Kenya Video: Short Version

Hello- If you tried to watch the Kenya Video yesterday and saw that it was 20 minutes and stopped, you may like this version better. Its alot of the same, boiled down into a shorter version.  And there are a couple of cameos and soundbites in the short version that you wont find in the…

Thirteen Years of Passion

In 1998, while a college student at Union University, I traveled to Texas with a group of about 200 other Union students to attend Passion 98. This was a gathering of college students over New Years who wanted to learn more about God and grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. Alot of my friends…

Do Good This Week

As you may know, my friends and I started a non-profit foundation to fund medical, educational and feeding programs in Kenya. We founded David’s Hope International in 2009 after returning from a mission trip to Eburru, Kenya where we saw the desperation first hand.  Since that time, the foundation continues to bless the children and…

Show Us Your Life – Mission Trips

My dear friend and fellow blogger Mrs. Patra introduced me to a new blog where they have this series “Show Us Your Life” where other bloggers are invited to share links to their blog about the top de jour.  Today the topic is Mission Trips and Patra promptly passed along her encouragement to me to…

Oh, Nine…

As we bid farewell to 2009 I have to admit that in my heart I am saying, “Good Riddance!!” This was the first year of my life that I attended more funerals than weddings, worked harder and longer than I have since Saxby’s 2002 Senate race, and struggled through a depression that lingered like bad…

A New Season

I am so back! September sucked people, ok it just sucked bad.  There were a couple of bright spots, or bright sides as the case may be, but if I had to use one word to sum up September it would have to be TANK.  So now that September is DUNZO I am SO THRILLED…

15 dollars can do more than save a life in Eburru

Now that Jeff is back from Kenya, I have compiled all his videos and photos on my computer and came out with the first of I’m sure several videos of whats going on in Eburru.  This video shows, at a very high level excatly whats going on in Eburru, a few interviews with the in…

Feed a Child, Save a Life

As many of you know, on my recent mission trip to Kenya, my medical mission team had the unique opportunity to serve two feasts to the children and families we worked with in Eburru and Kibera. I am so thrilled to share with you that these children are feasting again this week, even as we…

An African Update, a New Venture, and a New Website

Friends: As many of you know, Brian and I went on a life changing missions trip to Kenya earlier this year.  Since returning from Kenya, my teammates and I, under the visionary leadership of fellow team member Jeff Trexel, have started a foundation to continue the work of the Lord we had the privilege to…

Book Review: The Hole in Our Gospel

This new book by World Vision U.S. President Rich Stearns, published by Thomas Nelson Publishing,  is an excellent survey regarding poverty, Christian responsibility, and the global church. The book is lengthy, nearly 300 pages, and ends with a call to action by President Stearns: You, Me, Let’s Go! We have work to do and its…