Filed under: Celebration Church, Religion, Youth Ministry | Tags: 6:8 ministries, costa rica, mission trip
Our team is doing such an incredible job. Be sure to check their blog for student updates! The picture above is from our team’s renovation of a small local park. Our team brought sidewalk chalk, jump ropes, soccer balls, stickers, and bubbles to play with the ninos. They literally would not let Taylor Brantley leave, as they clung to her feet. My wife Rachel and I had a good time playing on the see saw with Lindsey G. and these 3 local girls. As you can see, they still had trouble balancing me out!
I spoke at the youth service in Aurora at Mt. Sinai Church… it was a packed house and my first experience speaking with a translator. Carolina did a great job as my partner in preaching for the night. I spoke about how often, we have a see saw kind of life, trying to balance 2 separate lives, our church life and our outside church life, it’s so topsy turvy and is painful, and it never seems to give us ‘balance’. My point..the world is out of balance,,, there’s no real balance apart from living a genuine life as a follower of Christ in the world….then there aren’t 2 conflicting lives, but just one.
Later in Aurora, we did something similar, except the poverty was more extreme. Instead of a park, we setup in the middle of a street. It was not as sheltered, and many adults watched the interaction our students had with their children. the transformation 6:8 Ministries has been involved in these past 2 years has changed that neighborhood from a place of random street fires, gang violence, and no safety for children, to the place we found ourselves yesterday, with packs of children clinging to our team, our girls in particular, having the TIME OF THEIR LIVES! Thank you for your prayers as we continue. today we goto paint a local school. Tomorrow we hike to the top of a mountain nearby for an unbelievable time of groupbuilding and connection with Christ.
from the field-
big john
