The website is launched!!
Go to loveforthesakeoflove.com to see it. I've heard that some people are still having trouble viewing it if they have a slower internet connection, so if you have any problems with it please let me know so I can get them fixed.
I would love to hear your thoughts about the website. Enjoy!!
Alison
Co-founder
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
The Rush.
When i was 12 me and my friends would go to the gas station and buy 2 liter drinks of say 'mountain dew' or something else loaded with caffeine. Then we would wait until we were about to fall asleep and just down the whole drink and get a mad sugar rush for about an hour or two till we would all collapse. That's about what is going on right now. We have 4 and 1/3 days left in kampala before we have to leave and we are just working round the clock to wrap everything up that we need to finish here.
Why the load? When we first got here we had a few things that were set in stone that we knew that we would be completing, but we were also allowing God to lead us if there were other areas we could be serving. So now we have all of the connections, which have been a huge blessing to us, and we are trying to complete the task of supporting them with video and pictures. It is exciting though, to find out the next little piece at a time of what God wants us to do.
Change of pace and surroundings. Northern Kenya. Tuesday morning Ben and i will board a bus that will take us all the way to Nairobi, Kenya - a 16 hour bus ride. From there we will pick up Erin Gamble, the completion on our team that will be here in africa this summer. Let me tell you - i am so pumped for what Gods got planned for us. All i understand of where we are going is from a few conversations with George Tissire. We are passing everything, going a little farther and stopping at....well, nowhere. It will have whole new challenges from the city slum life that we have been around, and both Ben and i are full fledged ready for whatever is in store. That's the update of our schedule..
Waking up. To shift gears i would love to paint you a picture. First off, we love where we are. We live currently in a room that has the dimensions of about smallxnarrow with 3 or 4 other guys. The complex is strait up in the slums. But has its own environment. Abby Tracy was the one that connected us with the place to live and they have been the most generous people to us, allowing us to stay for free and giving us whatever they have available. We love them all. That being said...
We sleep sailor style. A triple bunk with just enough room to lay in it, not sit, not crouch, just lay. I sleep in the middle with Ben on the bottom bunk and there is one other uncle that sleeps on the top bunk. Usually on a school day the boys wake up to get ready for school at o say about 4 lightyears before the sun even thinks about rising. That or at 5:51 on the dot. Chores start then which includes washing the floor, ironing clothes, cleaning shoes. And yelling constantly. shoot. If i had to do chores before school everyday i'd be ticked too. I cant say that i have any idea what they yell about considering its in a different language, sometimes i would love to know just for a second so that i could yell too, but most of the time it's better i dont know, because it would just make my morning to find out that i was woken up over a pair of socks.
Either way i actually conquered that element and somehow found a way to train myself to sleep through most of the yelling. But being a master at something is never fun, thats why the uncle started sleeping above us. Now its a party, because right at 6:15 ish just after i have fallen back to sleep from the initial earth quake of noise the boys cause, he wakes up. Were you ever bored as a kid and tried to make your bed without getting out of it?, well i know one little boy that did. So at 6:25 just like a can of paint at home depot i am put in the tumbler for 10 to 15 minutes while the bed is being made right above me. Then around 6:50 he undoes the mosquito net that he tucked in, to put his bag back on the bed once or twice depending on the day. Lets sum it up. I now do devos in the morning because its either read about how much God loves me or plot ways to strap my fellow uncle roomate to his bed while he sleeps. Life is good.
I do love it here and the people that i am around and i thank God alone for the blessing that i have been given in my health (after malaria that prayer started) and the new family that i have become a part of in the Makerere, Kivulu, Childrens Home.
Andrew
L4L Africa team.
ps Ben and i both read Romans and now are starting to study Acts today was chapter 2. If you want to jump on board i would love to hear some of your feedback on what you have learned from the book. Thanks for reading.
Why the load? When we first got here we had a few things that were set in stone that we knew that we would be completing, but we were also allowing God to lead us if there were other areas we could be serving. So now we have all of the connections, which have been a huge blessing to us, and we are trying to complete the task of supporting them with video and pictures. It is exciting though, to find out the next little piece at a time of what God wants us to do.
Change of pace and surroundings. Northern Kenya. Tuesday morning Ben and i will board a bus that will take us all the way to Nairobi, Kenya - a 16 hour bus ride. From there we will pick up Erin Gamble, the completion on our team that will be here in africa this summer. Let me tell you - i am so pumped for what Gods got planned for us. All i understand of where we are going is from a few conversations with George Tissire. We are passing everything, going a little farther and stopping at....well, nowhere. It will have whole new challenges from the city slum life that we have been around, and both Ben and i are full fledged ready for whatever is in store. That's the update of our schedule..
Waking up. To shift gears i would love to paint you a picture. First off, we love where we are. We live currently in a room that has the dimensions of about smallxnarrow with 3 or 4 other guys. The complex is strait up in the slums. But has its own environment. Abby Tracy was the one that connected us with the place to live and they have been the most generous people to us, allowing us to stay for free and giving us whatever they have available. We love them all. That being said...
