July 2024 Trip
An Everyday Holy
How do we find the sacred in the everyday? A early cup of coffee. A grocery store trip, picking out cookies. A long tar road. So many questions for our Swazi friends. An expectant group of friends at Lesibovu, waiting hungrily to hear the…
Partners in Christ
What does it mean to be in a partnership? Today we traveled from the Lubombo region to Mbabane, the capital city of Eswatini, with quite a few stops along the way – petrol, the mile long market, the Mantenga craft…
For the Generations
A classic Swazi Sunday – Sunday School, church with all of the praising and dancing and rejoicing, lunch, rest, and an evening meal with friends. Nothing beats it, honestly. This morning Jimmy brought the word on Genesis 26, where Isaac…
Called
Watching the calling come alive never.gets.old. We had a full day of Swazi experiences – bible study and children’s ministry (50 kids!), pick ups, drop offs, bread crumbs scattered across the trunk of the van, driving all over kingdom come,…
Along the Road
The day broke open wide along the road this morning with a quick grocery trip for supplies, a petrol stop, and a meeting with the Horst family, a US missionary family living in the Nsogo area of Eswatini. We got…
Breathe
After one delayed flight, one extra flight, one rerouted bag, one briefly missing bag, one six hour drive and one strange border crossing, we have arrived in Eswatini. And finally we breathe! There’s always a push-pull feeling coming back to…
