Author: Adventures

No goodbyes, only see you laters.

I wake up from my hour of sleep, its 4:47, the sky is still dark but the birds are chirping. I walk out to go get ready and pass one of the kitchen staff saying “Buenos.” Instantly my heart was filled with joy and sadness because I won’t here that after this morning. I am slapped in the face with the realization today is the day I leave for my journey home, I should be happy but I’m not. I’ve been here 3 months and I’ve become a part of this family here at CICRIN. I thought I was ready to go home until this last week approached and here I am wishing I...

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The Kitchen Table

My favorite event of the week happened this Saturday night. I just finished eating dinner when Hazel, an older girl at CICRN, asked if Hannah, a girl on my team, and I wanted to come into the kitchen with her and make something. Side note: One of the rules here is to not invade on the cooks’ space. The kitchen is usually off limits, but the cook had left for the night and I was thrilled with the opportunity to enter unmarked territory. Hannah is the translator of the group; so I could communicate through her to understand what I was suppose to be doing. However, about five minutes in...

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Making A House A Home

Dear Family and Friends,   As we near our last month here at CICRIN and have recently moved into the newly finished missionary house, we have prayerfully come to the decision of raising money to furnish the house.   We are extremely happy to be living in this new house; however, our living conditions are less than ideal. As fun as it is for all thirteen of us to sleep on the floors, have constant slumber parties with each other, the bugs and dirt; we would like to give future teams who stay here a safe and comfortable home away from home. In doing so we want to raise money for...

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Beans & Whistles (Gone With The Wind)

Beans and Whistles (Gone With The Wind) It’s a Tuesday and we have a team from Gordon College in Boston, Adios Ministries from Maine, and yours truly Passport Nicaragua. I’m back in my natural habitat the kitchen after getting a crash course in third world construction its safe to say the kitchen is my happy place. Jimmy (19) has been here since he was 4 months old and probably one of the most multifaceted individual’s I’ve ever met. Today I and Jimmy are going to filter Pinto beans. In Nicaragua with the average person living on less than two dollars a day rice and...

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To Be Present

T otal honesty is to admit our inability to be truthful with the face we see in the mirror O ne bad moment can destroy a lifetime of careful watching   B e urgent about things that matter and outcomes that will last E xtend grace not just to the gracious but to those who lack a grace   P assion is good but needs parameters to keep constructive R eputation from others out the window E veryday set your minds on things that are ABOVE not on things on Earth S erves the interest of others and does best today to honor you in WORD and ACTION E xistence of God is everything that is made N...

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Charades

Well we are here, and Nicaragua is a Spanish speaking country. “Hola” is about the extent of my Spanish so I tend to use the word over 100 times a day. My life has quickly become a never-ending game of charades, and this charades life is a challenging life. Thinking before you speak is a necessity here. How important is this five minute skit I am about to put on to ask where I should dump the trash? Ministry is definitely about seeing what needs to be done and doing it with as little words as possible.   One of my favorite memories from this week happened the second full...

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