An estimated 24.5 million adults and children were living with HIV or AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2005. Since then, an estimated 2.7 million additional persons have acquired HIV. During 2005, an estimated 2 million people died…

I’m writing this post on what’s supposed to be my day off.  But you wouldn’t know it by looking at my schedule – take the car in to (FINALLY!!!) get the window fixed at 8am, off to ministry at 9am,…

We’ve made it!  After a LONG 24 hours of flying, we made it back into JBay last night.  And other than being utterly jetlagged, we’re doing great!  So the next couple of days we’ll be moving all of our stuff…

As almost 100 students poured into Gainesville, GA at AIM headquarters earlier this week, 40 of those that will be coming with us to Jeffreys Bay, we were blown away by their energy and excitement for answering God’s call to…

Christina and I are back at AIM Training Camp in Gainesville, GA.  For the past few days the training has been focused on us as leaders.  This year we are blessed to have a stellar leadership team of 14 people. …

We completed our first major leg of our road trip last Saturday when we arrived in Los Angeles to stay with Christina’s brother Brian for a week.  It’s been a great week, and we’ve begun to learn a number of…

Well, after multiple trips to the doctor, phone calls, and appointments, we finally got our South African visas!  We’re now cleared to volunteer in South Africa until May of ’09!  This is such a huge load of our minds, as…

It was early in the morning when we packed our water bottles, sandwiches and strapped on our Chacos to prepare for the mountain climb.  None of us knew where we were going except a few boys that had scouted the…

    We’ve written before about the epidemic of alcoholism that plagues the townships in Jeffreys Bay.  Obviously, each individual makes their own choices about it, but the plethora of taverns that litter the landscape in the townships doesn’t help.  These…