(Originally posted 6/13/2022) "If my people, who are called by name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14   A battle that is manifested place to place, A refuge where we advocate face to face. A room of walls covered in writing and washed in prayer, Our...

(Originally posted 6/11/2022) It felt like I was in the DR for months!  After two weeks of working with Mission of Hope, I left with my co-lead, Josh, and our three alumni squad leaders to get all trained up as a leader!  We stayed in a cute and relaxed airbnb in Cabrera.  It seemed to be in an abandoned town as it was quiet and there were only a couple tiendas and a cute garden coffee shop;  the quaint town ended...

(Originally Posted 5/13/2022) I sat in a household, the size of my bedroom.  A mother, a father, four children, and a baby on the way.  Shy, but glowing and hopeful.  Because without hope, what are we?  Without hope we are the dead walking.   A family with no real home.  People who have fled from their country because of a lack of security.  They left for new opportunities, but ended up in a foreign country whe...

(Originally posted 5/5/2022) Ministry in Costa looked a little different each day. There were some days we worked around the base we lived on doing some manual labor with good ole machetes, other days we went into the city to hangout with and learn about locals and tourists. One of my favorite ministries we worked with was teen challenge! Every Tuesday night we would hangout with a phase 3 mens teen challenge hous...

(Originally posted 4/12/2022) Heading into month four strong, but the honeymoon phase of the race is starting to die down.  This journey is obviously a lot of change, and it continues to prove heavy spiritually, in ways I likely wouldn’t have imagined.  As I struggle with sleep, and learn to face attacks head on, I practice living out Ephesians 5:8.  “But everything exposed by the light becomes visible — and every...

(Originally posted 3/20/2022 I set out on a journey to fulfill an unsatisfied hunger, I didn't realize till I was awakened how long I'd been in a deep slumber. Searching in areas that changed the route of my pursuit, All contributed to the journey that's produced some sweet fruit. With patience and practice I learn to live by this Word, Not for religion, but for a man who loves me so much, He died o...

(Originally posted 3/4/2022) A place where the sun rises at six and sets at five, Where the people don't need wifi and air conditioning to thrive. A place astonishing in every direction you gaze, The time flew by, but here's a glimpse of my first two months on the race:   I first see vibrant shades of blues, browns and greens Almost as beautiful as all the shy smiles and humble hands that plant v...

(Originally posted 2/24/2022) Hello!  As you know, for the past 7 weeks I have been living in the middle of the jungle.  Since I’ve been bad about blogging what we are doing, here are some things this has consisted of: Clearing an area of the jungle (literally cutting trees down with machetes) to make a garden.  The ministry will use this to teach the community how to grow fruits and vegetables to eat or to ...

(Originally posted 2/4/2022) It’s all the little acts of kindness and sweet simple moments that I’ve started to recognize.  When joy fills my heart and I can’t stop smiling in worship. When He speaks to me through the stars and the mountains. When people I’ve only known for weeks choose to bundle me up in their arms and love me. When a Peruvian woman visits and sees me shivering and sick, so she wraps ...

(Originally posted 1/21/2022) Hello! We have made it to Honduras and are a week into living in the jungle! We are working with a ministry called Catracho Missions where we are partnering with a Honduran/Argentinian missions team. It has been so fun and challenging to live in a tent (rain has not yet gotten in woohoo!!). It has also been fun and challenging to communicate and build relationships with people, even ...