Hello From Your Puerto Rico Leaders!

Hello from beautiful, balmy Gainesville, Georgia! This is Chelsea writing on behalf of the Puerto Rico leadership team. We just wanted to say how excited we are to meet our Ambassadors this Friday! This week, we leaders are planning, learning, praying, and dreaming about our team’s arrival. We are so excited to meet each of you in person and spend the next couple weeks with you pursuing God together! If you are a parent of a Puerto Rico participant (or any participant, for that matter) and you are not yet connected to the parents’ Facebook page, head over and search for...

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The World Needs You (to be Real)

“You’re going to change the world one day, and I don’t think you know it yet.” It was one of our last nights in Puerto Rico, after our third visit to the emergency room, that those words etched themselves onto paper and landed in my hands. Being responsible for 18 teenage girls is no joke. The long and late hours sitting in a fluorescent-lit room filled with Spanish and coughing told me just as much. I had no idea what I’d signed up for, and I don’t think I would have wanted to know if God had allowed me a peephole into the future. As an anxiety-filled...

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Puerto Rico: Finding Unity

1 Corinthians says, “Love is patient, love is kind.” That verse is so easy to say but not quite as easy to live out. Especially when you put 18 teenage girls in a confined space and give them work projects in 100 degree Puerto Rican heat (at least it seems like 100 degree in the barrio where wind is not common). Training camp was all fun and games (quite literally) but the mission field turned out to be much more difficult–emotionally and physically.  Ephesians 5:11 says, “Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.” So...

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