We experienced a few setbacks in the health department with our team. I can put it this way – Immodium AD is the drug of choice right now. It pretty much hit everyone (except for about 6) yesterday in varying degrees. Three of our team members, Samantha, Lizzie and Bob stayed behind today to rest. Praise God everyone was alive and well (or better) at dinner tonight. Please pray, though, for the health of our team and that this is…
It’s Sunday and for us that meant an awesome opportunity to experience worship “outside our box.” This morning we went to the Buzbee’s church, Iglesia Christo Verbo. It is a modern church with full worship team, video screens and even A/C! What a treat. Of course, it is all in spanish, but that just made for part of the experience of joining in worship to the God of all nations, cultures and languages! Those of us that can read spanish…
We had another beautiful day here in Nicaragua. We divided our team by gender today to be able to get more hands working. The girls went with Melissa to the new Rescue House, which the Buzbees just purchased and are in the process of coverting it to a home that will be used for girls who need to flee the conditions of an abusive family or the dump in general. This, of course, will be overwhelming, but much needed for…
Our first day here in Nicaragua and we hit the ground… not rolling, but with sholves and pic axes! We loaded up early and headed out to work for our first day on the jobsite in the outskirts of La Trudeca (the city dump). On the way in, we did make a stop inside the dump to visit Collegia de Esperanza (School of Hope) that the Buzbees run inside the dump. It has about 350 students. The school could best…
We are sitting in the Jax airpot. 2:43 pm. We have a nice delay from 3:05 pm to a new departure of 3:50. The problem is we have to hit our connection in Miami in about 30 minutes! Please pray for us as we try to connect and skip dinner to run through the airport. Other bad news is some of our team members didn’t pay attention to my emails about packing toiletries. So some people might not have clean…
Camp is over. That is a hard thing for me to type. I guess I could be considered somewhat crazy for saying that I’m sad to be done spending a week with over 600 middle schoolers, but the sadness comes from knowing that I have to re-enter the “real” world. Camp is a world of it’s own. To be away from TV, iPods, movies and other worldly influences for a week is refreshing to my soul! The unity and love…
It’s pretty hard to believe that tomorrow will be our last day here at Kulaqua. I’m sure for some it will be a good thing to be back home… especially the ones who can’t find their towel, tootbrush or haven’t showered all week. Oh the joys of MS camp! Seriously, it will be hard for all of us to leave because God has done a special work in our hearts this week. We’ve been reminded of His incredible love for…