Kenya is the Place

Kenya is where we’re going.  We could not be more excited to join alongside John and Habona and the entire Ray of Hope staff.  Both Ruthie and I have lived in Africa individually for years (me in South Africa and Ruthie in Liberia) and it’s such an honor to move back there.  While we know the challenges will be great, we cannot deny that our hearts simply beat a little faster when our feet are on the African continent.

We both come from one of the most blessed places on earth; the Shenandoah Valley.  However, we’ve had the priviledge to travel the world and see regions where the blessings are not evident.  In fact, we’ve been to places where the pain, lack of justice, lack of honor, and depletion of love is so grand that we find it unacceptable.  To cheesily quote JRR Tolkien, “we believe there’s some good in this world, and we believe it’s worth fighting for.”  We go to Kenya to love the coast with the love and justice and peace we’ve found.

No Attention Span Generation

This is the first Blog that I’ve ever written.  I grew up in the “short attention span” generation and I feel this new generation is the “no attention span” generation.  We slowly declining into a society that can no longer focus on one piece of information for more than a few minutes before their collective minds start to wander.  In fact, most of born after the Generation Y cut-off have probably already stopped reading this entry.  How will we teach this new generation?  We have 1.5 hour long classes and yet most of them can only concentrate on one theme for 30 minutes.  I don’t think it’s their fault either.  They have to process more information now in one hour, as a teenager, then most people earlier in the century would have to process in their entire lives.  To be continued….

I saw this video today and thought I’d share it:

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