In Nicaragua my team and I stayed at a Young Life camp. The camp covers the costs of sending kids to camp by growing and selling coffee. My team helped for a week in the coffee fields with the farmers before we switched to helping the maintenance crew. While in the fields we planted baby coffee plants and weeded with machetes. (Machetes=Fun) At the end of the week we went and helped with a compost pile, which was definitely an experience I hope I only have once definitely not as fun as machetes. The next week when we began working with the maintenance crew on the first day Sarah and I tore apart a bunk bed and then put it back together and assembled several more. The rest of the next two weeks of work time was mixing concrete and making concrete posts for fencing. On the last few days of working I spent with Kaitlyn and Meg digging a five foot deep hole that is going to be used for a septic system of some sort. As we finished the month off the entire crew surprised us with a lunch party for us American style. We each got two California style cheeseburgers and french fries.
Over the course of the month it was difficult to see exactly how God was working through us. We weren’t preaching the Gospel to those who have never heard it before. We weren’t loving on children who have never been loved. We were digging, planting, mixing, painting, and loads of other physical tasks. I do know that God is using the camp to bring countless children his love every year. He used us to provide physical labor to the camp to get things done at the camp. So it was worth it. Plus I signed up for the Race to bring glory to God, sometimes that may look like evangelism or hugging children other times it looks like shoveling compost into a pile.
Also THANK YOU to the Methodist church in Henning for your donation, and thank you to the anonymous donor!
All my donors have blessed me and have gotten me to this point. I am so thankful for each and everyone of you.
