1. Childrens smiles when coloring (or just general) 2. Grown men singing for Jesus are giving up drugs and alcohol. 3. Sudden rain storms 4.Praying for sick people 5. Hearing God speak 6. Seeing that God really is everywhere 7.Fresh mangos 8.Pick up games of soccer 9.the heart of Fernado 10.bread   There is something so sweet about this place I can´t put it into words. Everyday I learn somethign new about how life should be and how far we are from it. (we as in people in as a whole) I am learning to enjoy the pressious moments of Gods sweet love and seeing what a difference...

1 Corinthians 12:12 – ¨For as the body is one and has many members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.¨ Our team, Fuego de Dios, has been for me a snapshot of the body of Christ.   There are the eyes, the visionaries. These are the teammates who see where our ministry is and where it could go. They look at children running around the barrios, and instead of dirty hair and shoeless feet they see future men and women of God who will lead their communities and their country.   There are the arms. These are the servants who carry children, hug...

What does genoristy look like? I think the answer to that question is different for everyone. I´m trying to figure out what it looks like for me. Here in Nicaragua and also what it will look like when I come home. We were reading 2 Corinthians 8:8-15 a few nights ago and it tells us that by the grace of God, He was rich but that for us, He became poor. So that perhaps through His poverty, we may become rich. It is only because of God´s grace that we have the life we have and the blessings He has bestowed upon us. It is important to give, but more important to have the desire to give. We...

God has been teaching me so much lately. One of the most important things Hes been teaching me is how to love the way He does. I´m no where close to where I need to be but as He keeps showing me how I keep falling more and more in love with these people. Theres this one family we visited in the beginning. They were kind of standoffish at first and it took the kids like 45 minutes to warm up to us. But the second time we went to visit them the children ran right up to us and we got to talk to the parents and just love on them. We plan to keep going back and building relationships with them...

   As I begin to meld with the people here in Jinotepe, I begin to notice that subtle beauties that some might not notice regularly begin to have increasing importance. Here you see things like groups of butterflies fluttering around trash in the street, gorgeous magenta plants growing from manure left by stray dogs and dying horses, and the beautiful life of a child in the same rags I saw them wearing last week. From all this, I realize that just like those butterflies, plants and children I have a duty to share a beauty with these people amidst...

Over the few days that we’ve been here, I’ve been able to make friends with some Nicaraguans that work at a nearby store in Jinotepe.  After just a handful of times of visiting them at their store, they then invited us to their “casita” (little house) for dinner last night.  Ashley and Shelby and I walked to their store last night and then proceded to walk to their home so we could eat and hang out with them for a little while.  Their home was probably the size of  an average kitchen.  The mom, Socurro, told us that even though her home is...