Author: Adventures

So first of all to my mama, I am alive! I am flying out at seven in the morning 🙂 A blog will b put up to let yu kow that we got there safely, and later I can send you an e-mail…  Now that that is stated. I want to let you guys know what the Lord has been doing in my life in my time so far at AIM. So when we got here (ATL) the rain is magnetically attracted to my luggage?? it seems every time I get my luggage under the sky it rains… But I aint going to talk about rain. I am going to talk about an opportunity I had to talk with a homeless man named Otee, or overtime, or O...

My name is Katie and I’m absolutely thrilled to go on this trip.  I’ve never been out of the country, let alone on a mission trip.  It’s something I’ve always wanted to do and now that I’ve graduated college I am ready for adventure, purpose, and meaning more than ever.  I want to love people the way God loves people, even though that’s impossible because God is God and greater than anything in this world.  But I am desperate to share God’s word and help those who long for care and nurturing.  I’m introverted but I...

I’m sitting on the balcony of the Kaye’s house in Granada, Nicaragua. I’ve got the headphones on for a reason as I type this blog.  It’s been a week of celebrating the Virgin Mary here and tonight is the “Noche de Gritaria” – the Night of Shouting. Apparently they stay up all night here carousing on her behalf. There is an outdoor party of some scale going on a few houses away and some guy is yelling into the sound system. I think he’s yelling prayers to Mary.  Firecrackers and cherry bombs periodically split the night air. A...

Let me tell you about Giermo.  First, I love him.  He´s nine, and he´s a little bit in love with me.  I don’t mind.  His dad comes to Bible study at El Puente twice a week, so he´s around a good bit.  He cracks me up – he starts out sitting three chairs away from me and spends the next five to ten minutes moving closer and closer until he’s holding my hand and laying his head in my lap. Giermo lives in the barrio.  I don´t know the actual name of the street he lives on; the guys call it no-no street because going down it is not a good...

Twice a week we hang out with some local girls.  We help with homework, play games, and jump rope.  The home is a place where girls ages 6 to 15 live because their families aren’t fit to take care of them. They are not orphans but many come from physically abusive or drug addicted parents. We mainly hang out with four little girls that are 7 and 8. Oh and I forgot to mention, the home is run by nuns. Last Tuesday we were playing with the little girls when a nun asked Kayla to help her with something. She was traveling to Florida to give a presentation to raise money for the...