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South Africa here we come…

Posted on November 7, 2014 4 Comments

We are in the Atlanta airport eating a quick dinner and getting ready to board our long flight to Africa. Everything has gone very smooth so far. Our seats got split up a bit on this upcoming flight, so we are hoping for some seat changes when we get to the gate. We will let […]

Off to Africa

Posted on November 6, 2014 2 Comments

It is Thursday and everyone is busy getting everything in order to leave for 11 days. It seems like this past month has brought on a world of pain and hurt in my life personally. I sometimes wonder why we see so much pain, but realize this is not our permanent home, and we need […]

J-life Camp House Progress Report #2

Posted on October 18, 2014 Leave a Comment

We were able to have lunch with John yesterday. He is in the states for the next few weeks visiting friends and networking with churches. It sounds like the house is coming along well. We are deciding on flooring, kitchen shelving, etc. It was great to chat with John and discuss our future roles with […]

J-life Camp House Progress Report #1

Posted on August 10, 2014 Leave a Comment

When John & Lorna and the kids were here in December of 2013 we were discussing all of the details of us being at Camp Eden (J-life South Africa) for a year while we do our training. One of the original options for us would be to live in a town near by, but we […]

Trip 6 (June 2013)

Posted on June 5, 2013 Leave a Comment

This trip came out of some interesting circumstances God put us in on the last trip to J-life. You will need to have a little background information to really understand why we decided to travel to Malawi. As we were driving to O’Hare to board our plane for our last trip (Trip 5 – February […]

Trip 5 (February 2013)

Posted on February 1, 2013 Leave a Comment

We were all kind of getting an itch to go back to J-life. Mark and Rosemary wanted their 4 older kids to see a different culture and understand how other people live in the world. We also took our nephew, Kyle. It was fun for all of us to have so many kids on this […]

Trip 4 (July 2012)

Posted on July 6, 2012 Leave a Comment

This trip came be known as the “orphan trip”. God put it on our hearts to not only see what the orphan crisis looked like in Africa but to experience it as well – and I can tell you all of our eyes were opened to things we had never seen before. We were gone […]

Trip 3 (Jan. 2012)

Posted on January 26, 2012 Leave a Comment

Rob, Tate and Jim returned to J-life in January of 2012. Obviously this trip was more intimate as there were far fewer people at the camp. Rob, Tate and Jim were there to lay the flooring in the silos and set some cabinets and countertops. This gave the guys a glimpse of J-life without all […]

Trip 2 (Nov. 2011)

Posted on November 29, 2011 Leave a Comment

In November 2011 Rob returned again with Tate, Austin, and myself. We traveled with a group from our church to install the floor systems in the silos. I was a bit nervous about flying but after our Pastor sent us YouTube videos of planes crashing as they were taking off – I figured worst case […]

Trip 1 (Nov. 2010)

Posted on November 28, 2010 Leave a Comment

How did this journey start for us……….. In 2010 we heard John Abrahamse (the head of J-life) speak at our church. In his sermon he briefly mentioned Swaziland. For those of you that don’t know, Swaziland is a small country inside the country of South Africa. We had a sponsored child from Swaziland and so […]