It’s coming! On Saturday, August 3, we launch our final SEED team of the summer and we can’t wait to watch our student-athletes learn and grow. The team will travel to Zambia to partner with the on-going ministry of Poetice. Hope College student-athletes have been serving with this organization since 2017. Hope student-athletes will help …
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Mwisho (The End)
A Day Spent in God’s Creation June 7th, 2024 Today was a day spent in the middle of the wild African fields in Kenya. The Safari resort we ventured to was Masai Mara, a five-star safari resort. We began the day by taking smaller bush planes to travel to Masai Mara. It was an adventurous …
The End of the Journey
“Safari” in Swahili means journey. More to come soon!
Day 6 (6/6/24)
A Day in Mukuru Hello friends (rafiki)! This is Michael Mileski and Laura Taylor. Today we visited the Sport Outreach base in Mukuru and were able to be a part of the beginning of a relationship between Sports Outreach and The Bucket Ministry. We started with worship and morning devotions where we read and further …
Day 5 (6/5/24)
The Local Ministry Hello friends, Mambo! This is Brayden Freidhoff and Jada Garner. Today we joined our friends at the Bucket Outreach ministry in the Kiberan slum. This community based organization led, run, and managed by Kenyans distributes buckets and water filters to the community. The buckets are used as a ministry for the work …
Day 4 (6/4/24)
A day of school and sport: Hi everyone! This is Juli Kirkpatrick and Luke Stuck! We started off our day joining our friends back at Sports Outreach in Kibera. We headed into the slum and visited five local schools to distribute and teach about Sawyer water filters. A few of us had the opportunity to …
Day Two (06/03/24)!
Hey guys! It is day three in Kenya and it’s Liv Dieppa and Kyle McVittie. Today we started our journey in devotion with the Sport’s Outreach team. First, the Sport’s Outreach team opened our time together in worship. The pure joy of the Lord and genuine happiness of all the people of Kenya was so …
Day of Worship
Hello! Today Will Tobias and Lexie Dehoop will be writing the blog post. We began our first day on ground at Grace House Resort with complimentary breakfast. Fresh juice, fruit, omelettes are just the start of the amazing Kenyan food. Their hospitality is amazing. We got into our huge van and headed to church, we …
We Arrived!
Hello Friends and Family back at home. Lauren Lee and Tyler King writing here! Neck is a little sore from sleeping vertical and/or on benches. The flight was very very long but was filled with many enjoyable meals and sweet treats. Tyler and I loitered around the bathroom for about 10 minuted during our 8.5h …
C ya CR 🇨🇷🫶
Hello everyone–it’s Cara and Justin! We apologize for not catching you up last night. After a wonderful last day in La Casona with the Guaymí people, we left for Jaco about 40 water filters lighter! We are all so thankful for the incredible memories that we have with the students in Puntarenas, the Pastor’s family, …