Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Kenya”
Written by Codi DTS Student Our team has traveled from the town of Jinja, Uganda, to an island that had a YWAM hospital, to a village in Kenya that had no electricity. In the last week of our outreach, the entire team is excited to have the ability to see family and friends but is sad to be leaving Kenya. …
Written by Brad DTS Student The hot rays of sunshine scorched down as our team unpacked their luggage and hammocks, bundling themselves to hide their muzungul (white people) skin from the blazing African sun. The boat carrying us across Lake Victoria leaked, and it was a gentleman’s job to bail out the water with a pail. Sunburnt and exhausted, we …
By Keaton DTS Student Africa is a beautiful continent; filled with color, culture, and crazy cuisine. Africa has also opened my eyes to some serious issues in the world. In America, Africa problems seemed all too far away to care about. However, the sight, sound and smell of poverty are all too real in person. One example of the poverty …
photo credit: Jackie Streng “Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless …
Warren Keapproth is the founder and director of YWAM Madison. He and his wife, Gayle, joined YWAM in 1972 as newlyweds in their early twenties. They're passionate about helping people discover and then do what God has called them to do. Jesus used practical ways to teach the principles of the Kingdom of God. Although he taught his disciples and …
by Sebastian, YWAM Madison staff and outreach co-leader Last week we traveled to a remote place in southeast Kenya called Kibwezi (the actual village we stayed in is called Kathyaka). This is a place without electricity or running water, but all of us just loved it. We were welcomed very warmly by the hosting church there. We were struck by …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Mqv3e7W4ds Our DTS team from Youth With A Mission Madison aided an orphanage that houses 50 kids in Kenya. We cooked, cleaned, painted, fed babies and played with the kids. We also learned the dramatic stories of their rescue from forests and dumpsters.
by Talasi Wow… I’ve never seen anything like this. I’m at a loss for words as I stand here and gaze at these magnificent giants. I feel so small; so overwhelmed; so enchanted. These are called Baobab Trees. We saw them for the first time as we travelled through the bush on our way to Kathyaka. We’re told that they …
In Kenya, we went on safari. We saw giraffes, zebras, antelopes and wildebeests. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QVaIrFt-MQ
by Talasi, DTS Student Our matatu, a bouncy 15 passenger VW van, drove our team through the bumpy roads of the Kenyan countryside to Springs of Hope Children’s Centre in Machakos. I looked forward to our first connection with the Kenyan people and couldn’t wait to share God’s love with them. I didn’t know what to expect at the children’s …
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