Adventures in Photos By Grace

Life at Makapala...

YWAM Foundational Value # 9 skit

Grace and I at the Masquerade (She was Tigger, I was Little Red Riding Hood)

Tina (from Montreal) one of my staff buddies. She taught me how to make lei's and also leads a hula class a few times a week.

Cynthia... what to say? another staff buddy whom I love.

Grace and Kara

My staff buddy Jen. I like this picture cause it's her usual facial expression.

Ladies and Gentlemen: Dan Shannon
He was our speaker the first week and we liked him so much we keep kidnapping him from kona and bringing him back. Everytime he comes though there is an earthquake.

Staff Chele with Grace at the beach (Grace took all these pictures). I don't know Chele very well but we have good hugs. I like her.

The Care Bears at the Masquerade. (Brit, Amy, and Deborah)

Kara and I in town. Kara is one of my outreach leaders and also my one on one. She is beautiful and kind. I love her.

The one and only Sara Biggs. One of my favorite people in the entire world.

Adventures in more photos

Brit and I at the beach.

Adventures in Uganda Preparation

Tonight's outreach team meeting was so exciting! We heard from a guy named Dan Shannon who actually taught the first week of our school. He has been to Uganda and showed us photos of an orphanage where we could be going.

About every six months a child dies there. The place is called "Heaven's Gate" because it is to prepare children for heaven. Each child is either HIV positive or has full blown AIDS. They teach them hope and how much Jesus loves them. There is a wall in one of the main areas where there is a photo of every child who has died there.

We saw video clips of the children skipping rope and singing. They looked so happy. All the girls have their hair braided with little beads on the end. They are so beautiful. We also saw photos of babies in cribs. All these babies and children are HIV positive and have either been abandoned or have lost their parents to AIDS. With the help of medicines provided at this orphanage many of them live to be teenagers and beyond. A small infection or virus however can deteriorate their health very quickly.

Tomorrow is never promised to them. Yet they have come to have hope in God.

The children are so beautiful. Nothing in me is worthy of getting to meet them.

Adventures in Photographs

(above) the main campus in Kona. This is where we line up for food every Thursday when we travel to Kona.



(above) The stairs up to the main campus. They lead from the front gate (below) up to the GO Center (Global Outreach Center).

Adventures in Destiny

Hey everybody.
This week at DTS is very exciting. We are studying Destiny in Christ. The speaker is a lady named Gwen (I can't spell or pronounce her last name so I won't try). It's really exciting to learn what God's dreams for your life are. Especially because He's usually put the desires in our hearts already.

Tonight we have a special session by our very own Dr. Carey Gear about HIV/AIDS. He is on our DTS staff and is leading the outreach to Zambia with this school. I am looking forward to learning more so that we can teach it when we get to Africa.

I have a little cold right now, but it's not getting me down. I napped for about two hours this afternoon on the lawn. I also took the shuttle into the store after class and bought some kleenex and halls.

Well, I need to go make a Lei for Dr. Carey because he's speaking tonight. We honor each speaker that comes with a Lei, and it's part of my work duty to make them.

Love,
Em

Adventures in a Hawaiian Sunset

Adventures in Makapala

View from lecture hall door.

The lecture hall where we have class.

Makapala area.

What the roads are like.

my friend Jenn (DTS staff)

My friend James the Gecko.


Girls playing in the rain.

People sticking their God-dreams on a giant map of the world.

The dorm (the Canadian flag on the right hand corner is on my bed).

My space in the dorm.

Adventures with Outreach

The Ugandan Flag


Map of Uganda



Check out Uganda in Eastern Africa.

Adventures with Grace

Hey!

Here is my friend Grace and I at the market in town this past Saturday. The market is "under the Banyan tree" in Hawi (the name of a town, not the state spelled wrong). Everything in Hawi happens under the Banyan tree. If you ask someone where anything is they just say "under the Banyan tree" and they won't tell you WHERE the Banyan tree is. Country directions.

On Monday I'm going to try and post photos of the dorm where I live and the classroom, etc..

I am officially going to Uganda for my outreach! Sara and Kara (two of my favorite people in the world!) are leading the outreach so I am very excited. God is being so good to us already. We have prayer times asking Him where in Uganda we are to go. A few places have come up but nothing is finalized yet.

I'll let you know when I have more details.

Love,
Em