lower still God, lower still.

So a couple of my friends and I went to Currie park today to feed and spend some time with the homeless. A couple weeks ago God put the homeless on my heart when I met a man named Joey walking home one night. He was sleeping on the steps of a church down the street from my apartment. A couple of my friends and I prayed for him and I was up all night just feeling how lonely he was. More than anything I just wanted to sit up and talk to him and maybe sleep out on the steps out there, but Im a female and it looks wrong, so there I was up all night praying for this man in the confines of my apartment.

Then last week while I was at the beach God gave me an idea to buy a couple tubs and fill them with water and wash clothes for the homeless. So today we brought the tubs, along with some soap, shampoo, razors, and laundry detergent. We bought 2 chickens, some bananas, grapes, and water and went. We were still and listened to what they had to say. A couple of my friends played cards. Some just sat and talked.

I spent time with a woman named Kendra. She is in an abusive relationship and was released this morning from the hospital. I asked her if she needed anything washed and I washed her dress el salvadorean style :) she looked over the items that we brought and said she hadn't shaved her legs in a while. So there we were on our knees helping in anyway that we could. She said she felt like a queen! I washed her feet and painted her toe and fingernails. She was so happy! She kept saying how beautiful she felt. She strutted around showing off her look.

Looking up and watching her show off made me cry out to God for him to use me more and bring me lower than I've ever been before. I am no better than the homeless and just to see how one action could change someones mindset leaves me overwhelmed every time.

My friends are incredible and have such a heart to share God's love! Mike ended up giving the shirt off his back to a man. Robbie was sharing the gospel to any person that would listen while Steve was praying for anyone that was receptive. Kenzie and Lauren loved loved loved and listened to what each person had to say. We each have different stories but I hope this entry gives a little insight into what I experienced today.

God's moving. Please keep us in prayer :)

"if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. " -Isaiah 58:10-11

West Palm Beach

So I know this blog is kind of a summer thing but lately God has been doing so much that I have to document it. It also made me think, why should this site only be used in the summer? God is moving everyday in every place that I go so why am I limiting him to third world countries? Well you can expect many stories "Jesus stories" to come :) I am in school and I need to keep up with my home work but when I have a chance to update the blog I shall!

Home

So I'm sitting in the airport in San Salvador my flight leaves in about an hour. I'm sorry for not blogging for the past week we thought my iPod was stolen off the bus, about an hour before I left the camp someone said they found it. Yay! 

Ahhh this week was so incredible! I was able to work with my home church and a team from Ohio. God was working and still is! Even in the subway here God put someone in my path and I prayed for him in the center of subway. Good times! 

I can't wait to see everyone from home! I miss you all so much! I'm not going to lie more than anything I would stay here for a while longer with out a thought but I know God has big plans to accomplish once I get home. So I'm prepared for change and pray that God never let's me get comfortable with where I am in life. 

Thank you so much for all your prayers and support I really really appreciate your love. I can't wait to tell you about some future plans :)

Miracle.

Today was our last day of ministry in el Salvador. We did a couple street programs and worked in nuevo esperanza a place that I worked in last year. The area is a rough area with many of the children having aids and abusive parents. 

After our one program one of the national team members was extremely sick. He couldn't stand up he had a stomach ache and fever. We asked him if he could get up and go to the bus and he didn't think he could. We propped him up and started praying for him. 

We prayed and as we were praying he was sweating and looked like he was going to pass out. We finished and asked him if he felt any better, he said no. The national team leader said if you don't have the faith that he is going to be healed step out of the circle and stop praying. 

So we prayed a second time. When we finished we asked him how he felt. He said I'm good (estoy bien) and our translator asked if he was serious and he said yes! So much so that he said he wanted to jump so he started jumping. 100% better! Praise God for all his wonders :) 

The sole purpose

So I made it back to el Salvador safely! After 21 hours of traveling I am with my home church. We did some street ministry today at a couple schools and a town I worked in for the past 3 years it's awesome to see the kids grow up over the years. 

The last school we were in brought me back to the sole purpose of why I'm here. The kids were so loving! I had two little girls on each side hugging me with a little boy on my lap also hugging me during one of the dramas the one said she needed prayer for her sick grandmother and the other said she needed prayer for her sick sister and then the boy looked up at me and told me his dad is an alcoholic and his home life is "malo" which means bad. He didn't want to let go of me. Usually when a child reacts that way it's because they are abused. I'm finally understanding the language which is the hardest part not because I'm confused but it's hard to look into the eyes of a child who is telling a perfect stranger how broken his home life is. 

