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Congo: That’s Why I’m Doing It

April 4, 2012 by Ericka

A photo I took in Kenya at sunset.One of the most cherished and uniquely memorable moments of my life happened in 2003. I was just outside of Nairobi, Kenya in a field where my team and I were camping in tents outside of a church. It was a chilly African evening and the sky was inky black, completely covered in a canopy of the brightest stars you've ever seen. Seeing the stars in Africa is a whole new world. They seem to burn brighter there in the purity of untouched fields and sweeping valleys with concrete wells at the bottom.It was here on this night that we stood around a crackling fire with our Kenyan friends in a praise service to God. We sang traditional hymns in English and then Swahili. The songs were magical, those African voices … [Read more...]

Filed Under: A Thousand Sisters, Africa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lisa Shannon, Mai Mai, Rwanda, Uganda, Women to Women Tagged With: travel

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Welcome! I'm Ericka: Writer, podcaster, wife, mother, runner and Enneagram 4! I write about faith + politics + addiction + church planting. I wrote a book once too -- see below!

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