I loved Kenya and I want to go back some day. Cambodia affected me in a much different way. The country reached down in my soul and stirred up a lot of questions and misgivings about America, or more specifically Atlanta. I just don’t want to be here. I don’t know where I want to [...]

Skydiving My brother, G and I went skydiving in July at Skydive The Farm. I must do this again. The adrenaline rush lasted an hour. You see the world in an entirely new way. Kenya Going on my first foreign mission trip included many firsts: first flight to Africa, first time at Schiphol airport in [...]

Whether or not your candidate won, history has been made. Never in my life have I seen such excitement towards politics. I’ve loved politics since I was a teenager. Inspired by my high school Civics teacher, Mr. David Brogdon, I developed a passion for politics. This election resurrected my passion for politics after many years [...]

Hey. I’m here in Sandestin with 900 other singles from our church. Folks are still getting here but soon the Hilton will be overtaken by us. In other news. Please pray for my friend April. She left yesterday for Kenya on a 410 Bridge trip very similar to the one I went on. Pray for [...]

My buddy Avril and I joked the other night how I never finished writing about the Kenya trip. She said, “Well you obviously made it back.” Ok, so here is our last 2 days in Kenya. We woke up in the nicest hotel rooms of our trip. Our experience at the Serena Safari Lodge in [...]

Read this article about child prostitution in Kenya. It’s a heartbreaking story. Pray for the Kenyans. As I read this I felt that connection we developed when we were over there. This country has so far to go. Yet these people are some of the happiest, most content I’ve ever met.

I woke up feeling bad. I felt like I had a cold coming on. My sinuses were clogged with dirt. Dan describes the feeling as though, “we’ve smoked 3 packs of cigarettes.” My hands, forearms, shoulders, back and legs were all sore. I couldn’t imagine working another day digging in the east African soil. All [...]

We leave The Garden Hotel in Machakos at 8 a.m. The Garden Hotel proves much nicer then the P.C.E.A Guest House. The food is better. The rooms are better. It’s an hour and half to Ngaamba. As we drive Kenyans are walking and riding bikes to work and school. Simon, our bus driver, is an [...]

Today we left Nairobi at 8 a.m. for the 4 hour drive to Ngaamba. Abraham warns that the roads are, “bumpy bumpy.” We drive down the Mombasa Highway to Ngaamba. There are stretches of paved road followed by stretches of extremely bumpy roads, called diversions. The road to Ngaamba is nondescript. You have to know [...]

Day 2 is when my laptop died. The power supply blew out. So from here on out it’s all from memory. # # # Today we went to Life Reformation Church in section 44 of Nairobi. Seeing the “real Kenya” makes me feel special. We are going places the normal tourist would never go. As [...]