Hi my name is Joshua! I wanted to write some blogs to describe a couple different ways God spoke to me on this trip. I hope you enjoy reading them, and I hope that you get something out of them like I did.   //   During my team’s trip to Puerto Rico one of the things we focused on was listening for God’s voice. This was one of the things I was most excited for on this trip, and I couldn’t wait to do it. One night we finally got around to doing it, and I was so excited but during the listening prayer I heard nothing. Absolutely nothing. I was so frustrated...

Talked with team this morning.  The team has been involved with Children’s ministry right from the start.  Today they are working with the local community doing a reforesting project.  Looks to be a busy day but one where they get to work side by side with the people that the project will be helping.    Everyone is doing well.  They did mention that it is the rainy season, so they have been experiencing some rain.    Hope Ethiopia shared as well that they will try to post some pictures on their website: http://hopethiopia.com/ ...

We had a fun day at the Care Point today weeding in the garden, followed by more time spent loving on the children and caregivers .

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...

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...

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...