Author: Adventures

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...

  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...

     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...

Being in another country can be world shaking. You’re unsure of cultural practices, blown away by new sights, and at a literal loss for words when it comes to speaking to locals. Coming to Costa Rica was all of those things, but my world was not shaken. While I did not know the cultural practices, I was able to join in the same rituals with my church family here at ZOE International. Though the landscape was completely new, I was able to awe at God’s creation and easily find my way around the neighborhood despite these differences. Although I did not know the language, my...

The neighborhood we visit is called Cinco Esquinas. Yesterday we walked down there in order to pick up some kids to play soccer. As we were walking, it started to lightly sprinkle. Despite this fact, we kept on going, thinking that it would at least hold off for a little bit or turn out to be nothing. I went with three of my teammates, and I was the only one who knew enough Spanish to speak with the people, so I was tasked with being the translator. We approached the first house, and I told the mother that we were going to play soccer and that her kids could come with us. The boy and girl...