Author: Adventures

Every morning I awake to the sounds of the filipino people. The honking of the trikes and the laughter of the kids as they play. The day starts early here because they do buisness with the sun. In our little town of Cainta kids are everywhere and they stand at our gate just waiting for us to step out. They all know our names so we constantly here tita kailie, tita kailie come play with me. Tita come play tita, tita, tita!! Sometimes you grow to despise that word because you can't just blend in here. I am a person who loves to fade into the backrround so having eyes constantly on me has...

Every morning I awake to the sounds of the filipino people. The honking of the trikes and the laughter of the kids as they play. The day starts early here because they do buisness with the sun. In our little town of Cainta kids are everywhere and they stand at our gate just waiting for us to step out. They all know our names so we constantly here tita kailie, tita kailie come play with me. Tita come play tita, tita, tita!! Sometimes you grow to despise that word because you can't just blend in here. I am a person who loves to fade into the backrround so having eyes constantly on me has...

Disclaimer: Names and places have been eliminated to help protect the people we're working with in Manila. From the 4 days i've been living in the Philippines, God is teaching me how to love the least of thee. Let me give some examples.   The organization we're working with out here has a Children's home. We spent one afternoon running around with the kids of all ages here. I ran around for a while with the kids playing tag til I saw a girl sitting on the steps by herself. I approached her, learned her name and that she was 14 years old. I kept asking her to...

Disclaimer: Names and places have been eliminated to help protect the people we're working with in Manila. From the 4 days i've been living in the Philippines, God is teaching me how to love the least of thee. Let me give some examples.   The organization we're working with out here has a Children's home. We spent one afternoon running around with the kids of all ages here. I ran around for a while with the kids playing tag til I saw a girl sitting on the steps by herself. I approached her, learned her name and that she was 14 years old. I kept asking her to...

After a few hours in the Atlanta airport and a couple more in a yellow school bus, we rolled into a heavily wooded retreat center in northern Georgia, with the warmth and humidity of a jungle.  Over the few days that we were there things were crazy.  The craziness was associated with learning new things about the mission field and our destinations (as there were six different groups training simultaneously), meeting our group members and not being notified of the day’s activities.  For me, these days were also significant because through all this learning and training...

Well here we are in Cainta, Philippines. It is beautiful here and I am in love with the people and the ministry. The plane ride here was scary long and my ankles became kankles for about four days lol. We arrived to our ministry house around 1am and woke up around 7am. We attended two church services toured the city and did a bunch of random things to force us to stay awake. By the time we crawled into our beds it was 9 pm and we were dead. Since then we have slowly but surely been adjusting to the 12 hour time difference. We have also taken part in a million different ministries. After...