http://scottborg.myadventures.org Scott Borg - Adventures In Missions - en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:02:26 GMT 30 http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=first-year-missionary http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=first-year-missionary Saying Goodbye To Swaziland Coming here has been an adventure full of challenges, triumphs, and my growth as a man of God. I have been lead Sun, 18 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=swazi-news http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=swazi-news SWAZILAND: Every third woman sexually abused as a child, says report Photo: IRIN An alarming number of girls in Swaziland have been abusedMBABANE, 9 April 2008 (IRIN) - One in three Swazi women has suffered some form of sexual abuse as a child; one in Mon, 5 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=building-opportunity http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=building-opportunity One of the things I do is help advocate for our Peruvian base and the director there, Bob Cooley.  The story below summarizes the amazing things happening in Peru with a unique set of circumstances that have come together to provide and opportunity to go there and build some houses for people who lost their homes in the big earthquake last year.  If you are interested (I've underlined the opportunity below) in joining a group of people to do some ground breaking construction in Peru, l Thu, 1 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=life-in-swaziland http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=life-in-swaziland I haven't said much about Swaziland for a while. There are good things happening there but the dying continues. I am copying a letter I read on a blog from one of our First Year Missionaries currently in Swaziland. The letter is written by a 7th grade boy in the school where she is interning as a teacher.Life in Swaziland is hard - mixed with harsh realities including traditional witchcraft medicine. Here is what this boy Bonginkosi had to say when asked to write his own life story: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=what-i-am-working-on http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=what-i-am-working-on Here is a new program I am working on for AIM.  It is coming out of my 2 years of school at Fuller.  I am incorporating a lot of what I am learning in developing this concept.  If you know anyone who would be interested, let me know!  It is primarily for those 20 somethings who are looking for more personal development in their life.  It will be a great place for people coming off FYM and other AIM programs to put into practice in the US what they learned overseas.  Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=rejoicing-and-silence http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=rejoicing-and-silence It's been a while since I've written in my blog. Honestly since Christmas it's been hard to know what to say. Lately I've been following the stories being written by some of our teams in Swaziland about a baby named Moses. You can read more about the sad story here and here. One of the great things happening in our family is that Josiah is getting married to Meredith the end of May. Also, Sam and Jill as well as Anna and Elliot are giving us grand children numbers 1 (due in July Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=jesus-in-jbay http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=jesus-in-jbay I've been home from Africa for almost 2 weeks.  I was there for about 9 days involved in a leadership conference we were holding for our Africa First Year Missionary's (FYM).  We were in Jeffrey's Bay - a beautiful sea-side town where one of our FYM teams minister year round.  I'd like to tell you about one story that happened while I was there.  A group of the staff were having a going away meal for those of us leaving the next day.  The cell phone rang Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=traveling-man http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=traveling-man         I have been doing a lot of traveling lately.  At the end of October I went to Mexico for a few days to spend time with the First Year Missionaries (FYM) and staff there.  It was a good trip where I had the opportunity to teach some on character.  Also, one day I went to the prison there in Matamoros with one of our staff and an FYM who is doing an internship there.  It was an amazing experience to meet two inmates who run a Christ Sun, 25 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=june http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=june I am sitting here trying to figure out what all to tell you after a month on the ground.   I could tell you about the day Marcia and I went to speak at an AIDS support group - six or 8 brave people who meet under a tree every other week to encourage each other in their struggle.   Then there was the day Marcia went with a medical team that was here to the hospital - and walked in a room as the 1 year old baby of a very young Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=our-swazi-home http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=our-swazi-home We want to tell you a little about where we are living.   We live on what is known as a rural homestead.   Usually, an extended family will live on a homestead made up of between 5 and 20 acres.   Historically, the homestead was the center of Swazi society.   Subsistence farming and extended family living were central to the worship of ancestors and governance from the local Chief who reports to the King.   Our homestead would be conside Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=week-2-update http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=week-2-update We are healthy and safe here in Swaziland.   This past week has been great but busy!   We had a group here from Colorado Springs Vanguard Church.   36 people - mostly adults - who came to build a kitchen, run a medical clinic, teach the volunteer Swazi teachers, and hold a VBS.   The week went fast but it really did go well.   