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Missions on the Move

July 1, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

Hey all! Sorry for the long pause in blogging, but traveling certainly makes typing difficult. Long story short, we left the Island of Ometepe after 2 INCREDIBLE weeks of ministering and sharing God’s love. We had some difficulties with the church that we were partnering with. The pastor was teaching a gospel message that: we are saved by grace, but our Christian walk is characterized by works, and if we sin, we lose our salvation and need to be saved again (become a Christian again). The pastor and other church leaders kept stressing that we need to strive...

Crowded Buses.

July 1, 2012
Adventures
Reflections

Crowded Buses: So the other day, we started this thing as a team where one or two afternoons a week, we have a team of “open worship” where a teammate leads us in a different way of worship. Wednesday, Sister Sam was up and we did this thing called “Practicing Personal Parables.” Basically, she handed each of us a piece of paper with a scenario written on it that applies to life here-like mangos falling out of the tree or the multitude of gnats that showed up last week. We then had 30-ish minutes to come up with a way that we see God in that...

Nicaragua: Expeditions Style

June 30, 2012
Adventures
General Posts

I am clearly the worst blogger ever. A month in and I haven't written anything. My reasons are kind of good though. We have been traveling A LOT. We started our journey on Ometepe, moved to Granada, and then moved to Managua. We will be here in Managua for the rest of our journey and I'm really excited. This short little blog post is just about the peace and joy that I have felt on this trip in situations where I could have been freaking out. So here it goes! I felt at peace going to a random person's house and sharing God's love with them. I felt at peace in a prison...

Where in the World…

June 29, 2012
Adventures
Admissions

When I was younger, I was obsessed with the computer game Carmen San Diego. She traveled all over the world and no one could ever find her! (Until you beat the game and found all the gold treasure, but that is beside the point.) As our trip has progressed these last two weeks, I like to think I am channeling Carmen as I have been in three different cities in the last fourteen days. Thus, I am not in Ometepe anymore. Carmen San Diego’s slogan was, “Where in the world is Carmen San Diego?” Fittingly, I guess you could ask, “Where is the Nicaragua is Katy...

Twelve dollar jar of peanut butter? Check.

So far I've done many things that I'd never thought I'd do before. One of those is buy a twelve dollar jar of peanut butter. It was the best thing I've ever purchased, just saying. We're entering our fourth week being gone, and I can't believe time is moving as fast as it is. It's really weird to think that we have less than two weeks at the orphanage. One of the little girls is in the process of getting adopted, and so her future parents have been at the orphanage spending time with her. As excited as I am for her, it is so hard to watch the other children who...

I played chicken with the train.

Ok, so I didn't really play chicken with the train. It just so happens that those lyrics are randomly running through my head. Over the past week I have been trying so hard to write my next blog. But yet, at the end of each attempt, I am completely unsatified at my attempt to capture my feelings. So as I sit here in the awesome pizza cafe, I type unscripted with the promise that I will post whatever I type this time. We are coming up on the one month mark and I can tell. The first pangs of homesickness are hitting and the bugs are starting to get on my nerves. Any chance for something...

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