Ahhh words can't describe my emotions. Please keep me in prayer!  

Nicaragua

Right now we're on a bus bound for Nicaragua my team will be working there for a week. Neil and I leave on Tuesday to go back to el Salvador to work with my home church. I'm so excited to see familiar faces! 

Honduras has definitely impacted my life! My goal is to raise $1000 by December to feed 500 people for Christmas. In the summer we plan to work in 30 communities in 20 days to distribute food clothes and other goods. I worked in many of the communities this past week and I look forward to coming back next year.

 

Last day in Honduras

This week in Honduras was awesome. We reached around 2000 youth. We went into elementary schools, high schools, and colleges to do our programs    
We prayed and loved on the people here. I really really like Honduras it's definitely somewhere I want to work in the future. I hope to come back next summer with a team for 20 days to meet the needs of the people here.

Today was cool because we had a little kids church service and then later a youth service. Many of the kids that came were from the streets and schools we worked in this week.

Tomorrow is our last full day here and we'll be going to the beach. Monday morning we leave bright and early for Nicaragua. Keep us in prayer! 

On the coast of somewhere beautiful

 

Today was our last full day in Honduras. We did 2 programs in the morning one street and the other was for an African tribe on the beach. It was incredible. 

After ministry we spent the other half of the day at the beach. The water was warmer than the last beach we were at in el Salvador if that's possible. We took a walk and it looked like we were on a deserted island. So beautiful! We had lunch there too. I had the chicken others had fish and soup words can't describe how good it was.

Tomorrow is a travel day yet again. We leave at 3am to go to Nicaragua. Keep us in prayer :) 

To say the least we survived.

 Today was awesome! We did a couple programs in the morning one was a high school and I got to give my testimony to a bunch of teens. Many wanted salvation which is a big deal because at that age they are very stand offish. We prayed and loved on them. 

After lunch today we went to the river here in town. It was sooo much fun! We climbed the big rocks and were able to jump off. I did a couple flips and called it a day haha. Then I explored the river. We walked up the rapids on the sides and I found the biggest rock to climb I had to jump onto it from another rock and once I made it to the top I realized I had no idea how to get back down. It was great. Oh and I convinced 2 others to follow me. So I slid off into the rapids. We grabbed onto rocks and anything we could to catch our footing. No worries mom there was no waterfalls near us just rocks :) To say the least we survived.

My leader Kristal had something in her eye from the river and she couldn't open her eye when we were there. I took a look at it and didn't see anything in it but I told her to wash it out with some water. No success. So when we got back to the house she asked me to look at it again. She could open it but she was still in alot of pain. So I tried putting eye drops in. 
Somebody called her while we were doing this so she was talking and she still wanted me to put more drops in. 

I felt like I should pray for her because she was in so much pain. But I felt wierd because she was on the phone so I prayed in a low voice. Ashlyn another girl in my room started praying quietly too. After we finished praying Kristal interupted her phone call to say in English that her eye was better and what ever was irritating it came out. It was awesome to see God do something immediately! I was reminded of the verse: 
"for where two or more are gathered in my name I will be among them." Mathew 18:20

Overall today was an awesome day I can't wait for tomorrow! 

Meet the Need

So today was awesome. We did 4 programs in all the first 3 were at schools and the last one was in the street. At the last program a woman came up for prayer and started crying as she held her 6 month old baby. She was 2 months behind on rent because the father left her with the baby and she also had 2 other kids. She said they were going to take her house if she didn't come up with the money. It's $50 a month for rent. She owed a hundred. 

Once we were on the bus we took up an offering and collected $205. She was crying as we handed it to her and she couldn't believe we wanted to help. Today we met a need not to make the woman feel obligated to come to church but to share Gods love. 

God has put so many ideas in my heart to meet the needs of the people here. If you are aware of my wanting to start a company before I left to contribute to the poor well there's so much more to just an idea now. I have been talking to the missionaries here and it's something that is going to and must happen. 

The kids here are so awesome! There is a slight difference between honduras and el salvador but the needs are the same. Keep praying please!

