Fifteen of us were crammed into a hotel room – sitting on the bed, on the floor, on chairs, on desks. I ask one person to lead a worship song acapella. As we sing, the Holy Spirit floods the room. Next thing I know, another teammate spontaneously leads a worship song. And another… and another… [...]
Standing outside of the local Asian style discount shopping center, having rain pour down on me – feeling like a wet dog, I had the crystal clear realization that I was not in America any more. Following behind the other three workers, I had to take baby steps on the slippery sidewalks, as I was [...]
So I found myself laying on a bed in a dim lit room just off a street in Asia. I had just gone through a semi-painful experience for about 45 minutes, and I now I as about to do something I never thought I would do…I was about to have about 12, you might call [...]
Trust. That’s one word that I have been struggling with these past few days. After about 30 hours of traveling, we have finally arrived! It has been an adventure like no other. We have been here for a couple days now and we have purchased our cell phones, bikes, and apartments. Three major tasks and [...]
Eight of us stuffed into a small passenger van with our luggage stacked so high on top of our laps that we couldn’t see where we were going. It was better that way- not to see how many other vehicles we almost collided with on the way to the hotel from the airport. Our plane [...]
I was standing in the airport and needed to dance a little jig. My teammates were surrounding me, bogged down with luggage, and strange yet familiar sights and sounds were filling my eyes and ears. I was back! In my mind I had danced this jig a hundred times in anticipation this summer, and it [...]
My mouth was on fire as I swallowed a piece of tofu coated in lajiao (hot spice). It was our first meal with local students from the university we are focusing on this year. We were eating hot pot, a popular local cuisine here. There was a big pot in the middle of the table, [...]
I couldn’t believe my eyes, or my nose. As I looked out the window of my hotel room, I could only see 4 blocks down the street. The smells were all coming back. Some of a smoggy resemblance, some the spicy food, and some that I can not describe in words. But all good none [...]
My friends and I were traipsing around the Uni the other day for a scavenger hunt our fearless leaders sent us on our own. We were supposed to find a number of things including the Uni we will be working on this coming year, a local/English map, a college student, and a squatty potty to [...]
20 minutes and they would be here. The apartment was cleaned, fruit salad made, coffee brewing and I was ready. It had been 4 days since arriving back here and it was so wonderful to be back home. The phone rang and I knew that it was time to go meet them down at the [...]