Author: Adventures

Have you ever seen a face more perfect? Allow me to introduce this little angel(:Meet Chabota, the little two year old boy I have been falling in love with since day 1 here in Zambia. It is amazing to me that every time I pick him up, I still get that little leap in my heart. I find myself thinking about him every minute I’m not with him, and every minute I’m with him, I wish even more that I could take him home to America. I never knew I could feel this way about a child that wasn’t mine..but hey, isn’t that what adoption is all about? With my story, I...

I think it’s probably a pretty big deal that we are pretty much on location of one of the 7 Wonders of the World.I mean, technically speaking we are about a 15 minutes drive away, but that drive is peppered with adventure so it feels more like 2. (By adventure, I mean that the bus sounds and feels like it will literally fall apart at any moment.) When we arrive at the Victoria Falls, we trek across a highway, on some sketchy paths, and across a railroad to get to the entrance. We frequently comment on how different the arrival would be in a country like America, even just with a sign...

Laughter is so important to me. In my mind, laughter is connected to several character traits in a person that are essential to a team, and to life in general. Traits like intense love, humility, and deep joy. A wise person once said, “A day without laughter is a day wasted.” I love the amount of joy that is constantly present in the atmosphere around our team. Whether it be through days and days of visa struggles, through the chaos of our family growing from 7 girls to 30 boys and girls overnight, or just through life here in general, there is that always present feeling of...

Well after a week of leaving the country, waiting in immigration offices for hours, talking to officials, running to the copy shop numerous amounts of time, and making many trips in and out of town WE HAVE OUR BUSINESS VISA’S!!! Thank you everyone for the prayers that are being sent our way, we can feel them daily! We Love you all, and miss you dearly!   P.S. these are 6 of the best girls that I could have ever thought of to being able to lead to Zambia. Thanks for raising them to be God fearing women who love well! I kind of really like them

I have a really really hard time being still. I like going and going and when I have a moment to be still I usually fill it with pointless junk or just find someone to talk to. I don’t usually use my alone time productively. I hate processing the things around me. Thinking too much means accepting not only the glorious things but also the things I don’t like or the things that need to change. This week and the last I’ve been sick nothing too crazy but as I only seemed to be getting worse I was asked to stay back and rest. Spending days alone on an empty compound in Africa...