The group was great to work with and they did a great job at their ministries! Marcia worked a Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=couch-seat-or-coach-seat http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=couch-seat-or-coach-seat I'm sitting on my couch watching ESPN with my laptop on my lap for the last time for 2 months. There's an apprehension in leaving for Africa tomorrow. Sitting in row 70 seat H for 15 hours isn't something I particularly look forward to. There are people to help and adventures to be had. But then there are people and comforts here I don't want to leave. Family, Friends, Free Refills, and Fast internet. This time there will be more of the first Mon, 28 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=back-to-africa-again http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=back-to-africa-again That's right - we're going back to Africa.   Again.   Our last trip went well and we stayed busy helping with a group of people coming to see what is happening with orphans in Africa.   We saw a lot of things and several of the people are interested in getting more involved! On this trip we will be helping again with orphan work and also helping host several teams of people coming to serve.   During the month of June there will be 200 peop Fri, 4 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=changed http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=changed Last week I met some people that changed me. The rare kind where one is changed genuinely. The kind of change where something deep inside in an area rarely accessed at least cognitively, is touched - moved - shaken - changed. Sometimes those changes are loud and wet and emotional and everyone knows about it. Other times there is a profound minor degree - a minor shift of a personal cosmic universe You might ask what these people did, or what Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=unanswerable-questions http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=unanswerable-questions I dont know what to say after today.   Why?   Why?   Why God?   How can this be?   Today I visited a head of household homestead where the kids have no parents and are living on their own.   There are 3 sisters, 18, 14, and 12.   Their mother and father dies 2 years ago from AIDS.     As we drove off the main gravel road and onto a secondary gravel road and on again to more of a path than anything th Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=waiting-in-africa http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=waiting-in-africa Returning to Swaziland has been remarkable yet unremarkable. There are a few changes after being gone 15 months, but most things are the same. Its amazing to see so many of the same people doing the same thing. I guess that has struck me I am not sure why I expected so many things to be different. I guess because our own lives have changed so much since we were last here. Today Marcia went to see the ladie Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=the-difference-a-year-makes http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=the-difference-a-year-makes A year is an interesting amount of time.  Can you remember being a little kid?  I year was FOREVER!  That's why going from being 8 to being 9 was a HUGE deal.  Then, as time goes by, you look at years going by a little bit faster.  You enter college a freshman and before you know it, you are graduating and somewhere in there you utter for the first time, "Where did the time go?"  But even in your 20's and 30's you see a year as a short amount of time and als Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=memory http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=memory Its been almost 2 months since mom died.   People ask me how I am doing.   I guess I am doing fine normal grief?   Its the weirdest life vacuum I cant explain when I stop and think shes gone.   Forever.  I am not really that sad much anymore just kind of empty in some places. It takes some intentionality to remember her the way I want to.   I still see her in that hospital bed in the living room struggling to breath, hanging onto t Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=eulogy http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=eulogy Nancy Marilyn Joy was born March 8, 1932 in Des Moines Iowa to Max and Esther Joy.   While growing up on 36th street, she attended Rice Elementary and Callanan Junior High.   During her childhood, Nancy enjoyed raising various pets and retained this appreciation for animals all her life. At North High School she participated in several plays.   During this time Nancy worked at a local restaurant.   Aft Mon, 16 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=near-the-end-of-the-road http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=near-the-end-of-the-road Often times when you start on a long journey, the end can seem somewhere way off in the distance.  It's a lot of work to get started and sometimes the journey actually begins before you are ready to leave. Back in February of this year, we started a journey called Cancer with mom.  It was a road I had heard of but never before traveled with anyone.  Now 7 months later I am a wise and weary road veteran.  This has been a trail of tears - of joyous memories and sunshine days Mon, 25 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=blogging-and-breathing http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=blogging-and-breathing Blogging is an interesting pursuit.  I've noticed some people use it as a way to communicate about their ministry.  Others write interesting insights they observe about life. Whenever I am lost in thought trying to figure out my life, I think, That would make a good blog.  Then I remind myself that my life may not be everyones business. But then I figure everyone is trying to figure out the same stuff.   I ask myself a lot of ques Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=my-life-and-my-mom http://scottborg.myadventures.org/?filename=my-life-and-my-mom Life can be difficult.  After 3 months in Africa I developed a kind of vision for myself and my life.  After reading a few inspiring missions biographies, I had a picture of myself pouring my life out in kind just like the people I read about.  Total sacrifice.  Risk and adventure.  A life worth writing a book about - something people might read some day and be inspired to do the same.  A life of passionate pursuit of a call from God. Then I came home.  Fri, 10 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT