Author: Adventures

Adopt a Team

We have teams in on Saturday for training camp and all of them launch out of the United States to their prospective country on Wednesday, January 19th. Over the next four months young adults will travel to five different countries to bring Kingdom and we are so excited to see what happens during the four and a half months they are out on the field. At Real Life, we are asking participants to try to blog every week. This can be about the difficulty of living on the field, community, ministry, the adventure, or anything related to their time on the field. Granted, internet time can be hard...

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Getting Closer

Imagine this: eight people camping out in the mountains in the middle of the ruins of an old fort cramming under a ten foot tarp trying futility to keep reasonably dry and warm while attempting to catch at least a couple of hours of sleep.  That is what this team was doing Friday evening in the middle of the Brazilian mountains.  We were going on a pilgrimage to seek out the Lords voice by getting away from noise and distraction, or at least that was the original plan.   It began by our leaders Ryan and Angie calling the team together and giving us a very short list of items...

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Thank You Patton

Here is a list of things you should never do if you ever find yourself in a foreign country working with a group of kids: -let any kind of candy be seen that you don’t want to share -start throwing balls at kids and let them throw ones at you if you don’t want to spend the next half hour as the object of a one sided doge ball game -let the girls start putting make up on guys…..I’ll let you imagine how that can end. -above all, don’t start tickling matches or piggy back rides, especially if you did not have enough sleep the night before…… I made that...

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Pictures! Woot!

This week I am just gonna post a bunch of pictures!  It has been so awesome to see all that God has done in the last 2 weeks, He has definitely given us plenty of opportunity to grow and be challenged in our faith!  (And also have a lot of fun!) Ryan and I teaching the kids “Oh Wonderful Love!” Our team performing the Good Samaritan skit!  (I got really beat up!) Brittany and I carrying around some of the crazy kids as they tried to beat each other up!  I was batman! Ryan and I outside the school!  (This picture is way too cool not to put on the...

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I have a small monkey in my stomach. (Eu tenho macachino en meu estomago)

           So this past week we had the incredible opportunity to work at a school in the slums called “Casa De Samuel”. We were only able to spend 5 days there, and even though it felt like weeks, I feel like I speak for all of us when I say,”It wasn’t nearly enough time”.  I know I’m going to remember the relationships I built there for the rest of my life. The volunteers at Casa De Samuel are such incredible people, and the love of Christ radiates throughout them. If I could spend the rest of my...

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Kids, kids, kids.

  There is something about a child that makes my heart skip a beat.  Their innocence is reflected in their wide eyes and as they reach for me I can’t imagine anything better than holding them in my arms.  It is the easist thing in the world for me to love with everything I have on kids, I think my heart was made for it. This week my team and I have had the opportunity to love on kids every single day.  From 7am to 5pm our time is completely consumed by them.  We have been living in a children’s school in the slums in Belo Horizonte and each day we teach...

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