We sleep sailor style. A triple bunk with just enough room to lay in it, not sit, not crouch, just lay. I sleep in the middle with Ben on the bottom bunk and there is one other uncle that sleeps on the top bunk. Usually on a school day the boys wake up to get ready for school at o say about 4 lightyears before the sun even thinks about rising. That or at 5:51 on the dot. Chores start then which includes washing the floor, ironing clothes, cleaning shoes. And yelling constantly. shoot. If i had to do chores before school everyday i'd be ticked too. I cant say that i have any idea what they yell about considering its in a different language, sometimes i would love to know just for a second so that i could yell too, but most of the time it's better i dont know, because it would just make my morning to find out that i was woken up over a pair of socks.
Either way i actually conquered that element and somehow found a way to train myself to sleep through most of the yelling. But being a master at something is never fun, thats why the uncle started sleeping above us. Now its a party, because right at 6:15 ish just after i have fallen back to sleep from the initial earth quake of noise the boys cause, he wakes up. Were you ever bored as a kid and tried to make your bed without getting out of it?, well i know one little boy that did. So at 6:25 just like a can of paint at home depot i am put in the tumbler for 10 to 15 minutes while the bed is being made right above me. Then around 6:50 he undoes the mosquito net that he tucked in, to put his bag back on the bed once or twice depending on the day. Lets sum it up. I now do devos in the morning because its either read about how much God loves me or plot ways to strap my fellow uncle roomate to his bed while he sleeps. Life is good.
I do love it here and the people that i am around and i thank God alone for the blessing that i have been given in my health (after malaria that prayer started) and the new family that i have become a part of in the Makerere, Kivulu, Childrens Home.
Andrew
L4L Africa team.
ps Ben and i both read Romans and now are starting to study Acts today was chapter 2. If you want to jump on board i would love to hear some of your feedback on what you have learned from the book. Thanks for reading.
Saturday, June 12, 2010
In the short rows...
In Wayne/Johnston County, when a task is almost completed, folks generally say that they are "in the short rows." When working in a field, the rows get shorter at the ends. So when you reach the "short rows," you know it's quitting time soon.
My plane leaves in exactly 10 days. And it feels like I am "almost done." Almost done getting the materials I need. Almost done sorting out financial details. Almost done wondering what it will be like when I get there. Because as soon as my plane lands in Nairobi, all the pieces will fall into place and I can just rest in the peace of being where God wants to use me. I know as soon as I arrive, I will not stop learning about God's love and provision, about myself, about how to love on people in general. I know each day will be humbling and bring perspective.
Now if I can only get through these 10 days! Every once in a while, thoughts creep in to my head to make me uneasy. What if I can't find Andrew and Ben at the airport? What if something gets mixed up with my flights? What if I forget something crucial? Nevertheless, God is dealing with these thoughts as they occur and forcing me to exercise complete and total dependency on him. What a good Daddy, right?
I will be meeting Andrew's mom and Ben's mom this Sunday for prayer for the team. Also to pick up a bag to take to the boys. Apparently the need for American candy bars is pretty intense so this will be the first need I meet during this experience:)
If anyone has any packing/flying/airport advice, do tell. Otherwise, keep praying for L4L, the team in Africa, Alison, and all those involved with this. For now, I will continue counting down the short rows...
-Erin Gamble
My plane leaves in exactly 10 days. And it feels like I am "almost done." Almost done getting the materials I need. Almost done sorting out financial details. Almost done wondering what it will be like when I get there. Because as soon as my plane lands in Nairobi, all the pieces will fall into place and I can just rest in the peace of being where God wants to use me. I know as soon as I arrive, I will not stop learning about God's love and provision, about myself, about how to love on people in general. I know each day will be humbling and bring perspective.
Now if I can only get through these 10 days! Every once in a while, thoughts creep in to my head to make me uneasy. What if I can't find Andrew and Ben at the airport? What if something gets mixed up with my flights? What if I forget something crucial? Nevertheless, God is dealing with these thoughts as they occur and forcing me to exercise complete and total dependency on him. What a good Daddy, right?
I will be meeting Andrew's mom and Ben's mom this Sunday for prayer for the team. Also to pick up a bag to take to the boys. Apparently the need for American candy bars is pretty intense so this will be the first need I meet during this experience:)
If anyone has any packing/flying/airport advice, do tell. Otherwise, keep praying for L4L, the team in Africa, Alison, and all those involved with this. For now, I will continue counting down the short rows...
-Erin Gamble
Friday, June 11, 2010
finally on the road
The plan was to leave at 10:30 this morning and we pulled out of the church parking lot a little after 3. Being 5 hours behind schedule seems to be the start of any great church trip so I knew that it was a good sign. We are now a little over one hour into our 8 hour drive to Lee university in tennessee for the first two YCM conferences I'm working at this summer. Each week will have a few hundred students. I never went to any of the great escape conferences as a student so I have no idea what to expect. Its hard for me to go into the situation not knowing anything, but I know its exactly what I need. It will push me to give up all control to God. I'm excited to see what He does there and to see so many middle schoolers experience God...many for the first time.
Andrew and Ben spent the past few days doing work in Rwanda and are now back in uganda. They met with George, the missions pastor from Providence in Raleigh, today and will be working more with him this weekend.
Be on the lookout for a blog post about our website. We're finishing up the final details for it and plan to launch it soon.
Alison
Co-founder
Andrew and Ben spent the past few days doing work in Rwanda and are now back in uganda. They met with George, the missions pastor from Providence in Raleigh, today and will be working more with him this weekend.
Be on the lookout for a blog post about our website. We're finishing up the final details for it and plan to launch it soon.
Alison
Co-founder
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