I made it to Nicaragua my home for the next two months, wooohooo. Right now we are staying at Casa Mateo, which is a hotel that houses many mission teams coming in to work around Jinotepe. . The ministry we are working with has just acquired an old chicken farm and offices that they are turning into a youth center for the surrounding barrios. In a few weeks we will move to the youth center to continue working on the facilities and we will visit the surrounding barrios to bring teens in to use the center. There is a lot of potential for the center to be a safe haven for teens and I am excited to have a huge group to help jump start this ministry.
I have the pleasure of leading with Blair NIghtingale again this trip. Our time in Kenya on our last Real Life trip was amazing and God did amazing things in and through us, I am excited to lead again with him. This time around in Nicaragua we have 22 college age participants from all over the United States. It is a bit of a shock to go from 12 to 22 participants. We are having to really pray into what we want to accomplish in these next two months. The blessing of having 22 is that there is a lot of energy and so many gifts to pull from to accomplish the tasks set before us. God is going to do great things through this crew!!!
Last week we had Real Life training camp for 130 participants going all over the world this summer. During training the teams were asked to paint a canvas representing what they want to see happen in their country during their trip. The Nicaragua canvas pictured below has to do with us as a team breathing the fire of God on the people of Nicaragua. Jessica had the vision of us all being small fires and as we grow all over the world that the fire of God will ignite into one large fire. It is a beautiful vision for our time here in NIcaragua and the fire of God is already falling on this team and I know the the Kingdom of God is going to expand on Earth through this team.
While I was in Georgia these past few weeks I continually felt God calling me to commit to more so I have committed to continue working with Adventures in Missions for the next year, which will be my fourth year. I do not know what that will look like but I know that I want to be a part of activating my generation to being Kingdom builders.
Throughout the last three years of working alongside Adventures in Missions I have seen so many people be rocked for the Gospel and for the Kingdom of God. I have seen so many participants on our trips be set free from so much junk of this world. I have seen people ignited with the Holy Spirit. I have seen people walking so heavily in the Spirit that God has used them to heal the sick and set the captives free. There is no where else that I want to serve and no other group, at this point, that I want to work with, so I have submitted myself to whatever God sees fit for me in the next year through AIM. In doing that I must submit myself financially again to the body of Christ. I am trusting that God is going to provide people to come alongside me monthly to support my mission of mobilizing my generation to build the Kingdom of God on Earth.
If you are interested in supporting me monthly or in a one time gift please donate online through www.patricedeaton.theworldrace.org or send a check with my name in the memo line to :
Adventures In Missions
P.O. Box 534470
Atlanta, GA 30353-4470
I am looking for 50 people to donate $30 a month for the next 12 months in order to reach my goal of $1500 a month in support. Please pray and see if this is something God wants you to be a part of. Thanks for all of your continual support.
