A Foot Away: This Is It

First of all i would like to introduce you to my incredible outreach team, from left Vivianna, Gabriela (leader) Ted, Ruben, Myself and HyunHwa. I will be doing life with these people for the next ten weeks in Costa Rica.

We left March thirty first, arrived on the first of April, to our new home of Costa Rica. Although I don't think it had really hit us that we were on outreach till we arrived a couple days later in a town called Golfito which was an eight hour bus ride from San Jose. Golfito became home for the next twelve days. I don't think we ever got use to the conditions there, waking up, sweating. Falling asleep, sweating. We were in temperatures of about ninety degrees and one hundred percent humidity. It was gross! Besides the heat, our time there was incredible. Our main ministry there was Bible distributions, so everyday going home to home handing out Bibles and praying for people. It was such a special moment seeing how the different culture responds to the gospel and receiving prayer. Everyday we saw salvations, in a total we would have seen about one hundred and forty salvations over the time we were there. One of the moment impacting times for me was having the opportunity to hold a elderly woman hands who had Parkinson's and pray for her as she was weeping. In the moment, the language barrier didn't become and issue.

Now we're in week three of outreach, back in San Jose we're we are rejoicing in the cooler temperatures!

Today we went to a special needs orphanage where i was an emotional wreck. I was able to hold a young boy in my arms who had been left on a doorstep with three days to live. He couldn't breath on his own and needed a brace on his back. That was nearly five months ago, he can now breath on his own and no longer needs to be wearing a brace. He was such a happy little man despite the condition he was in and the restrictions he still managed to crack a smile and a giggle.

In the afternoon we went into the city to evangelise, out team saw two salvations and two re commitments as well as some crazy encounters.