Author: Adventures

Team Muchacas de Especia (translated to “Spice Girls”) has been in Costa Rica for a little over a week now. Every single one of us has been floored by the fact that we’ve only known each other less than two weeks. We feel like a family who deeply enjoys belly-laughter and the company of every other girl on the team. We feel like we’ve been together for years and are having a hard time comprehending life before knowing each other.  For the last week, we’ve been living and working with Metro Ministries in San Jose. Our ministry hosts, Jose and Renatte, are...

Our little house in the jungle lies on a very large hill. To get to the kitchen and river, you have to go down our hill, up another hill, and then down that one. Also outside our house, there are cows, like a lot of cows. When we are going down to breakfast, or any other meal of the day, I always look at the ground to make sure I am not going to fall or step in a cow patty. I walk with my eyes fixated on the ground, making sure my next step is a good one. At the top of the second hill, there is one of the most beautiful views I’ve ever seen. I rarely see it though because I am...

By Kayleigh Goodsell – Guatemala 2 Week 2nd Launch God is so so good!!!!! If I didn’t know this before I sure know it now. We are now over halfway through the trip and it is SO hard just thinking about leaving this beautiful country and my amazing tribe (if you don’t know that’s what we’ve called our team from the beginning of the trip). Our trip has had so many amazing moments happy, sad, beautiful, moving and heartbreaking, it really feels like we’re a family! On July 4th we woke up and most of us forgot that it was independence day (being in a foreign...

I never would’ve thought a mosquito net could feel like home. Or maybe it’s not the little box my bright pink net makes around my bunk that makes it feel like home. It’s definitely not the cicadas and squawking things outside the window at night either. I’ve found that it’s the community that God has surrounded me in that makes living in the jungle of the Amazon River even seem like a plausible thing that is happening right now. God has already taught me so much more about community and community living. I no longer fear bucket showers or opening up to new...

Today while walking through the San Jorge community, a little girl came up and started walking next to me. When I reached for her hand, she gladly took it, and we continued to walk like that through the town. I do not know this girl’s name, and I doubt she knows mine. A few days ago, while in Iquitos, a stray dog started following us through the town. We hadn’t pet it, we simply just said “hola dog”. I thought it was really nice that this dog was following us. And it made me so happy to have the little girl grab my hand. Sometimes following things we don’t know...

As many of you already know, ministry is not always easy. Most the time is covered in tears, questions, and rocky paths. You’ll come out of some days ultimately defeated, feeling unfruitful, ready to throw in the towel and say, “They’re too far gone”. But how dare that be my reaction. I am called to serve in whatever ways take shape. Our Saviors closest, dearest friends were at one time horrible people. He died for the man on the cross next to him, for you, for me, and for the worst person we know.       Things take time and the idea that we...