Back on US soil… I’ll admit it was refreshing but also a little bit of a weird feeling. Especially for me since I stretched across both teams and was in Nicaragua 18 days I guess. For the first time I won’t be eating gallopinto for at least one meal (I had an 18 day streak going). For those of you reading this that were on one of the teams… you’ll laugh to know that I had to remember to actually…
It is going to be difficult to summarize all the happenings from today. We started our morning by visiting the city dump – home to about 1200 residents (800 or so being children). The dump is a working dump and the residents that live their make their living sorting through the trash – looking for food, things to reuse or even sell. They make their homes out of whatever they can find to construct with. I am always overwhelmed with…
Today the campo team transformed into the construction team. We started early with our breakfast and team devotional time and then headed out to Los Cedros to work on the house that our construction team started. It was awesome to arrive to see everything completed… almost! The house had all the walls up, the roof on and just lacking a door, 3 windows and the concrete floor for the main house and the porch. We got right to work on…
This morning we had to load the bus and say goodbye to Campo Allegria. We were all feeling the exhaustion of running a camp and the emotions of having to say goodbye to the kids yesterday. So today became a day of rest for us. It was great to be able to sleep beyond 5 am without a Nicaraguan camper waking us up today! We loaded up the bus for our journey back. The bus ride back to Managua is…
Camp is finished. Those are hard words to type. Even though we are all pretty exhausted from days that started way to early, fun in the sun, swimming, serving meals, facilitating stations, carrying kids around, to just trying to love like Christ – it was very difficult to say goodbye to the kids today. We ran a normal day’s schedule except we introduced the “polar bear” swim to those brave enough (only the boys were) to go for a dip…
It’s hard to believe that camp is almost over for us and the children. God has really blessed our time here – not only in through the activities, lessons and fun, but in the relationships we’ve been able to build. We ran our last full day of camp today. Tomorrow the children will leave after lunch. We had a pretty routine morning with the stations, dance time and then swimming time in the lake. However our evening worship time was…
5:10 AM. Why is that significant? That would happen to be the time that the Nica boys at camp decided to wake up today. Apparently they get up when the sun does. Me, not so much. But anyhow, that is when our day started today… and from the looks of things, when it will start tomorrow. Today was our first full day at camp and I think it is safe to say that we are all exhausted. Everything went very…
Today was an early start for me and the construction team. We were up by 4am and I took a moment to pray with them before they headed off to the airport. From what I’ve heard, they’ve made it back safely and are probably suffering from a long day in airports and on airplanes. After seeing the construction team off, I boarded the bus to Los Cedros to pick up the children that were coming to camp. It was a…
It’s hard to believe but the time is nearing an end for the construction team and I think it has finally hit them (I’m staying for another 10 days with the camp team!) I can’t tell you how much fun it was to have both teams together last night. We had a great time sharing experiences and praying for each other. Today the construction team went back to Los Cedros one last time for the dedication of Maujore’s home. She…