This past month has been my first month on the World Race and I’m in Nicaragua. My whole squad (~45 ppl) are staying at REAP Granada which is a 70 acre farm which has an outdoor basketball court, a soccer field, and a baseball diamond.
This month we’ve been a part of various ministries, but they’re all focused on people in the local community and building relationships with people and families (check out my next blog about all the different ministries I’ve participated in).
Here is a day in the life at Reap Granada:
At 5am on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings our entire squad wakes up to pray for an hour as the sun rises over the farm. I’ve come to appreciate this time of quiet preparation for the day.
Here are a couple of beautiful sunrises over the farm during our 5am prayer time.
At 6am everyday we have a personal quiet time for an hour, focused on studying the Bible and connecting with God and the Holy Spirit.
At 7:30am we eat breakfast. Most of our meals are shopped for, cooked, served, and cleaned up by a few of the local ladies who work in the kitchen. We are so thankful for their hard work! All of our meals cost about $5 per person/day.
Around 9am we start our ministries for the day by splitting up into smaller groups and then heading to our different locations/assignments (check out my next blog about all the different ministries I’ve participated in). We serve from 9am to 12pm, then take a break for lunch, then go back to our ministries from 1pm to 4pm.
A few times per week around 4:30 in the afternoons, we have a book study or a topic discussion together. The book study is based on our reading of the book Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship by Jack and Trisha Frost. The topic discussions are based on a popular, controversial topic where we discuss our differing beliefs and why we believe those things.
We eat dinner at 5:30pm and in the evenings after dinner we do anything from team times, to worship with the squad, to testimony sharing.
Usually we are done with the day around 8pm, unless it’s a Friday when we participate in a basketball tournament against the locals. The locals are actually really good. We’ve maybe won one game?
On Saturdays we have free days to explore the country or to go into town for WiFi.
Sundays are our Sabbath days where we stay on the farm all day to rest in the Lord and recharge for the upcoming week. I’m so thankful to have a Sabbath planned into my weekly schedule otherwise I would easily be burnt out.
Also, this is what our laundry room at REAP Granada looks like.
