Roommates in Hawaii

Wednesday Night Dinner for Marshallese Community

Volunteering at the IronMan

Island Adventure with the whole group! Green & black sand beaches and volcano lava tube!

Sunday’s at Living Stones Church kid’s program

My friends at the Nursing Home I volunteered often, helping at events and the best part – getting to know the MemoryCare (dementia) patients 🙂

Our weekly dance crew at the Marshallese Dinner

Kiddos at the school I volunteered at a few times a week

Heading to PNG!

Incredible waterfalls hidden in the jungle of Papua New Guinea

Speaking at our first church service! A little scary 🙂

Runner’s club we unofficially started by running through their village and kids following!

Our home for the first 5 weeks: The Pacific Link

Our home for the last 5 weeks: Wewak (Town Center)

Pretending to be a doctor, giving hundreds of shots a day!

Village teaching of basic healthcare

Love my Sepik River girls!!!

Immunization Station!

Impromtu church service in the middle of their village, Kambaramba

Daily zodiac ride to shore in one village on stilts, Kanduanum

Taught my crew of gals how to give the eye tests (since they were all standing and laughing at me anyways hahaha)

Removing eye patches after their cataract surgeries

My favorite memory: being invited to their huts, asked to bring our Bibles and nail polish, and hanging out with their whole families!

Deborah, “my PNG mama” as she said, who gave me a beautiful basket full of bananas after helping her at the optometry station

Saying goodbye on the dock at Angoram

Pacific Link Kitchen

Pacific Link Half Deck (Dinner)

Wewak Market Trip (featuring our super cool market bags)

Men’s prison church

Business devotions with the staff

Getting dirty cleaning out a warehouse for local missionaries

Warehouse: soon-to-be classroom for locals and café full of kindness and God’s love

Speaking on the radio!

Did not know we were going live for 150,000 people tuning in

Our friends at a nearby fruit/meat/drug stand we loved to visit

Village fun: games, races, bubbles, songs, stories, and lots of laughs

Loved this baby way too much

Gave my testimony at this community meeting on a huge patch of grass

Speaking about identity and value at a secondary school

Being welcomed by the elementary school we were about to share at

Tribal dancing for us!

Trying to tell jokes in their language after we spoke about God’s love at their market

Speaking at a church in my handmade gifted-to-me PNG flag dress

The bookstore staff we became super close to!

Little did I know he would follow us around all day!!

Amazing last day on a nearby island

Reppin’ all our PNG Pride

Our last time all together in Kona during debrief

Refugee Emergency Shelter

Little Syrian girl that ran up & asked me to walk her home!

Refugee camp in Essen

Packing produce for homeless people

Our Syrian friends made us a traditional dinner!

People from 6 countries bonding over Syrian food

Packing & distributing food for homeless people

Hiking in Norway!

Sunday’s Welcome Team at Church

Hanging out at the refugee shelter down the street

Found another shelter & more awesome girls!