Who: Casey, Beth, Heather, Julie, and myself
What: A road trip through Central America with no plans and no agendas…just the expectation that God is about to rock us with His guidance and His extravagant will for this next month of our lives. A month set aside for the Lord to show off, basically. A waiting game where we will refuse to take a step until He tells us to, and where we are expecting to have divine appointments laid at our feet and open doors to meet and love on people.
Where: Basically any country in Central America is fair game! If we can hitchhike, take a bus, a chicken cart, a horse and buggy, a taxi, a bike, or a flatbed truck…we can go there! God holds the itinerary, and the five of us are on a need to know basis…and we really don´t need to know the destinations!
Why: Because if we don´t do this…if we don´t kick out our own crutches from underneath us and have to depend on God for everything, a part of us, the most important part of us, will die. Because if you don´t answer the call when it comes to you, who knows if it will come again? Because….why not?!?
When: It has already started! We leave in about an hour from Jinotepe for Managua, our first stop on the long and winding road that is this month of ATL (Ask The Lord). All we know is that we have to meet back up with the squad in Antigua, Guatemala on April 8th.
How: Only through complete surrender and willingness to rush to the end of ourselves and cliff jump into Him. Only by His grace.
God´s bragging rights: He has already started this trip off with a bang! We have a free ride in the back of a pick-up truck to Managua, our starting off point. The owners of the Christian hotel where we have been staying for the last few days of debrief offered to take the 5 of us free of charge to Managua, as they were already planning on going. Then last night, Team Awaken went out for a goodbye dinner (the 7 of us will be split up between 5 different teams this month). As we got up to go and pay, a Christian man who had been staying at the hotel as well came over to the table and announced that he was going to pay the tab for us, and that he appreciated young people like us giving up our lives for a year to follow God. Are you keeping score? A free ride and free lunch. We were only paid up through breakfast at the hotel, so I boxed up the rest of the pizza and now we have lunch for the road! Lastly, we have a place to stay in Managua, for as long as the Lord leads us to stay….it´s a 42 acre horse ranch! We got in touch with them through Scott and Carol Pitts, our prayer counselors, and they are a great Christian couple who are excited to have us. Looks like we´ll be sleeping either in the barn tonight or just right out in the open under the stars.
Let the God games begin!
