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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...

Africa Days…

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Uganda

Hey, Everyone! The Uganda leader, Aaron, just spoke with Don Rock, our Director. Everyone is doing well! The team did ministry in local churches these past few days. The girls’ hearts are really being broken over the poverty they’ve seen. While in the internet cafe today writing a wonderfully long blog post, the power went out. Unfortunately, their post was lost and they were not able to retrieve it. The leaders will try again tomorrow to post something, however it might not be the same length and detail as the one today…because it was not saved. “Africa...

Zandra

July 14, 2010
Adventures
Philippines

A couple of days ago we went to Lorega. Lorega is a place where the homeless live among the dead in a cemetary. Part of me doesn’t even know where to start. They live among the dead. Their home is literally on top of and surrounded by tombs. And it’s not an old burying site either, we saw tombs marked 2004 and these people have been making their home there for well over twenty years. The first church service we went to we had the oppurtunity to teach the children Sunday School off to the side. I taught the songs, and then after the story was taught one of my other team...

Last Ministry Day

July 13, 2010
Adventures
Costa Rica

Hello Family, Friends, and Supporters First I want to apologize for the lack of pictures. Every time I update the blog, i am using Pastor Marcos’ computer. Between the Spanish language websites and the slower internet connection, it’s nearly impossible to upload photos. I set out to upload a few on this update, but after about 15 minutes of waiting for the first one and it failing… I decided to paint a word picture instead. Today is our last full ministry day at El Eden. The team is helping with a VBS program right now, and we’ll be a part of...

Lorega: The Definition of Wealth

July 13, 2010
Adventures
Philippines

It’s impossible to know the definition of poverty until you experience it firsthand. Surrounded by people who are thankful that they have a gravestone to sleep on instead of a mud puddle, I decided, as my teammate put it, that I needed to rethink the meaning of wealth. Lorega is basically a group of shacks built in a cemetary. It is inhabited by people who have lived there for their entire lives and don’t know what it means to consume 2,000 calories in 24 hours or to have a clean pair of underwear every day. Since it’s illegal to live in a graveyard in...

Faith

July 13, 2010
Adventures
DR

I noticed something about my short-term trip. Basically, we planted seeds, loved kids, ran pieces of the church service, but didn’t reap the harvest or see the fruit. I wish that I could tell you that I saw people healed or come to Christ, that I saw demons cast out or bodies raised from the dead. The truth is: I didn’t see any of that, but I still saw God. He didn’t show up in the ways I expected, but I knew He was there with us. I would pray in the mornings, “God, show me something big today. Use me to heal people. Let me see people come to...

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