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"This morning I am so thankful. Thankful for every person that I love and that I am loved by. Thankful that I am forgiven and redeemed. Thankful that for freedom I have been set free and nothing can cause me…

He stole my heart instantly. He was the only one that could say my name, the only one that could hold a conversation with me, and the only one who greeted me with sweet kisses on the cheek.   Moegamat…

“Oh, you work in Ocean View…have you been robbed yet?”   That is the usual response we get when we tell local “Cape Townians” that we work in Ocean View.   Sami and I were pushing our groceries home a…

The other day we were drinking our coffee at The Mugg & Bean and we had our normal waitress. I thought to myself it’s weird that she is always at this place everyday.  Well obviously she is here everyday, she…

The final three months my team and I will be working at the Ocean View School for Persons with Disablilties. I am absolutely in love with the children and the teachers! I know that my God is not contained in…

I don’t know what I’m doing with my life, but I do know that God’s got my back. I have said that line so many times in the past month since the Lord told me not to go to school.…

I didn’t expect any of this.   I didn’t expect that my world would be wrecked. I didn’t expect that my desires would change so much. I didn’t expect that God had big and crazy plans for my life afterwards.…

As we were waiting on our bus today at the end of Bangla, we sat next to an older Thai man who was standing backwards shouting aloud as he sharped his beer bottle top on the concrete. We made the…