http://benscholten.myadventures.org Ben Scholten First Year Missionary - Where's The Heart At? en-us Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:29:34 GMT 30 http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=bla http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=bla Hello, I am rather sick, and have been for two weeks. My right ear doesn't work so good, and I feel like my head is in an aquarium. If you would please pray for me that'd be great. The reason you see so few blogs of me is I sent all my supporters family and freinds my facebook notes instead of adventures blogs, so sorry that you're left out of the loop. God's awesome. Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=join-the-awakening-discipleship-missions http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=join-the-awakening-discipleship-missions Awaken to the Adventure Disciples aren't born; they're made. It's a process that takes time, discipline, and God. In reality, it looks more like waking up than attending a class. As part of The Awakening, you can undergo a discipleship program like no other, experiencing four months of intense training in another country to prepare you for the ministry that awaits you for the rest of the year.Join The Awakening Your mornings will be spent in training and your afternoons Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=thando http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=thando In early December I met a boy named Thando. He's ten years old and incredibly smart for having never gone to school. For four years his mother has tried to get him into school, but has always been denied school because they have never had a child in a wheelchair before. So Thando sat at home while his brother and sister went.             One day as my team was doing a Bible lesson to the pre-school age kids, we had the kids bring in their Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=two-days-in-swazi http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=two-days-in-swazi Lately I've been really requesting Joy of the Lord. It was the first thing I thought of one morning as I lay in Bed. Then a paper with Psalms 138 fell off the wall and onto my face. Then for the last week it seemed Joy is all I could get around here. Days in Swaziland.On the public back from the care point Bailey was talking to a friendly guy. You have to be careful about how you mention what you're doing here, because Swazis often like to put you on th spot and ask you to preach right then and Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=good-africa-bad-africa-hey-its-all-just-africa http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=good-africa-bad-africa-hey-its-all-just-africa       Today we got pulled over by the cops, (really, he just waved us off the road because it was a woman driving a van of girls and a guy.) And he wanted to give a spot fine. (Which means money in his pocket) He threatened R1000 (which is about $120 US) but we talked him down to a bag of our peanuts. Last week one of the ladies got waved over by a lady cop, who yelled a bunch, and then got the driver to go behind the koombie (minivan) and talk to her. It was then "If y Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=god-will-use-you-when http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=god-will-use-you-when I'm in an internet cafe, and the internet sucks, but I'll try to get a bit off.I could type for an hour on the things going on here. I'll just say this:When the things in my head travel down 18 inches to my heart, I think I will die.Because it's like living in a picture made to have you donate money, to make you guilty and feel bad for doing nothing. But at the same time, the most powerful thing is the easiest.Sometimes it gets hard to pray, because you can't even understand what happened to you Fri, 5 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=goodbyes http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=goodbyes The time has come to leave...   But first I have to appologise to the FYMer's who may waste their time reading this, it's more for the people I've been giving out this blog address to.   I will miss you all so much. I have no idea what's going to go on in 11 months, most of which I have so little idea of what's going on, and no real plan for getting home after hiking after the missions with Dirk Brussow, and a bit of a vague Christmas Plan. But, I have Sat, 1 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=insurance-for-canadians http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=insurance-for-canadians Hey everybody! This e-mail is for Canadians looking to get their travel insurance. A while back we got an e-mail reccomending the group rate for AIM through an American provider. At $1 mil coverage and $100 deductable, it costs base $1003.25 for internationals. (Canadians) So I bought it, and was quicly informed of my error. And I quickly cancelled it. Due to part coverage by the Canadian health care system, it's much cheaper for Canadian companies to give Canadians coverage. Wed, 9 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=walk-till-you-drop http://benscholten.myadventures.org/?filename=walk-till-you-drop Around Christmas, I found God leading my heart to missions in South Africa. I designed a fundraising event called walk till you drop.        In walk till you drop, I would get people to sponsor me some money per kilometer to walk as far as I can, not until I give up be Tue, 1 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT