Costa Rica team has arrived
The Costa Rica team has arrived in country and will be settling in this evening.
Author: Adventures
Guatemala 2 Week Has Arrived
The Guatemala 2 week trip has arrived. They have stopped for lunch and are making their way to San Pedro where they will spend their time in country.
Dear Guatemalan Sisters,
On our last day of ministry for the first week in Guatemala, my team headed out to an indigenous village three hours away. I was expecting a day full of children ministry, but received so much more. This is my open letter to my new Guatemalan sisters.
Dear Guatemalan Sisters,
Your hospitality has changed my life and my heart. The small village of beautiful selflessness that you live in is such an example of Jesus’s love. Though we are the same age, you have become my role models; because laughter is your medicine and you have true joy that only Jesus can provide....
Expectations
As we began serving in Ecuador, I came to several realizations.
Sometimes we create expectations and get upset when they are not met.
From experience with missions, I created an expectation of serving people directly. My favorite type of ministry is working with children and building relationships with people.
Our first day of ministry, we were told we were going to work in the hospital. After hearing this, I immediately expected we would work with patients. Instead, they told us we would be working in a room sorting health files. While we were organizing, I was a little upset. I did...
I Will Not Underestimate My Enemy Again
Spiritual warfare isn’t really something I had ever taken seriously. Yes, I believed that the devil is real and that he has demons and that they cause trouble for Christians, but I always underestimated my enemy.
The truth of his power finally became real to me in the months before this mission trip. I had a court case, an oral surgery, broken toe, an emotionally stressful situation, and arguments with some of my best friends, all two months before leaving for Nicaragua. So much piled up in such little time and I was left astounded.
How could so much go so wrong...
The Man in the Salmon Shirt
I honestly have no idea how to write this out on paper to convey the magnitude of this experience in my life. I’m going to start with this: as a team, we went to evangelize in the town square of Ponce, Puerto Rico. My group split off from the others and prayed at the beginning for anything the Holy Spirit wanted to show us. I saw green and purple and heard bells, similar to the ones on top of store doors that jingle when you walk in.
Through the prayer walk I was walking and feeling kind of discouraged because no one stood out to me and nothing really made me feel the overwhelming...
