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Have you ever started out a day really terribly but then ended on the highest note possible? That was my day on February 11th. The past couple of days before this Saturday were kinda hard for me. For some reason I was believing the lies that satan was telling me. Lies like “you don’t deserve to be here”, “you’re hurting people’s feelings because of your personality”, and “you should just go home because you’re not good enough and people don’t like you”. The way satan attacks me is he likes to get in my head because he knows I never stop thinking. He tries to use my mind as his last resort to get to me. Satan also likes to make me turn on myself when he knows that i’m doing God’s work. That morning we were having girls time and something inside of me said to talk to my teammates about w…

Where has the time gone? It felt like just yesterday I was arriving at training camp, seeing all the new faces of my teammates. Now we are down to the final days, excited to go home, but also sad to leave our new life-long friends. Going from strangers to family members in 3 months is crazy! We have all gotten so close that I can’t imagine a day without them. For the past 3 months I have seen my teammates 24/7. We have gone through so much, but have come out even stronger than before! In just a few days we will be going back to our old lives and back to where we stopped everything else 12 weeks ago. It will be a hard time adjusting and some of us will struggle, but we have each other no matter what. While living in the jungle, we have been doing ministry in town a lot. I have bee…

  Sorry it has been so long since I have last wrote a blog! It has been nothing but crazy here, which is a good thing! On Tuesday the 15th was Independence Day here in Costa Rica! We began the day with ATLs (ask The Lord). After breakfast we began praying for what The Lord had to offer us on this blessed day. Everyone in the group got either some sort of message,word, or vision. I specifically got a vision of a man in a black shirt with white lines/words, sneakers, a hat, darker skinned, he has a scruffy face that made him sort of look homeless, a back pack on and he had a funny walk. As soon as we made it to downtown San Jose we began I pray and after that, I had a strong feeling to just walk straight towards all the people, so we did. After walking about five or six blocks we…

Coming up on a month together with these crazy people and through all the memories we have made I wanted to share one that stuck out to me. It’s about a house but the house has more meaning than just being a house, it’s a symbol and a lesson. The past days we’ve been working on a house as a team. A woman lives at the house who needs a kidney transplant, she didn’t know this until she found out she was pregnant. The doctors did an emergency c section which made the baby very sick. once the baby was able to come home physically, social services came to the house to make sure the condition of the house was suitable for the baby. It was not. Walls were coming down, nails were sticking out, wood was molding. So they wouldn’t let the baby come home and told her that if she didn’t have it fixe…

Worship! Have you ever worshipped? I mean really worshipped? Not just standing in church service singing along to what ever song is playing. But really letting yourself hear the words and letting them sink in. Every time we worship you can just feel God in the room with us. The worship here is so different from anything I’ve ever experienced! Here everyone really just gives it all to God. Some people sing there hearts out, others dance, some just get down on there knees and pray. What would it look like if we didn’t care about what people think of us, or how we looked, or how we sounded? What if we only cared about what God thinks? What if we gave it all to him every time we worship? I can granted it would change how we think about worship. And it would change the way we think about God…

Week #2  As the week began we were all excited but nervous at the same time. It was our first actual week in Costa Rica and God could have not done anything better! We helped in a bible store in downtown San Jose and then we also helped the gracious souls at WYAM. Even in the times that we didn’t see the point in in what we were doing or how it would help lead other in Christ, a girl in our group said, “Jesus would do this.” That was one of the strongest and most heartfelt sentences anyone could have ever said! Now every time I catch myself saying “this is pointless” or “why am I doing this?” I just think would Jesus do this? And that gives me motivation to keep doing the Lords work because it will be worth it in the end!  During one of the morning worship services we had a …

As the adventure begins and the missions start God has already made a plan for our team that is unraveling day by day. God has put an amazing group of people together that I get to call family and share the next 3 months with. Everyone of us have different stories, some I know and others I’m so eager to find out. First day in Costa Rica we jumped right into things by co partnering with a local church helping with homeless ministry. This was like nothing any of us had done before, this church brought over 800 local homeless people and gave them the opportunity to shower, get a hair cut, see a doctor and a dentist, eat and get saved by God. Our team split into groups helping in different areas, my group spent the morning greeting the homeless that we’re going to take showers, after Mary …

  August 30, 2015   The first week of training camp/ Costa Rica is over! What a week it has been! God has worked in so many mysterious ways and I am so blessed and humbled to even have a relationship with Him! The three days that we had at training camp were so good for restoring my relationship with God. He moved through me in ways I can’t even explain! When you pray to help one of your team mates and as you are about to speak and you can’t think of anything and all of a sudden you start saying stuff but by the end you cant remember what you said. You know that was God stepping in! Having The Lord speak to me through me was a time I will never forget. On Friday, August 28, we woke up at 3a.m. and packed up and headed to the airport for Costa Rica! We landed around one o’c…

The team has made it safely to Costa Rica! They just met their ministry host and loaded all their bags onto the trailer. The team is very excited to be there and expectant for what the Lord is about to do in and through them! Stay tuned for blog updates from the team! Blessings, The Passport Team 

     Here in Costa Rica, Saturdays are my favorite days. Not because it’s the weekend and not because we get to sleep in, but because we get the chance to pour out love to a community that craves compassion. Ten minutes down the road from the place we call home is a little neighborhood known as Cinco Esquinas. We grab some jump ropes, snacks, and a soccer ball or two and we’re off.      As we pass by their houses, boys and girls of all ages scurry out with excitement, careful not to knock over the cinder blocks that so delicately provide support for the tin roofs above their heads. A group of maybe fifteen or so kids usually meet us in the middle of the street, eager for the fun that awaits them. Although I don’t speak much Span…