Hey friends in the western world…
I am now back in Herrnhut, Germany. Been adjusting and relaxing for the past week since I’ve been living in Kenya/Ethiopia for the past 3 months.
So good to be home, see my brothers and sisters, share photos and stories and to simply have free internet, hot showers and comfortable beds.
Ethiopia was quite the trip of my life, heart and soul.
It was intense, challenging, stressful, inspiring, miserable, eye and heart opening, faith stretching, beautiful and captivating.
If it weren’t all these things, then it wouldn’t have been a good outreach, a good journey. Without it being challenging, it would’ve been just another vacation that was pointless. I was glad I was pushed to my limits and extremes. I was pushed emotionally, trying to handle the lives of others in my human hands. I was pushed with my faith, truly believing if I serve a God that really exists and loves me. I was pushed til I was almost dead. But yet, God still proved to be there, even if He was silent. He still proved His love for me, but more importantly, His love for these people who are dying in the streets. It was, and is, so beautiful.
Now, I am back, processing what just happened with my life. What just happened with the lives God used me to literally save from death. I will be heading to London in the next few weeks to talk about my future as a full time missionary and photographer/artist. I am so excited to figure out my future, or to simply just get a glimpse of it. I don’t expect to have my future figured out in a few weeks, fyi. Just to see what doors I can walk into, what challenges I can take and what I can do for God.
I live in Herrnhut, Germany now. It’s my new home. Come visit me and live for free at a castle with me. seriously.
The team I was a part of in Ethiopia/Kenya worked on a book at the same time we were doing missions work. We are making a book about our experiences, the people we met, the children that we saved, the photos that we have and the hearts that were changed. It will come out this year, we will be doing tours across Europe and America to show the world the lives that impacted us and that we helped change. I will also be creating my own personal, fun, inspiring book for my friends, family and supporters.
Guys, girls, friends and family. I love you.
I’m sorry I’ve been gone for so long, but it was a thing that needed to happen to me, and for the lives of others that I met in Ethiopia and Kenya.
I hope you will still travel, pray, think, support and fight with me while I’ll continually live a life of a chaotic Missionary/Photographer who is fighting to end extreme poverty in third world nations.
This is just an introduction to what is to come, and the stories that I will share with you all.
Love you.
- Taylor Pool
