Updates From:
Trainees
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A lot of my service this week has been behind the scenes, and speaking vulnerably, it is hard to do work and feel like you are not getting noticed for it. I hate even saying it out loud, but its the truth. It’s a…
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We put on a SLAM conference for 127 youth in Kenya. We hosted it in Mombasa, which is very close to the beach. We were able to facilitate a 2 1/2 day slam service camp. This was a really great time where the Lord…
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We finished a long and hard week of SLAM, only to rush into buses onto our next location. We were given amazing lunches that filled the hunger in our stomachs after a long week of service, and then off to a long drive to…
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“”Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:3 During my breakout group for SLAM Kabonge, i had the privilege of being a part of a lively discussion where SLAM students challenged eachother and reflected back to…
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A day ago, we visited Pastor Florencio’s church in Uyawi Town, Kenya. Pastor Florencio is both a pastor and one of the youth leaders on staff with SLAM of GOD Intl. The drive to his home was incredibly bumpy. Our whole team—along with Kenyan…
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This week in Kenya was short short, but so so sweet! There were many obstacles we had to work around in challenges that came up while trying to facilitate and lead this camp, get the Lord did such an amazing work. I knew that…
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We hosted a SLAM Service Camp for youth in Kabonge on GOD Intl’s campus just a week ago. Over 150 youth from all across Uganda attended—many of them coming from impoverished families, situations of lack and tragedy, and carrying grief and loss. It was…
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It was such a blessing to serve the students at the service camp in Kabonge. I was especially excited to see familiar faces from last year’s SLAM—people like Patricia, Isaac, and Derek. It was great to reconnect with them, catch up, and hear what…
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During the Second night of focus groups I was the lead in my group and one of the prompts we were doing involved getting the students to reflect on Pastor Garner’s sermon where he used the analogy of the word of God being a…
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The first half of this week was spent finishing up a leadership conference, and entering into our first SLAM week in Uganda, East Africa. We finished up a weekend of empowerment for these Ugandan and Kenyan leaders. Our weekend was spent facilitating SLAM (students…