Here I am! Contrary to popular belief, I have not been kidnapped by the Nicaraguan gangsters. As a matter of fact, we´ve actually been making pretty good friends with them. I guess the best way to explain why I haven´t been posting regularly like I should is because the last week or two has been surprisingly….dry. Don´t get me wrong, we´ve been doing a lot. We´ve been making daily trips into the neighborhoods and building relationships with those who live there. We´ve built up a childrens church at the place we are staying which gathers around 3 times a week and has around a hundred...

As you can probably tell from reading some of the other blogs added from our trip, life has been anything but ordinary lately. I guess when you seek extraordinary things with extraordinary people in foriegn lands under an extrodinary God, who should expect that you get ordinary.   I’ve started playing soccer with this Nicaraguan gang everyday at 3:30 in their barrio on an old basketball court. Its so much fun, but exhausting as they’re all amazing players… when their not taking a smoke break. They’re all pretty covered in tatoos and most of them have scars. I...

Some call her trouble. Some find her laugh intoxicating. Some wish that she would learn another word besides “No!” All of us however know who she is. The first time we all met her was the first time we had an event at the new center. She wore a red dress and would not stop laughing or smiling. Then she would smile at you and try to run away. She likes to hit us sometimes as powerful as her little five-year-old arms will let her. But then she will just laugh.   This pass week Hannah, Joshua, Holly and I got to meet Esther’s family. They live in the barrio that we have...

Out of all the kids that come in and out of the center, there are obviously a few that you´re going to get to know more than others. Two of my main men are 9 year old twins named Melvin and Elvin (I´m not going to lie, I hate their mother for doing that). These boys are identical, down to which teeth are missing, and people in their barrios can´t even tell them apart. A girl was going around saying everyone´s name and she called Melvin Elvin and he of course loudly corrected her. What a life to only be different by one letter.   These boys have been engaged in the center and love...

In the mornings before we start our day the men decided to have a time of prayer with eachother. Well today the Lord GRANTED my prayer. I prayed for a day of passion, see today a group of us had the chance to go to the rehab center in Masatepe to minister and hang out with the guys there. We have been going now for three weeks, and it’s always been good, but the time lacked fire, or passion, excitement… Well today that wasn’t the case! fire fell down on that place! The guys were excited to see us, we performed a drama for them, and afterwards I gave a message, and then...

It.s 10.00am. —  breakfast is over. i sit on the floor indian style with my bible and notebook in my lap, surrounded by six of my twenty member ¨family.¨ we are all community. and in community we have small groups –  which aids in digging in deeper, building relationships, and keeps close accountability.   we dissect 1 Corinthians 13 and the topic of love for a while (i.ll write more in that later.) before we break for the day, we pray for, and over each other. we pray for passion, for boldness, for chains to be broken, for god.s power to...