an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth will make the world blind (and need dentures)

Oh man. This whole experience has been so awesome. I don’t know really what I should say now that it looks like its over for good. I guess I just hope that the trip wasn’t a one-time thing. Not that we’re all going to keep going on trips like this, but I just hope that for all of us, it was just one small piece in our ongoing walks with God and how we serve Him. (I think one of the orientation materials called it our “missional journey”?) anyway, I am very grateful for the chance to have done th… Continue

I don’t know anyone who got back recently from a trip but I know someone who is leaving soon...
Rereading journals is fun and cool to see what was all written.
One major lesson: that is impossible there are too many.
Mission statement: I want to be committed to being the hands and feet of God in loving the world through providing materially, emotionally, and spiritually for others.
My mentor and I concluded that God is constant in every culture and does the same things but can work in different… Continue

The parts of the experience that I remember the most are:

-worshipping in Ugandan churches
-visiting vulnerable people
-visiting the hospital in Kabale
-seeing genocide memorials
-working with Ugandan team members

These memories tell me that I enjoy and benefit from working and worshipping with people that are different from me and that I have a heart of compassion for the oppressed. I hope to be able to use these gifts to further God’s Kingdom, but in all honesty, I have no idea what I should… Continue

1. Major observation: service learning trip where we worked on projects, experienced, and lived the local lifestyle and shared God’s love with the community
2. What I would do differently: longer trip, different country (so that it is more of a cross-cultural experience for the Ugandan youth as well)
3. What went well: EVERYTHING. Enough said.
4. What I benefited: interdependency, selflessness, strengthened relationship with God, value of community and friends, God is in control, listening, adva… Continue

What I am worried about in preparations: that I will forget or neglect something
What I am worried about during the trip: that I will make cultural blunders, that I will become sick, that I may offend someone from a different culture, and that I will shy away from cross cultural interactions
Why am I worried? Because theyre things I don’t want to happen but I see the possibility that they will happen
In what situations will I need to be strong and courageous? When I am out of my comfort zone in… Continue