Adventures – Page 30

Being on the Backburner

I washed dishes last week for the 1st time at the orphanage with my teammate Heidi. She’s a champ. While she slaughtered legions of ants on the counter with a rock, I scrubbed countless plastic spoons and oily cooking dishes. As the teetering tower of platos sucios (dirty dishes) slowly diminished, our eyes widened at the sight of an enormous cucaracha (cockroach) scurrying across the kitchen floor. All this didn’t really phase me until I found the little maggot in the wooding chopping/slicing block as I was picking out pieces of soggy cucumber. ...

Dance dance

Hi all! Ok so the first month was insane, fun, hard, awesome, exciting and pretty much everything else. The first 12 days we worked with a church doing door to door, VBS with the kids, soccer with the kids, talking at the church and also sharing testimonies or stories at the church. At first door to door was the hardest for me in opening up but once I got over that fear, it really became exciting for me. I also shared my testimony at the church and felt God really leading me in that. All in all the first week was a huge step for me, it really helped get me to get out of my shell. I was able...

Ainâ€™t No Rock Gonna Stand in My Way

July 8, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

I now know what an ant feels like (Proverbs 6:6). For the past few days we have been serving at the finca (farm), which is an extension of the orphanage of Casa Betesda for the older pre-teen and high school girls. The guys loaded up a huge truck full of rocks, from a broken wall at the orphanage. When the enormous pile of rocks came thundering down on the driveway at the farm, I was more than a little overwhelmed. We procded to then haul by hand the rocks down a wooded path to a small cliff, where we then tossed them over the edge into the dry...

Spiritual Walk in Nica

July 6, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

When I went to Training Camp before this Nica mission, I had no idea what was to come, spiritually, mentally, physically, or environmentally. The first days at training camp in Tuccoa Falls seemed like eternity – tons of worship and activities to bring us closer to the Lord and to cast our burdens and worries to God. This time for me was… uncomfortable, to say the least. My mind flooded with recollections of sheer emptiness in my past. Seeing the happiness, joy, and love around me, merely disgusted me instead of uplifting me. My stomach felt stabbed every time I heard a...

Health & Hygiene, Whatâ€™s that?

One item to note: It’s hot in Nicaragua. Regardless of what you do, you will be sticky, sweaty, and stinky. On that thought, after any day on the field, you will be what? Sticky, Sweaty, and Stinky. Think about getting home around 10:30 after a long day of: jumping around with kids walking around on a sandy beach worshiping in an uncirculated church dancing during outreach, and sitting on a bus (or in my case, lying on the floor in the aisle) built for 40 with about 60 people. You get home, and you’re likely what? You got it –...

Our Only Hope

Being in Nicaragua has been incredible. The beautiful scenery, the welcoming people, traveling the country; all in all it has been an amazing experience. One of the main things God is showing me is how desperately this world needs the hope that Christ brings. Don’t get me wrong, I knew we were going to see some hard things. The extreme poverty, the living conditions, children without parents, parents who lost their children; I thought I was prepared for it. But it is one thing to know the statistics and see the pictures from afar, and a completely different thing to see it face to...

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