home again.

Our team clockwise from me: Elsie, Joel, John, Dave, Will, Mandy, Me [Stephanie wasn't here for the picture] 

The older, sweet sweet  girls of Canaan

Our smallest malnutrition clinic patient yet, Gaile. Barely 9 pounds at 18 months. Look at her compared to my hand ... tiny. 

I am home safely to the States now. Thank you so much for your prayers, encouraging words, emails, and support. I could never have gone without you. Your prayers made everything possible – so thank you for being a part of saving children’s lives and spreading the word of God. I pray someday maybe you will get to go in person to see the beautiful people you have been praying for.

To sum up my experience would be impossible. I don’t know how to answer the simple question “how was your trip?” It was a million things each changing a piece of me. It was wonderful and fun, funny and exciting, heartbreaking, heart wrenching, difficult and easy, hot and cold, long and short, tiring and filling - - and a million other conflicting things.

I am different. I’m sure- as it is with most short term mission projects – that I am the one who did the most changing. God has opened my eyes to a world I knew existed but never grasped the depth of its reality. And now… I know He wants me to do something about it.

I would ask as I adjust back into the routine of American life that you pray I do not forget the lessons He taught me and the call He has whispered to me to change the world. That I never forget the hungry, the poor, or the broken. May my heart remain soft to those in need and my resolve to seek justice stay strong.

Thank you my dear friends,
Brittan