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Costa Rica Mission Trip – Day 1
Costa Rica - We Have Arrived Day 1: Nov. 3, 2018 The day started early for 15 missioners as we gathered before sunrise at the airport in Tampa to begin our journey to Pura Vida Missions in Ramon, Costa Rica. While our flights were on time, our passage through...
Adult Nicaragua Mission Trip Video
The gifts keep on coming …. Our resident video storyteller, Don, has created a slide show of our trip. I know you’ll want to be sharing this with your family and friends. Thanks so much Don. This is like “manna from heaven”. God’s Peace to you and yours…...
Homeward Bound
So our work here is done and we have headed to Managua to begin our journey home to our loved ones. We will spend one more evening enjoying, breaking bread, having devotions and recapping this week which has flown by way too fast. We have learned so much here, about...
Compassion and Dedication
Today started with the water filtration team accompanying Dr. Medina and our medical personnel on a house call – or perhaps a “community call” would be a better description. We ventured out to an area quite farther away where health problems are of great concern. ...
Building a Home and Relationships
It was such an honor to once again be able to walk with women through the streets of Rubén Darío today and be invited into their homes so we could share with them this gift of clean water. But I cannot help but feel a deep sense of humility that in every home into...
From Clinics to Chickens
Today’s forecast was for 100% chance of rain, but we awoke to sunny skies. But even with the forecast amended to indicate rain later in the day, we splintered again into various work groups – we had work to do – work that would be accomplished with or without a...
Clean Water – a Life Saving Gift
We splintered in many directions today, construction, medical, water filtration, kids’ education and pregnancy education and each has a story to tell. It would be impossible to share in words everything one experiences while serving here. To do so would take far too...
The Spirit is Alive and Well Here
As we leave our rooms this morning and the sound of the whirring fans which lulled us to sleep last night, we step outside and are assaulted by the sounds of God’s creation, as a myriad of crowing roosters, cooing doves, chirping birds and barking dogs greet the new...
El Ayudante, Nicaragua – We Have Arrived
While every mission trip is different from the ones before, some things are routine. So it was, per usual, that we gathered early at the airport to begin our week of serving. As in years past, there were alumni who would not be joining us there at the airport to...