Author: Adventures

ABC’s of Honduras

A is for Ants… they’re everywhereB is for Bucket showers… if you showerC is for Cornflakes… every morningD is for Dreads… either by choice or from not showeringE is for Elf… first team movieF is for Fernando… who came the same night we got here and loves repeating everything you sayG is for Gracie’s Gringas… because that’s who we areH is for Hammocks… great for napping or vloggingI is for Intercession… because we love GodJ is for Jenga blocks… 4 blocks per kidK is for Kiddos… they’re crazy but we love...

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I’m not touching you-but maybe I should be?

When you’re a little kid in America, you try to “bother” your siblings by saying “I’m not touchingggg youuuu”…here in Honduras, I cannot imagine that ever being an activity.   I have never been one to have physical touch as a love language, but here, it’s almost impossible not to catch the “fever”.    When you’re outside or in your bed and you feel something touching you, it probably is. Common occurrences: a child, a teammate, or a human in general. Other possibilities could be an ant, a mosquito or a bug...

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When You Just Have to Laugh

Maybe one of the most important lessons I have learned on the field thus far is how to laugh, in just about every situation. Here are some examples…   When you have plain cornflakes for breakfast…every morning   When two of your teammates get diagnosed with Dengue fever and chikungunya at the same time     When there is a scruffy dog that roams the doctor’s office, including the exam rooms and the lab   When you have searched the country for peanut butter with no success     When it hasn’t rained in days and there is no water to...

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Desires Hidden in a Window

  Over the past week God revealed to me that He wants to cultivate me into a prayer warrior. He was calling me out to be more bold and confident in my prayer life. A prayer warrior? Really God? Me? In my head I began to list off all the reasons why this couldn’t be for me. I am practically TERRIFIED of public speaking and just speaking out in front of groups larger than three or four. I am also prone to a disease I like to call “word vomiting” (aka rambling like an idiot due to panicking). Also over the last few years I have been wrestling with hearing the voice of...

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The Strength of a 7 Year Old

“Mami mami!!” Screamed 7 year old Mercy after being taken into her room with her 2 year old little brother, Dariel. Their mentally ill mother was standing on the street outside the compound yelling for them. Mercy and Dariel were dropped off by the police on Gracie’s door step at 3am on Mother’s Day. Their mother frequently comes by the compound and yells for her kids but she is unable to take care of them. Every time this happens, we have to take Mercy and Dariel into their bedroom so that they cant hear. Seeing tears fall down Mercy’s face was...

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Beauty in the Storm

The day our team showed up to Gracie’s, so did two other girls. One was a thirty year old mom who was pregnant with her father’s baby, and the other was her ten year old daughter (also her father’s child.) As I started to talk to her I found out she didn’t want the baby and that she felt hopeless. She never smiled or engaged in conversation. About two weeks later, she woke up in the morning bleeding. They thought she was having a miscarriage. She was devastated because she realized she had actually grown to love her baby. We all laid hands on her and prayed for her...

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