Below is a short word written by the brother of a friend who helped us get our passports picked up from the Cameroonian Embassy before my January trip.   What a sweet reminder that I am doing what the Lord…

                                               patients waiting to be seen       I am in love with the country and people of Cameroon. They captured my heart a few years ago and I haven’t been able to let them go. Spending the…

  Loving children comes easily for me. I see them and can fall in love in an instant. The past 2 months, I have had the privilege of working with kids at the Hotpec Orphanage in Cameroon, Africa. Hotpec cares for true…

I am overwhelmed. My heart is full of joy and broken at the same time. I love the family that I am staying with. My heart is broken when I realize that the boys in the house have been using…

  I spent a few days doing Prison Ministry in two different cities. What an eye-opener.  The first prison we went to had men and women together in the general population and that was interesting. The ministers I went with…

The alarm goes off at 4:30 a.m. It doesn’t take me long to get ready in the morning but things here take much more time than “normal.” The children and the staff have “family” devotions at 5:30 but that is…

Africa is my continent and Cameroon is my country… I absolutely love it here. To come from a place of never desiring to visit, to having a longing and yearning in my heart to get back here truly amazes me.…

  After a few drama filled days and a slight panic attack with our passports being at the embassy during a snowstorm in DC, we have made it to Cameroon! I could not be more excited. As the plane was…

  You met Sophia in an earlier blog. Since that time I have gotten to know her much better myself.  Sophia is an orphan. She is two years old and has lived most of her life in an orphanage. She was very…