Honduras

We made it across the border! It took a while but we're finally in Honduras. We left at 3am this morning and our leaders think we might get there around 8pm tonight so pretty much I'll be on this bus all day today. Honduras is extremely beautiful! There are mountains everywhere with valleys and rivers. We're headed to the coast so we'll get to see the ocean too! 

I'm still sick but I think I'm getting better. It's the worst when toilet paper and tissues aren't readily available but Tyler I used your technique and sacrificed a shirt as a tissue. 

Tomorrow we start ministry! I can't wait. Please keep me in your prayers :)

Beach day

Today was our free day and we went to the beach! It was awesome :) I got some color and chilled in a hammock. We had sea bass for lunch which surprisingly had a bunch of meat on it compared to the other fish we have been eating. It was gorgeous there black sand beaches and the water was like bath water. I'm decently sick right now I think it's a sinus infection so keep me in prayer! We leave for Honduras tomorrow morning at 3 am. 

There's always a reason

Today was our last day of street ministry in the area we have been staying in. Tomorrow we move to a new city and will do programs during the day. 

At our first program this morning we were at a school. During the program I kept making eye contact with this one kid on a bike. He was older than the other kids and I felt that I should pray for him. But i'm a female and can't just walk up to an older guy so I asked Neil to talk to him. 

He started talking to him and I came up in the middle. I told him there was a reason why he was there to see the program and I wanted to pray for him. Neil translated and said that the guy said he wanted to get back to church. I believe Gods working in his life and this will be one day he won't forget.

Our last program was awesome.  There were a bunch of kids and adults and God was really ministering to people. Neil and I prayed for a woman with a few kids that was watching the program. When we finished she told us she believes God led her to watch our program because she was just walking the streets and ended up there. 

It was a great day! I can't wait to tell you more :)

The house with the red door

During our 3rd program today that was in a field I felt that I needed to pray for a sick woman in one of the houses surrouding the field specifically the house with the red door. We don't typically do that because we pray for the kids that come out to the program we don't go searching for people in their houses its not as safe because we dont know whats going on behind closed doors especially in the areas we're working in but I knew if I didn't say anything I would regret it when I sat back down on the bus to leave. 

So I asked a national if we could pray for someone in the house with the red door and he said yes. We asked Neil, a guy on our team who actually goes to my home church to come with us too so it wasn't just 2 people knocking on a random door. 

I thought we should knock on the door and ask to pray for the sick if there were any. So we knocked, somebody said something in Spanish which I think meant something about going to the next house and the red door opened and a man stood in his underwear. By this time we were already moving on to the next house and he closed the door. No one was at the second house. I felt awkward. We were about to give up when the pastor came up and asked what we were doing and the national told him the situation. 

The pastor then knocked on the red door and told the man inside that This American girl felt like she needed to pray for a sick woman that was in his house. Pretty much if this feeling to pray wasn't from God I'd look like a fool! But it turns out that there was a woman that was physically sick in his house she was older and couldn't walk. The family has to carry her everywhere and to think about that on a basic level their bathrooms are outside not in the other room it's extremely difficult to have a crippled person in these living conditions. 

So we prayed. The woman was so touched. Her look of sickness that we saw when she was first presented to us as her family carried her in on a plastic chair was gone. She was happy as could be smiling ear to ear saying "I feel better" "I know God is going to heal me now." 

It turns out that she could hear our program outside and wanted to come out but couldn't because of her physical illness but she prayed that "God would send one of his children to come pray for her." God is faithful and answers prayers because I felt him drawing me towards her house to pray for her. She now knows that God sent someone just for her because he loves her that much. 

I know that many times when we pray we don't see an immediate result and many times I may never understand why but could you imagine the woman's expression when we knocked on the door just to pray for her after she asked God to send somebody when we had no knowledge of a sick woman living there?! Ahhh God is so incredible! 

Just felt like telling you all one of the many awesome things that God has done thus far :) I can't wait for tomorrow! 

Real fireworks

So we made it to the area we're working in this week. It's beautiful! It took us a couple hours after San Salvador and I believe we're right near the water because we walked to the water last night and lit off fireworks for the 4th. These fireworks were legit bomb fireworks. It was so sweet! 

