Author: Adventures

"And I pray that, you being rooted and established in love may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge- that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."  Ephesians 3:17-19 Last weekend my team and I faithfully boarded a van to Guatemala City not knowing what was waiting for us there.  On our last day in the city we spent the entire morning in a garbage dump.  We separated into small groups and began to pray for everyone in sight....

Psalm 31:23-24 says, "Love the Lord, all his saints! The Lord preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full. Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord." For the past two weeks we have each been paired off with another teammate and a familoy from our host church.  Lacey and I have had the priveledge of being invited into Marvin's home. Marvin is the youth pastor at Mi Re-to.  He has a wife named Alejandra and a four year old son named Alejandro.  They are also expecting another son due in October.  All three (soon to be four) sleep...

8:00—wake up and chow time 8:30—meet at the front gate to find out the day’s assignments and pray as a team 9-2—WORK! Digging, shoveling, carrying, dumping, moving, and holding dirt and rocks. 2-3—chow time 3-7—feedback (group reflection on what went well/poorly throughout the day) nap, coffee, read, shower, have some great conversations about the Lord 7—chow time 8-?—more conversation with the great people on my team and then sleep and rest because work is starting again soon! Although each day holds the same hourly schedule more or less, you...

Within the past week God has revealed to me that I have been stuck in a prison of comparison.  In one instance, I had just finished praying for a numerous amount of people and was feeling so connected to God.  I have learned that the enemy strikes and feeds me lies when I am beginning to trust more and more in God.  As everyone else on the team started telling about their experiences, I immediately got down on myself with thoughts of not being adequate enough to be used by God.  As I snapped out of it I realized that God DID use me and teach me something, just in a...

After reading over my past few blogs, I realized that I need to lighten up my topics and have a little bit of fun!  So, I thought I’d fill you all in on one of my tribe’s longstanding jokes… the Guat-Squat.  What is the Guat-Squat you may ask?  Well, it’s that burning sensation when you just have to go!  It is often the result of one too many choco-bananas, a few too many french-fries from Pollo Express, or that yummy but oh-so-dangerous street ice cream.  I am fairly certain that each member of our tribe has gotten the Guat-Squat at least...