...seek first His Kingdom....

I love it here : )

I am not a city girl at all but I have loved my week at the Joseph Project here in Jo-burg so far. In the mornings we have been working on preparing presentations about human trafficking to take to schools in the area. And then in the afternoons during the afterschool program, I am working in the "seedlings" class and I love it : ) Those kids are just great and its only been a few days. I can't think about saying bye to them in a week. It's crazy the difference when you can actually talk to the kids you are working with....

Today I signed up to do the devo for our family here. God really put it on my heart to talk about something He has been teaching me lately. For the past few weeks He has been showing me what it means to have a "Kingdom view." He has been challenging me to look beyong the physical, earthly world and see His kingdom.

God has called us all to bring His Kingdom to this world. Heaven isn't a world to look forward to...its a world in the here and now.

His Kingdom is fillled with laughter, joy, peace, love, grace, unity, fellowship....so that is what we are called to be makers of on this earth.

My heart has been breaking while preparing presenations to warn kids about human trafficking. It breaks even more when I think about the fact that many of the kids here that will be trafficked will have better living conditions than before they were trafficked. How sick and wrong can this world get? This world needs His kingdom desperately.

We need peace....and we need love...

We need hope.

I've fallen in love....

So my heart has been captured....

.....by some adorable and incredible children in Zambia : ) Yes, I was pretty much about to fit them into my suitcase but one of my leaders told us that kidnapping is against the rules- darn. They were some of the sweetest kids I have ever met. One little boy, who lived near a youth camp we ran, was known as "Kelly's boy" because he basically followed me every where I went and even looked from me at 6 AM the morning after I left : (

The past month was an amazing experience! In one month we helped run an orphan school, worked at a youth camp, painted pictures on classroom walls, took meals to prisoners in jail, prayed for people in a clinic, spent a night in a village only able to be accessed by boat, and climbed the SECOND longest waterfall in the continent of Africa!! It was so awesome and the lake where we stayed was one of the most beautiful places Ive ever been in my entire life.

Yesterday we got to Jo-burg where we will be for the next two weeks. Today we went for a prayer walk around the city and walked specifically around the stadium where the World Cup games will be held. I love the ministry here. It is going to be a great two weeks : )

I love you guys and miss you. Keep praying for me...I am praying for you : )