Yo. I am alive and after a year of anticipation, I am finally on the field!
Yup. Curridabat, Costa Rica is home for the next three months. I live in a cozy home with 52 brothers and sisters. Community living amirite!
An average day consists of waking up at 5:30AM to this view in my backyard:
then spending quiet time with the Lord for an hour, taking a cold shower, drinking coffee and eating breakfast with my squadmates, and we all depart to our ministries.
~Ministryyyy time babyYyy~
Each team is assigned to a different location in the area and my team’s is called Love at Work International Christian School and Life Center.
Our ministry consists of two parts: the school and the life center. In the school we clean and do whatever is needed (like maybe bagging gatorade for three hours) and teaching or playing with the students. The life center is in the slums and was created to bring education and love to children that can’t afford to attend the school. There we will be tutoring and feeding children, many of whom come from homes where prostitution and drug use are rampant.
The work is not always easy and can sometimes be pretty humbling. Especially when you only know muy poquinto Español.*
*Pro tip: “Chicas! Limpiar!!” means, “Y’all boutta get sweepin’.”
Our team gets home from ministry around 6:30PM, which is squad dinner time. We eat, talk, laugh, cleanup, do chores, maybe some acoustic worship, then get ready for bed.
Ministry days are pretty packed, but I have Sunday and Monday off to sabbath and run errands and adventure.
I am so grateful to be here serving, and the Lord is already teaching me so much through this transition– which I will talk about in later blog posts. Please don’t think all my posts are going to be this mundane (this type of blogging is not my jam). Just wanted to let friends and family know what’s UP.
A weekly prayer request for my spiritual warriors out there:
-Energy, spiritually and physically to do ministry well because our days are long
–Attentiveness to the Spirit so that my teammates and I can hear His voice
-That we can learn Spanish in a miraculously short amount of time
If you’re reading this, I love you. Catch ya next week.
-Avery
