Author: Adventures

Village Outreach

We went on our first village outreach on Friday the 11th to a small village with roughly 60 homes and a Christian church, with a small following.   When we arrived, children crowded the van to greet us and to shake our hands.  We were introduced to the pastor of the village and he showed us the church of the village.  The church is a one-room building that had colorful decorations across the ceiling, chairs that can be moved in and out, a speaker, and a podium.  The church building is small but I know that it is a place where people are hungry for the word and...

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Hearing God’s Word

How does God speak to you? How did God call you to serve in India?     "A thought–I don't know where it came from. But if it matches with scripture and is confirmed through prayer, then I know it was from God." -Hannah "It was something put on my heart. Not just a thought that went away." -Mack "A thought that questioned why I wouldn't go somewhere. It was confirmed through the the money that came in and a book which I read which dealt with a missionary in India. I hear God through other people and sometimes when I ask Him...

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Satan is real.

     Growing up in a Christian family I was told a lot about God and how important a relationship with Him was.  When I went to church, a lot of the lessons were about God and his miraculous works He did on healing and teaching people. I was kind of in my own little world that nothing bad would ever happen to me because God could do anything.  It wasn’t until recently I learned the effects Satan can have on people and their lives. I always have known and believed that Satan was real, but I never thought he would ever attack me with anything. I can now...

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The Lost Sheep

  "What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost." Matthew 18: 12-14   Despite the title of this blog, I am not writing this to completely focus on "The Lost Sheep." Many times we see people fall away...

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Christ Transformed Me

                Two years ago the thought of coming on a trip to spend time with kids would have made me sick to my stomach. To be completely honest I didn't like kids very much. They were loud, needed too much attention, and always had some type of bodily fluid coming out of them:(  When my niece was born my heart softened a little bit, but the real change occurred when I began to pray that God would give me a love for children. God did more than that. Here I am in a children's home for kids with special...

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