We're staying at a church now and we're sleeping in their balcony. It's much nicer than the other church we stayed at considering that we have a shower with a door even though it's half bucket shower and one out of three toilets flush. I finally got to do some laundry in the sink too! The pastor and his family are very nice and we had a great dinner last night of papusas. 

Today we start ministry as we will be doing all this week. Please keep me in prayer!  

Travel day

I'm on a bus right now going 5 hours away from where we were just staying So I really don't know where we are or where we're going but we'll be there for a week. It's in el Salvador. 

I believe we're stopping in San Salvador for lunch and hopefully I'll find some wifi to post. 

Looking back, this past week has been incredible. There were so many kids we were able to reach from the schools to the top of the mountain, on foot and by bus. Our bus broke down once because it got stuck on the road literally stuck on it the back end. There were so many people in the community that came out to help us. I don't think I've ever experienced such hospitality that could compare to this week. 

The food was awesome. The women cooked over a stove that was outside.  Just fire wood and a pot. They hand washed our dirty clothes and the neighbors let us use their showers. 

The church services at night are probably my favorite services in the world. I don't know everything that is being said but man when you're worshiping God with a desperate people there's no way to match it. 

I hope y'all have an awesome 4th of July! I can't wait to tell you about the adventures to come. Please keep me in prayer :) 

Jauay

We had a free day in Jauay today. It was awesome! We got to explore the town and barter at the markets. I found a bunch of original items and I got a pretty sweet hair wrap like last year. I got to hold a massive snake. Got some pictures just for you mom! We had an awesome authentic lunch and I've had ice cream 3 times in the last 24 hours it's a good day!

We also went to a waterfall and got to swim under the falls. It was breath taking. Now we're on the bus ride back to the church we've been staying at sadly it's our last night.  

Apparently we leave for Honduras next Monday. I'm not sure where we go to next but we leave tomorrow. Keep me in prayer!

Becca's Miracle

Today is our last day in where ever we are. It's a free day and we're going to the markets and to a waterfall. No worries mom no cliff diving today. 

Yesterday was our last church service in this area and our team did a couple dramas and dances. Before the service my friend Becca had chills and her forehead was burning up. Our thermometer wasn't working so we asked for a cloth to wet and place on her forehead to break the fever. She was sore too and it was probably one of the worst places to be when you have a fever it's loud and everything is in Spanish and we have been sleeping on the floors there so she didn't have a bed to relax in. We had her lay on a mat off to the side while the service was going on. Not to mention it was pouring rain. So the woman gave us her little girls shirt to use to break the fever. I prayed during the service for her and a couple members from the team prayed for her. 

I kept thinking of the passage:

"And when Jesus entered Peter's house he saw his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. He touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him." 
-Mathew 8:14-15

We didn't have to give her any medicine because after the service she had no fever and the soreness was completely gone. Usually a fever spikes at night but she had no fever and today you wouldn't be able to tell that yesterday she was curled up on a mat on the floor sore and with a fever. 

Sickness is not from God, He is a God of healing and love. Praise Him for all his wonders!

How beautiful are the feet

Today we hiked up a mountain to do missionary hands. It might have been the prettiest place I have ever been. The first house that we went to was made of bamboo sticks with a tin roof and dirt floor ahh if you could only see some of these houses it's incredible to see how the people live! As we were talking I realized both of my feet were being bitten by red ants... Go figure. 

It was a great day! We ended up doing two programs at a school that we went to two days ago. They wanted us to come back today because the kids were touched. We did skits and songs and prayed and the kids had a great time. They are so precious!

Today the verse below came to mind: 

For everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved. How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? As it is written,
"How beautiful are the feet of those that preach the good news."
-romans 10:13-15

It kind of makes me laugh because not once have my feet been clean this trip. Even after my bucket shower I always seem to have mud all over haha. But we're reaching as many people as we can despite the outward appearance. 

I can't put into words the emotions I get when a child raises their hand to accept Christ or when they tell you they want to grow up and be a doctor or a nurse. They have dreams just like the kids in America it doesn't matter that they live in the dirt and have no idea what a computer does, the only difference is the kids in America take for granted the opportunities that they have that these kids will never get to see. I honestly think this is the only reason i'm set on making it through nursing school right now. 

Where ever we are.

