“Carley, I have full confidence that God will use you to bring hope and healing to these children AS you stay close to Him and let Him minister through you. Remember, there is nothing in you (alone) that these children want or need except the Person and Power of Jesus being made a live in you. Does this make sense? Speaking for myself, I have nothing to offer anyone else—no good thing—except that which God does in me and through me. As God changes me and makes me more like Jesus, then He can use me more fully to change those around me. This is also true of...

Hello from India! I am so glad to finally have a second to sit down and let you all know what the Lord has done over the past few days. Our team has been going non stop since tuesday morning at 6:30 am. We traveled for literally 48 hours to get to our final destination, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh. We are so thankful for the Lords protection in all our travels so far. I am sure you are all wondering what i will be doing now that i am here.  My team and I will be working for the first fours weeks in Sarah’s Covenant Home (SCH). SCH is an orphanage for special needs children and it has...

Coming to training camp I really just didn’t think I would like it. I honestly had no clue as to what we would be doing but my two pictures of how it would go were (1) sitting around a fire singing songs and holding hands, and (2) living in a cave and fighting bears. It was neither of those. However, it has definitely been an interesting experience. Looking back on everything now it feels like training camp was such a blur. One of my absolute favorite things that we did was build our own shelter (that we would be sleeping in for the night) and sitting around a campfire eating walking...

May 2, 2011. Early this morning news broke that US officials announced that Osama Bin Laden was killed late last night in Pakistan. The US State Department issued a worldwide travel advisory for all US citizens abroad, anticipating the possibility of retaliatory violence by Bin Laden sympathizers. While none of our Real Life teams are in high-threat areas, we have been in contact with them to keep them aware of ongoing events and to be sure they are all safe.

:India: Hannah, Sarah, Molly, Mackenzie, Crystal, Alyssa, Lindsey