A day in the life…   I wake up when Reese’s alarm goes off at 5.  Of course, I go back to sleep.  I wake up at 6:30 and feel the sun rise as it shines through the tent.  I…

Things have been busy around here lately.  We’re all moved in to our new Kenyan home in Mbita, just off of Lake Victoria near the Kenyan Islands.  There is a beautiful sunset every night and occasionally majestic thunderstorms that make…

Over the weekend, we made the move across the border into Kenya.   We drove over the sketcy Kenyan roads to the ferry just outside of Kisumu.  We took the ferry (ie. sunset cruise) over Lake Victoria and shortly arrived…

This is the revelation that none of us wanted to admit in the first place – that Novas was never about ministry.  It was never about Africa or Central America.  It was never about works or good deeds, though God…

I walk into the classroom.  I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of children present.  This is P2, or second grade (roughly).  There are probably at least 80 children crowded into a small room, with a few desks and a…

I was sick.   Didn’t know how, didn’t know why, but I was sick.  We didn’t know where to go or if they could even do the tests needed to diagnose me.  After a few calls, we took a walk.…

How many people can you cram into the back of a Rav4?   We were going to try for 5, but were resigned to taking 4.   Kathleen, Cherise, Tara and I accompanied Pastor Moses to a neighboring church in…

We live in a walled plantation-style house.  There are padlocks on every door, so many that many times we lived locked into our own world.  The world outside of the locks is Africa.  Africa is a place where people live…

Our main form of transport here in Busia (when not hanging out of the back of a diesel truck) is bicycle.   We even have little bells on them so we can give notice when passing.  On the right.  Because…