack­ing and meet­ing tons of new and inter­est­ing folks. Keep check­ing in to find more updates… see you soon