Adam McLane

Category: Zimbabwe

  • We Are Winning

    I’ve got a guest post over at the 30 Hour Famine blog. Go check it out.

  • Break the Funk Out

    It’s been a month since my trip to Zimbabwe. I’m still processing the whole thing. I can tell you everything I saw but I have a hard time describing what it all means. The past few weeks we’ve hit a little hole in our personal finances. When you own a business there are cycles during…

  • Making Youth Ministry More Programmatic, Again

    I’ve been unable to shake two things about my trip with World Vision from an organizational perspective. Locals lead everything. I’m sure there are Americans working for World Vision Zimbabwe, but we didn’t meet many. This completely surprised me. I expected the lowest level volunteers, those overseeing food distribution and looking after child sponsors, to be locals.…

  • Infidelity to Your First Love

    When you first fall in love, it’s easy to remain faithful. But infidelity to your life’s purpose sneaks in quietly and distracts you from your love. In this post, Adam McLane looks at Revelation 2 and challenges youth workers to come back to their first love of serving students.

  • The Long Road Home

    The past 72 hours are a blur There was the sadness felt as we left the Insiza Area Development Program (ADP) for the last time. It’s almost assured that I’ll never go back there. There was the quick goodbye to the Woodland Inn, the bed & breakfast we called home Monday through Thursday.

  • The Steak Holder

    An awkward moment passed as glances were exchanged between two Zimbabwean men. Hillary, the Area Development Manager, turned and looked at the farmer who had just spoken. Acting as a translator you could see that Hillary didn’t know exactly what to tell us about what the farmer had just said.

  • We Brought the Rain

    It seems like every time we get out of the trucks it starts to rain. For us, a fun and sometimes uncomfortable happening. For members of the Insiza Area Development Program (ADP) this is a welcome bit of fortune. The rains are late in Zimbabwe. They were expected in October but by early January the…

  • Joys and Terrors of Immersion

    The fact that you read yesterday’s post yesterday is just one of the many amazing things about today. Lets start there. This morning we started at the World Vision regional headquarters in Bulawayo. There we got a brief tour of their office and prayed with the staff there. From there we drove to the Insiza…

  • Immerse: The Big Shift

    30 hours of travel from Seattle to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe is over. If you haven’t done a 30 hour trip one way, I highly recommend it. It is completely incomprehensible and indescribable, simultaneously joy-filled adventure & the constant, aching pain of airline induced physical discomfort mixed with boredom. (Most of us watched 3 movies, read a…

  • What am I doing here?

    Staring at the screen of the monitor in front of me, the little airplane icon just crossed from the Atlantic Ocean to Guinea. 7 and a half hours left in our flight. Guinea. Africa. What am I doing here? No seriously. I’m on a fifteen hour flight, a million miles from home, I have no…