Christ gives us all new life through His love for us,
I am currently at month 1 debrief in Jaco, Costa Rica reflecting on this month, and everything that I’ve experienced. The list of things that are new here seems never ending, and sometimes it’s overwhelming to reflect on all the change, but it’s all life giving. I’m enjoying my time here, and I am so thankful to every person who has supported me to be able to do this journey.
Here’s a rundown of our ministry schedule!
Monday
ATL – Ask The Lord: We will take some time, pray and ask the Lord what He wants to do that day, and then we hit the streets! Spreading out across different parts of Costa Rica to go and pray for the sick, feed the hungry, and share the Father’s love with anyone and everyone!
Activation – We will spend a few hours in teachings learning more about following Jesus, as well as reflecting on what God did while we were out praying for people.
Tuesday
Skate Ministry – Tuesdays are our dedicated days for skate ministry! Our team of men head out in the mornings to the local skate park in a small province called Tirrases to spend time with our skater friends! This is one of my favorite ministry opportunities for many reasons. It is one of the most organic ministries, and it is just plain fun! I used to skate back at home so it’s a great feeling to get back on the board and challenge myself again!
Wednesday
Project Zion – Project Zion is a discipleship ministry where we do house visits, paint light poles and other things to clean up the community and bring Jesus’ light to some communities that struggle in many ways. I recently had the pleasure of making a house visit where 2 women accepted Christ as their savior. I lead a woman through a prayer, and after we were able to pray for their children who were very sick. The next week I came back, one of the babies we prayed over was completely healed!
Thursday
Project Abraham – On Thursdays we spend half of our day working at Project Abraham. Project Abraham is a beautiful community that has spent years building homes for single mothers, building schools, daycare’s, hospitals, and more for the community. Our ministry changes week to week, but it consists primarily of manual labor. We have spent days sanding walls at new homes being built for single mothers, we have cut down overgrown fields in the bush, burned unused wood in giant bonfires, and more. This is one of our more challenging ministries due to the amount of work it takes physically.
After Project Abraham we spend the rest of our day at skate ministry, so we are at the skate park at least 2 times a week!
(Photo of our incredible mentor Kevin doing an ollie! And a pic of Tirrases.)
Friday
Project Abraham – Fridays are also spent all day at Project Abraham! A full day of sweating, heavy lifting, and hard work!
(Some of the facilities we work around at Project Abraham) One of the most beautiful places I’ve honestly ever seen in my life!
Saturday
Adventure day – Saturdays are our days to spend doing whatever adventure we want! One of our most fun adventure days has been going to the Manuel Antonio National Park! It is such a beautiful jungle, and beach as well! We saw many animals, and God’s beauty right before our eyes!
Sunday
Sabbath – Sunday is our sabbath, our day of rest. We don’t do much of anything on Sunday. And that’s the point. Our lives are so busy, so full of stuff, we are constantly doing and never really being. So Sundays are our day to rest in the Lord’s presence, reflect on the week, and rest up for the next week of adventure!
So that is what our lives typically have been looking like on the World Race. I love it. It is challenging me in more ways than I’ve ever been challenged, but I am fully committed to this thing, and I will see God change my life, my squad mate’s lives, and the lives of those here in Costa Rica, Cambodia, Swaziland, and wherever else I go in this world.
After this month of hard work, and insane life change, we have spent a few days at month 1 debrief to process everything that’s been going on. We are in a small beach town called Jaco.
Thank you to everyone who has supported me to be on this journey. I could never thank you all enough. God is working through all of us to bring light to Costa Rica, and I am humbled to be in the position I am.
Thanks to all the parents of my squad mate’s who read my blogs, your sons and daughters are now my brothers and sisters, and I love them all to death. They are all amazing.
I am still fundraising to continue on this incredible journey. And if you would like to partner with me on this adventure, donations, sharing my posts, and kind words are some of the few things I need to be able to do this. Please consider supporting me, and thank you all so much!
Here’s to month 2.
Love you all, Sincerely Justin.
