Entries Tagged as 'Andrew 2.0'

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Day one

Since I’ve been here last, things have changed. I grad­u­ated from col­lege, went to Africa, started work­ing in the City, changed churches, moved homes. In the span of one week, I’m in San Fran­cisco, then Emeryville, then Saratoga, then Oak­land and back. I’ve said good­bye to friends, made new ones, and redis­cov­ered old ones.
I gotta be […]

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Grace upon grace

I think Grace is jack­ham­mer­ing into my creaky l’il reli­gious heart right now. A sim­ple word from Romans is tear­ing me apart like it hasn’t before.
8 “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); 9 because, 
if you con­fess with your mouth that Jesus […]

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

I’m going to boil this trip down to one word: “surrender”

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 […]

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Mmm, Rusk…

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.

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

An afternoon with Zhie

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 […]

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Dinner at Nelisha’s (Video)

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.

Check out more of our Botswana videos!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

What I’ve been doing

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 […]

Friday, February 13th, 2009

Experience a morning in Africa

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

Lis­ten to the cacoph­ony of ani­mals I wake up to:

Sunday, February 8th, 2009

We made it!

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

Friday, February 6th, 2009

About to fly into Maun

The pho­tos that almost weren’t
So do you see those pho­tos I just uploaded? Let’s just say that get­ting them online came at a price. So the story is that because I was so busy edit­ing pho­tos on the com­puter, I lost track of time (strangely enough, that’s the story of my life). We had a […]