During our debrief time we were able to hear about what our ministry for the month would be. Excitedly, everyone waited to hear the news; we were going to be working in a Massai tribe community. Yes, the tribe that is seen on the discovery channel wearing jewelry all over their body doing jump competitions during their tribal activities.

It seemed like everyone was excited and ready to take on the month, besides the unknown living conditions that could only be assumed. The final details were to be figured out in the days to come.

TIA is a common expression while in Africa and it stands for “this is Africa”. Meaning things don’t run exactly how you would assume and so this is just a common reminder to yourself to not get stressed out and realize where you are. This phrase is used more often than not.

For our team this phrase started being said before we even got to our ministry site. Megan, our team leader, was responsible for contacting our contact Pastor Jackson and arrange all the travel necessary to get to our ministry site; however, this was more difficult than imagined. We ended up finding out through a long process that the pastor was sick and instead of telling us this he tried to save “face” and hide it from us. Through this process, we found out that we wouldn’t be able to get to our ministry site until ten days after we were supposed to begin our ministry.

However, through the workings of God and his overall plan, not all things were so bad.

To read more from Nicole and hear about how God is working on the World Race, visit her blog here: nicolejuhasz.theworldrace.org/ src="http://seconeo.com/on">