This month in Costa Rica we will be working with 6:8 Ministries (68ministries.org). There are two teams here this month. Team Prisma and team Lovebound. The ministry has recently purchased a staff house and we are the first group to stay there. We are basically their guinea pigs as to what a group needs when they come here. They have asked us to let them know if there is something that we might want other than what is here. This is difficult because we are used to living “world race” style and this “house” that we are living in is very good. We have been really blessed this month.
Our ministry is also similar in that they have asked us to try several different things to see if this is what they want to do with a group in the future.
Some of the things we have done thus far are:
We walked to a village one day and were told that we were going to go and feed the children then play with them afterward. It is a village at the end of a dead end road on a riverbank where all of the houses look as though they are made of scrap metal and pieces of wood from the junk pile. As we are walking to the end of the road we are yelling at all the houses for the kids to come eat and to bring a plate cup and fork because the ministry that we are helping doesn’t have them. So we get where the food is going to be served and we are at the end of the dead end road. Others in the group start dishing out the food when I realize that we are in the house next to the local brothel and drug house. The pimp is sitting outside of the door on his stool looking our way. The feeling in this place was very dark and kinda scary. I felt uncomfortable being there. We prayed for the area and walked around doing prayer walks. I think some of the locals thought we were strange but thats ok. Anyway we got to play with all the children that day and make sure they were full and we plan on going back there.
We have also been working with Pastor Walter at a church in a different area. We have been doing construction with him. They use huge steel triangular shaped beams for the open air roofs in these buildings (because they don’t have A/C). Well they have had these beams for a while but have just been sitting outside in the weather…so they got rusted. We had to sand them all by hand and then paint them with outdoor rust resistant paint.
I am the cook for our entire group of 14 and so some of my time has been spent going to the market and buying groceries and making sure that all of the prep work for dinner is done. It has been something that I really enjoy. Sometimes it is stressful but it is a great reward when people enjoy what I cook.
I am still not completely there on funding so if you would like to help me reach the end please click support me on the right. Also some of my teammates are farther away than I am so please click on their pictures and support them.
Thank you for all of your support and prayers. I couldn’t be here with you all.
In Him,
Cody
