Hello friends, I apologize for not explaining the where and how donations can be given. Because the vast majority of my readers are overseas, the easiest way to give is financially. There are two ways to do this, depending on your…

  If you read my last blog, then you know that we are starting up YMS (Youth Mission Solutions) youth group this Saturday. It is a lot of work and energy starting from scratch, but we are very excited about…

This is the latest post on our YMS (youth program) blog. It’s a nice update of what I’ve been doing in the past four weeks. If you’d like to check out our blog, the address is youthmissionsolutions.blogspot.com Dear Friends! Thank…

“Africans are very clean people, they expect tidiness”…”In Africa, everyone prays at once when you gather”…”Some people really do believe sleeping with a virgin cures AIDs.” A team of volunteers arrived from Alabama earlier this week and these are just…

I’ve been searching for a place to call my own for quite some time now. I grew up in Livermore, CA until age 18, moved on to Redding until age 23, and for the last two years have been living…

If you have facebook, you may have already read the story of how I got engaged. If not, enjoy!   Piet came down to Port Elizabeth on Friday April 23 to help me close up my time there and help…

It’s always good and important to go back through everything God has taught you in a certain season in your life to never forget these life lessons. I’ve taken the last few hours just thinking about my time in PE.…

One of the girls that I mentor always says I’m obsessed with counting and numbers. I can remember being 9 or 10 and hearing my mom shouting across the house, “Leah? What’s the church’s phone number?”…”Leah? What’s Grandma and Grandpa’s…

I just wanted everyone to see Pastor Prosper and his wife Angela and some of their kids that we hang out with on a Sunday afternoon!                            …