Kelly Chadwick, the Director of our Real Life ministries, and recently returned from Kenya.  While there, she heard an amazing story of a man who said he would only believe in God if God would end the drought.  And so God sent rain… Two days after our Real Life Kenya team hit African soil, they were given a few tents and sent into the bush with the Maasai tribe for a week. Their assignment? Door to door evangelism. (Well, maybe hut to hut is more accurate!)  So they headed out, confident in the Lord if not in themselves. But for several...

Jenna, a Real Life participant in Kenya, shares a story about a lady she has been ministering to during her time in Africa… Louis is a lady who has been in the woman’s ward at the hospital since October paralyzed from the waste down from an accident. Everyday the doctors have to rotate her on all sides so that bed sores don’t form. When we 1st met Louis she was this sweet, timid lady who would barely look at us. She loved to sing, but she would never sing for us- we just has to sing for her. She could barely lift herself up; she had no strength in her arms and...

Neil Bruinsma, a World Race alumnus, shares in this heartbreaking story of how he has helped to father some of the orphans of Swaziland… We had just pulled into the carepoint in Thulwani.  The kids gathered around the big tree to welcome our arrival.  I noticed a boy sitting on a concrete slab all by himself.   His leg looked bandaged up.  I immediately went over to him and with the help of our translator I ask what was wrong.   Apparently three days ago he had fallen off the back of a motorcycle and was dragged some how.   I...

Debbie is currently on a Real Life team in Swaziland.  The Swazi’s have experienced a tremendous amount of pain and devastation due to AIDS.  It is believed that their country is slowly dying off as a result a.  Debbie shares feeling heartbroken and helpless for the people dying in this country. I’m not sure how many times I will say on this trip how in awe I am that God called me to Africa and I’m finally here. At times I don’t feel as though I’m even really in Swaziland although my senses drastically tell me otherwise. My eyes see...

Our Real Life team in Kenya shares this story of seeing the spiritual realm manifest in a new way.  Please pray for them as they continue to see the kingdom advance! Tomorrow morning will mark our second week long excursion into the Kenyan bush to reach out with The Holy Spirit and expect great things from God.   The Turkana people are one of the many ethnic tribes here in Kenya and our whole team has the oppurtunity to spend a week with them teaching, preaching, visiting houses in the community and fellowshipping with the localized church body. I have already spent...

Ryan Bodine is a Real Life participant ministering in Swaziland.  Swaziland is rife with orphans, more often than not because of AIDS.  He shares the following encounter… We went to the hospital today.  The hospital is nothing like what we are used to in America. They are separated into three different wards: men’s, women’s and children’s. The wards have different sections that have around 8 beds per section. There is no privacy and they only have single rooms for patients with tuberculous.  People lay out in the open for...