Author: Adventures

Finding joy in immense poverty found here in the Philippines can be tough sometimes. The other day I was introduced to a twelve year old girl named Crystelle. a local pastor’s wife had met Crystelle a couple of days earlier at a feeding, noticed she looked malnourished, and followed her home to meet her family. Two days later, Andy (one of the guys on my team) and I were invited to take some groceries to the family and meet them. We parked the car outside of a gated community and walked through a hole in the fence into a squatter’s village. The further we walked back into this...

     SO…reading the title to this blog may leave you wondering why I’m writing about guitars, girls and jacks…just trust me. Over the past month in the Philippines, I’ve had the opportunity to come into a home for more than 30 orphaned and abused girls and play guitar, fellowship, and worship with them. Not many male figures have came here because of some of the trust issues that the girls have with men, so I was extremely nervous the first time I came into the home along with the girls on my Passport team. All I had with me was my guitar, my worship...