Dance, dance, dance…
Last December, my beautiful friend Ashley (pictured left) and some of the lovely ladies from Living Water Church really had the desire and heart to introduce dance as an outlet for worship and as a ministry of the…
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Last December, my beautiful friend Ashley (pictured left) and some of the lovely ladies from Living Water Church really had the desire and heart to introduce dance as an outlet for worship and as a ministry of the…
Gangs have always been a problem in Central America. Anywhere that you find extreme poverty and a majority of children living in broken homes, the draw to gang life is strong. It becomes a place to belong and a…
I sat on a picnic table in the middle of the church with my beautiful friend, Paula. Tears filled her eyes, threatening to spill over at any moment. For reasons that she couldn’t explain she just began to open up…
Working with teenagers can be really difficult, mostly because my relationships with them are so inconsistent. They will love you one day and won’t speak to you the next. This is really difficult for me because my heart is so…
I apologize that there has been such a long break since my last blog. The main reason is that I just returned last week from a 2 1/2 week trip to the States to visit my family. Now…
I love taking the teenagers here to explore new parts of their own country. Like most low-income communities, the majority of people in Candelaria have very little experience outside their own village. Lindsay and I were able to take a…
Candelaria is my home. After almost 5 months of living in this village, the language barrier isn’t nearly as big of a deal and I am adjusting to the inevitable cultural differences of living in a foreign country. My…
Recently on my days off I tend to spend a lot of time at the beach just lying in the sun, listening to the crashing waves, and reading. This week I was reading When Helping Hurts by Steve Corbett…
We started the month celebrating Jovanny’s 17th birthday. It was exciting because we were able to throw Jovanny his first birthday party ever! Jovanny has been having a lot of difficulties in his family so it was really incredible to…