Category Archives: Mission Trips
Nicaragua
I’ve been back in the country for a week now, and am rested up, nearly caught up on everything, and finally ready to blog a little bit about the trip. It was really an incredible time. We had an amazing group of 16 adults and youth from Messiah’s House. Out of the 3 trips there I’ve taken, I […]
Jesus in the dirt.
I returned home from an incredible trip to Haiti late last night. I’m not really going to blog much about that trip here. You can read about our adventures at http://www.hatshaiti.org where I provided daily updates about all our fun. It was a really wonderful trip – Haiti is a beautiful broken country full of beautiful broken people. I’m […]
Painting Walls
Today is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. In honor of that, here’s something I wrote last summer from Managua, Nicaragua after spending a day at House of Hope, a ministry that rescues women and girls from the horrors of the sex trafficking industry in Nicaragua. June 14, 2011 – I thought of my daughters alot today […]
Nicaragua Day 4 and 5 – Finding Joy
So I can finally get around to posting some pictures and stuff. We had a great relaxing day today. It’s good to unwind after a wild, exhausting week of pouring ourselves into share God’s love with, and receiving God’s love in return from, some beautiful, amazing children and teachers. It was such a time of […]
Day 5
Once again, it’s a late night. We just got back in, and my computer is being used by others who need to skype their families. Trying to post this from my phone. Will do my best to share stuff tomorrow. Awesome day today. Ended it by meeting ye US Ambassador to Nicaragua, who is at […]
Nicaragua Day 4
No real post today. I’ll cover today and tomorrow tomorrow evening. Today looked alot like yesterday. We lost to the boys only 3-1 today though. We are quite proud of ourselves.
Nicaragua Day 3 – Oasis of Hope
Today was a good day. A great day. We spent it at Oasis de Esperanza – Oasis of Hope. It’s a school run by ,Wayne and Elaine’s ministry located near La Chureca. La Chureca is Managua’s dumpground. We visited the dumpground today. It’s the second time I’ve seen it. And I still can’t believe what […]
Nicaragua Day 2 – Painting Walls
I thought of my daughters alot today at the House of Hope. It’s a place of peace, comfort, rescue, and hope for countless young girls and women who were trapped and are in the midst of being free from the sex trade. I met a girl named Vanesa today. She says she is 10. She’s […]
Nicaragua Day 1
Theses diary posts are always tough, because it’s so hard to cover everything we do and see, and there are so many pictures I’d love to show. So I’m just going to pick and choose a few and tell a few stories from my perspective. We have an incredible team of 13, and they all saw […]
Haiti part 1
I returned yesterday evening from an amazing 5 days in Haiti. I wish I could have posted daily updates, but we had no internet access or much contact with the real world other than a few text messages. We spent our time helping Ray and Trisha Comfort move therir family of 13 children with HIV/AIDS from their small […]
