Well I have unsuccessfully kept this a secret long enough, so now I invite you to join with me in excitement. I am going to Africa. I leave in May and will be back in July. I'm overjoyed and cannot stop daydreaming about what will be happening in the upcoming months, not just while I'm there but also the time before and after. I have no doubt in mind that I will return changed, impacted. I will fall in love and my heart will break. I will smile and cry. I will experience more than my mind can fathom.
We leave a week after school gets out in May. When I say 'we', I mean my friend, Kristin, and I. We are flying to Uganda to work in an orphanage and a school for six weeks. There are about 150 AIDS orphans living on the site and around 250 kids in the school. Then we will fly to Kenya to work in a small orphanage for three weeks. Kristin and Sara have been to this orphanage already, and I'm surrounded by stories, pictures, and videos from their trips there. Going to Kenya will be special because it will bring all of their pictures and stories to life for me.
God has such amazing plans that I cannot even begin to see. Please pray as I prepare for this new adventure, and also pray for the people I will come in contact with, not only there but also here in the US.
This is a video of pictures from Sara's first trip to the orphanage in Kenya, where Kristin and I will spend the second half of our trip.
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