Category Archives: africa On Friday I read No Greater Love by Levi Benkert. I highly recommend this book, especially to those who are interested in overseas missions work themselves or even those who are just curious about what life in Africa can be like. I loved Benkert’s honesty through the whole book, they went through a lot of...  {photo source} There is a major war going on in the Democratic Republic of Congo. You may have heard of it, it has been in the news a bit recently but chances are unless you have done some research you probably don’t know the extent of it. Just to give you some numbers to grasp...  It seems I am still digesting all the lessons I learned from our trip to Uganda in February. We’ve been back for six months and I feel like I am still learning. One day on our trip Michelle needed to go to the local market to buy some new shoes for the boys at the...  While in Uganda we met a young girl named Promise. She lived close to Tyler and Michelle, and her and her brother Moses would often stand outside the fence that surrounded their house and yell out “muzungu” (white person) or “Jeremiah” (Tyler and Michelle’s son). One day we let them in the yard to play,...  It can come up so suddenly, at the most unexpected of times. This morning I opened up Facebook and saw this face: Sweet, sweet Sam with the most amazing smile. It’s hard to believe that this young boy, who we only saw a few times while in Uganda, has stolen my heart so completely. I... 
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