Here I am in Costa Rica sitting in my bunk all comfy and clean with free wifi, not at all what I was expecting in my 1st month on the race. We live in a city called Alajuelita not far from San Jose', and we are helping a ministry called 6:8. So far we have been doing some random things to kind of just get a feel for what this ministry does and for what the culture and community are like.
Yesterday (Monday 14th) we went to an old coffee bean field in thats placed kind of in the centre of this city. The field stretches about 2 n half blocks, its still filled with coffee bean trees but it is anything but a coffee bean field. It is FILLED with trash from one end to the other, there are couches where homeless people sleep or where prostitutes come with costumers. About every foot or 2 feet you will see a bottle of litter fluid which is consumed by people who can't afford anything else or are just really desperate for anything to intake and many people die from using this. Our ministry was to clean up some of the area along the fence line, and to pray for the future of the field and for the present circumstances. Now you have to know that no matter how long or hard we would work to clean that up there is no way it would stay looking like that and there is no way it would even look that clean without taking a match to it. But the point of it wasn't really to clean up the trash it was more so to try and show love through caring for the land and for showing love to the people passing through/by. You can clean up all you want and never make a difference if you're just there to clean up the land, if you really want to make a difference you have to show love. There are people in there that are using and prostituting themselves for very little money and they need love and they need prayers. 6:8 ministries would love to be able to buy the land and do something with it but its a a very confusing process because no one person has real ownership of the land and also it would be quite expensive to buy and then even just doze and burn it down. But all things are possible with God and my pray for that is that God would turn that piece of land upside down and put in some Christian homeless shelters so that people could have a clean, safe and loving place to go. So if you're reading this blog I ask that you say a pray for this matter because any and all prays will be heard, and I do believe one day that trash field will be turned into a field of beauty.
