Eish! So much has happened, it’s hard to know where to start! Some highlights of this last packed week… Ayanda’s birthday! Last year while I was here, I got to celebrate Pununu’s, Johannes’, and Tenele’s birthdays but missed Ayanda’s, so it was a blessing to be here with her to celebrate! Hanna and Alex made […]
The general theme of my last year here with Tenele was “one step forward, two steps back” so I naturally expected to see that again this trip. I knew the initial joyous meetings with Tenele would soon turn into sad ones as she was bound to retreat as in the year before. Every time I […]
For our evening devotions, we have been going through a book called, “Lord, I Want to Know You.” It goes through all the names of God and how his characters are revealed in Scripture. It’s been very engaging and empowering for us to learn to know our God more intimately. In light of the study, […]
After first meeting Tenele, she insisted that I meet this friend of hers who had taken her to church a few weeks back. A man named Sandile, excitedly came over to talk with me about Tenele, so Tenele left the two of us alone to chat. Sandile was amazed at what Tenele had told him […]
In any other situation, a nine hour layover in Chicago would have been absolutely agonizing; however, thanks to Lindsay’s dad, we were blessed with time to hang out in the Admirals Club until we boarded our plane for London at 9:00 p.m. that night. An eight hour plane ride put us safely on European grounds […]
The day I have been waiting for all year is now here, and it’s so hard to believe it’s real! I can’t fathom how much work the Lord has done in just the last year of my life! After my prayers and frustrations of wanting people to team with me to help these young women […]
I just realized I never actually posted about the biggest excitement of the year: Hosea’s Heart, Inc! An official non-profit organization to empower the abused and at-risk women in Swaziland, Africa! Chris Owen, co-founder or the organization and age old friend, worked hard behind the scenes all year long to help me legalize the non-profit. […]
February 25th, 2012… nearly 8 months after leaving Tenele and my children behind, I had the blessing of hearing my childrens’ voices over Skype (not video, but I’ll take what I can get)! I had been trying to get a hold of my children in Swazi for a long, long time, but I couldn’t get […]
On Wednesday, November 30th 2011, an absolutely beautiful baby girl entered the world, thus making me a “gogo” (grandmother). Ryan sent word that my Tenele-Bell had given birth to a stunning baby girl. I was so excited I could hardly contain myself! I called him early in the morning after receiving a text message that […]
It’s been quite the whirlwind of emotions and events since I’ve stepped back onto home soil. Now back for a little over two months, you’d think I’d be in routine and settled back into culture. But that’s the thing about a missions trip like this, we aren’t meant to “settle back” but to push forward. […]
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