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An Attempt at Closure

July 16, 2010
Adventures
Nicaragua

As I sit here on a borrowed computer in a hotel in Atlanta, I find myself with too much to say, and yet nothing that seems to make sense as I start typing. Our team has shared everything from clothes and toothpaste to laughter and tears. We have bonded over new experiences in a foreign country, and have come back with a bigger picture of the amazing God we serve. I know by now the stories are starting to spill out to family and friends. The mixed reactions and emotions of coming home are catching up with me, and leaving the community of our small team is bittersweet....

Anaranjados Ojos

July 15, 2010
Adventures
Mexico

It was a hot Thursday night in Matamoros, Mexico. The sun was setting and the mosquitoes were swarming. The team was forming constellations with bites on their legs and arms. A family of spiders parade around the room mocking them. Shniece leaps out of her bed and hammers them with a pink flip-flop. The smell of melting skin from Jocelyn’s sunburn reeks throughout the room. Alex angrily wakes up to the sound of Sally chomping an apple. Alex ferociously reaches for her stash of sour patch kids, takes a dose, reinserts her pink earplugs and growls back to sleep. Again, Shniece hops out...

A Little Photo Goodness

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Bolivia

<~~ We went for a hike on our day off!!! Quite the adventure… <~~~ Josh had an unfortunate run-in with the cook. We’re learning to laugh while we wash dishes. 🙂 <~~ During Vacation Bible School, we put on various skits in order to communicate the message. We’ve been teaching on obedience, and in this picture you can see Jonah in the...

Gwapa Ka

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Philippines

The past couple of weeks have been nothing short of life changing. I have survived a 14 and ½ hour flight, slept in the Seoul, South Korea Airport, bought groceries at Fooda (and no, that’s not a spelling error =) ), had Filipino spaghetti at Jollibee (it’s not quite the same as back in the States), and taken countless jeepney rides (where you are shoved a little closer to the people around you than you may have wished.) And on a more serious note: I have witnessed material poverty like never before. It was a couple of days ago when I was surrounded by dirt, trash, and...

Update and Pictures :)

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Scotland

Hey all!! So sorry that it took so long to update you on our trip! We have been super busy from 7am-11pm every day this week, but we are loving EVERY minute of it! =) Thank you so much for all of your prayers. We got into Scotland on time without any trouble on Tuesday around 6pm-just in time for a delicious home cooked meal. We are staying in Paisley, just outside of Glasgow in a community house with 25 other Christian men and women (37 total!!). There are 3 families (with little ones too), YWAM interns, and DTS (discipleship training school) students all...

Helado Coco

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Mexico

We had a really restful weekend and got to enjoy the ocean a whole lot. We started ministry on Monday morning with a trip to the Colonia, Invasion. We got to meet a lot of the families in the colonia and pray for some of their needs. There was a family in the colonia who had lost their children’s birth certificates in the floods. The picture above is of us presenting replacement birth certificates for their kids. The dad was so proud! Tuesday, we got to return to the same colonia bringing with us several gallons of clean drinking water. We prayed over the water and...

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