Live in BOLDNESS. Seek the deep places. A Shift is coming.
November lazily faded into December as my squad and I took over the small city of Granada, Nicaragua for what the World Race likes to call Debrief. Sixty-two Racers, three squad leaders and two coaches fell upon the cute-tourist town for a week of cultivating deeper community, worshiping, resting and refilling. I can’t express how needed that time was. I left our ministry in Diriamba exhausted – physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Granada was the pause and reset my soul needed. The Lord poured out his presence and spirit in the forms of community and worship and left me revitalized for the next stage of this journey. As a team we were challenged to seek the deep places of intimacy and transparency. I can feel it – a shift is about to happen. These first three months were just gearing us up for something BIG. God is doing work. BIG work. I feel it like the anticipation of a wave swell moments before it crashes upon the sand.
My team and Greg’s team left Granada together to travel to Costa Rica for our month of ministry at a Children’s Rehab Center (for a ridiculously detailed account of our travel day, peruse my Costa Rica Bound blog). Upon arrival, we soon realized a few details had been “lost in translation� in the space between AIM’s ministry description sheet and the situation we found ourselves in. Instead of living and working at a Rehab center surrounded by kids, we were living on a farm in the middle of no-where-jungle land. For the past week, our 
mornings have been spent clearing acres of jungle-bush and channeling our inner “Xena Warrior Princessâ€� as we wield our 3 foot long machetes. Afternoons are full of planning for six Christmas Fiestas we are responsible for orchestrating: upwards of 1,500 kids in attendance, 2-5 hours long with games, songs, and skits included…all unloaded on us upon arrival 🙂 Its crazy awesome though – God is teaching us to love ministry wherever He has us, no matter what it looks like. Good thing the World Race prides itself on stripping its Racers of expectations – well done here!
mornings have been spent clearing acres of jungle-bush and channeling our inner “Xena Warrior Princessâ€� as we wield our 3 foot long machetes. Afternoons are full of planning for six Christmas Fiestas we are responsible for orchestrating: upwards of 1,500 kids in attendance, 2-5 hours long with games, songs, and skits included…all unloaded on us upon arrival 🙂 Its crazy awesome though – God is teaching us to love ministry wherever He has us, no matter what it looks like. Good thing the World Race prides itself on stripping its Racers of expectations – well done here! But in all honesty, I’m truly enjoying our ministry in Los Chiles. I’m learning the different facets of being God’s hands and feet…even when that looks like wrapping duct-tape around my blistered hands, grabbing a machete and laying wreckage into a field destined for sugarcane.
