And the village stops again. Week after week the village of Bethel and the surrounding villages that we are working with stop whatever they are doing when they hear the news. Immediately they will start informing their neighbors, friends, family, and the outside villages. Within an hour people are arriving to comfort the families and friends. Another person has just died. The village is not chaotic because it has become a normal routine for the village to stop. They know what to do because the village stops usually once a week. Thousands of men have been infected with a kidney disease that...

Luke 17:26-30 {26} "Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. {27} People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all. {28} "It was the same in the days of Lot. People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building. {29} But the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all. {30} "It will be just like this on the day the Son of Man is revealed. Did you read that verse above? Read...

SPLAT. There's another one. As we begin a new season here in Nicaragua we have encountered gushing winds, ripe mangos (finally!), and…white bodied beetles? It makes trying to sit and blog very difficult as beetles are falling like rain around me.  But really, we are starting a new season here as we cross our halfway mark and begin the second half of our trip. After debrief I realized not only how much more I want to serve and grow here but how much God has done already through my team and I here. In these next couple of months I am excited to explore new ministry...

Today we were able to do something new, something different. We went to an orphanage about an hour or so away. We weren’t too sure what to expect when we got there, but when we did we were all amazed. We pulled up to this beautiful place with so much land. We drove down a gravel/dirt driveway for a while. We got to where the orphans lived and were greeted by huge smiles and sweet hugs. There were about thirteen girls that we met. The director of the orphanage took us on a tour of everything. There were two houses finished with kids living in them, and they were finishing up on a...

Unfortunately, sin has found a way to leak through the seams of our world and contaminate every part of it. As soon as we entered into the world, sin also entered us. However, nothing is as pure to me as a newborn taking it's first breath of life. Everything about that baby is so honest; he cries when he's hungry and sleeps when he's tired. We need to get back to the organic way of life and go back to being naked as we came. So many times Christians put on a fake smile and try to come up with a few convincing words of what God is doing in their lives at that...

This is a blog that I wrote close to a year ago. I share it with you today because I still believe that it holds so much truth that we can use today. Real quick, before I share it, please be praying for our team. We are about to travel Granada, Nicaragua for three days to debrief and after we are done there we are going to Costa Rica to get our passports renewed. Please let the Holy Spirit lead you into praying for us as we travel. Thanks! THE POWER OF WORDS! I know I have written something about the power of words before while I was in Kenya but I want to reemphasize this topic. Since...