Yesterday we did something called missionary hands where we go house to house to help people with anything they might need. It's so awesome to go into the houses and experience the everyday life of the people here! I got to help dig a post hole with a double shovel and machete which I used to get the clay dirt off the shovel. Then we helped a woman wash dishes traditional style just a bucket of water and a little piece of soap. 

Last night was probably the worst night of sleep I think I have ever experienced we're staying on a church floor which I have done before but I woke up at 3 this morning freezing and feeling extremely sick I still have no idea why, but out bathrooms are outside and I didn't know how to open the church doors so I laid there for hours to get up at 6 to get a bucket shower which consists of a bucket of water that you pour on yourself. 

So far it has been sweet where ever we are in el Salvador. I actually got to preach tonight it was pretty awesome. I can't wait to reach the kids tomorrow! 

The traveling begins.

Today we leave until the 16th of July. We're traveling to another destination in el Salvador about an hour away from where we have been staying and then Honduras which will be around a 15 hour bus ride to the coast. I most likely won't have Internet but I'm going to save these entries and post them when I can find Internet.  

Please keep me in prayer! 

If it's just for one

Today we had three programs around and in San Salvador. The first program was in one of the most dangerous places surrounding San Salvador many kids came out and they were extremely open to prayer. We prayed for sickness and salvation. One little girl burst into tears after we prayed. As anywhere that we'll be working the community had many needs. We were in the country and the houses are made of tin roofs and dirt floors. The streets have no names and garbage lines the edges of the dirt roads while sewage runs through the middle. The kids shirts are dirty with many holes and they're considered lucky if they have a pair of dollar store flip flops to wear. But let me tell you that I have met some of the most incedible soccer players despite their footwear. 

The faces of the children are etched into my mind especially the last glimpse of them as we drive away. Keep praying for me and my team. So many kids are being reached and we only expect more. We're willing to go through evvery situation imaginable if it means we can reach one more child.

It's not for nothing

It's another street ministry day and I'm on the bus right now headed to the city of San salvador. 

I know that over the next couple weeks you most likely will read some entries from me that might not make sense to you but I want to explain why I'm here and some of the reasons that I keep coming back. 

If you have talked to me in person before I'm sure I have told you story after story of some of my experiences of being overseas but I don't come here just to provide the stories they come along with the mission. 

Words can't explain my surroundings or the tears on my face when a child that doesn't know love refuses to let go of my waist as I'm forced to get on the bus and leave just to watch them chase us through the streets as we drive away. But I'll do the best that I can to explain the situation here.

Gangs control El Salvador not the kind of gang you would find in the US but imagine every neighborhood having one. Zones here would be our neighborhoods and between the zones you would experience gang retaliation on a daily basis. Gangs get their money by making known their presence in an area. Small shops and companies such as buses are required to pay a fee to the gangs for "protection." So they get money by threatening communities and if you dont pay up they will kill you. 

Between the guerilla wars and gang retaliation (as of two years ago) 80 percent of the population was under the age of 21. Many kids are orphans working and living on the streets raising siblings and trying to find some food. Last year I watched out the window as children chasesd a garbage truck to get the food that people threw out. Full on sprint of a group of kids. 

So many of these kids don't have parents, they don't have food, or a home. Gangs start recruiting at the age of 7. The older guys hang out with the boys and teach them gang signs and invest time with them so the kids have a sense of a family, they get money from the gang system and can support their families and siblings. In return they become a member of the gang which is a life long commitment. And the pattern continues. The girlfriends of the gang members are susceptible to any member of the gang that wants to use her but in return she is protected and financially supported by the gang. 

The pattern continues day after day unless someone steps in to change it. Its Injustice at it's finest. 

Kings castle ministries started in the 1980s with a vision to reach the children of el Salvador before they were recruited into gangs. They started to break the pattern by doing street ministry. Programs specifically designed for kids to tell them that Jesus loves them and to bring hope through the gospel. They had feeding programs and churches planted. They go out and bus the kids to church. They showed them that gang life isn't the only path to take. 

So I am here. These are the kids that I am working with. It is not easy, I don't get a good nights sleep, I am dirty,  i am sick and exhausted the majority of the summer, I always seem to get bit by something haha but I wouldn't trade this for any amount of money. If I could live everyday of my life for the rest of my life like yesterday it wouldn't be long enough.

I'm not risking my life for nothing, im no better than the kids living on the street, theres no difference we all have the same heart and were created for the same purpose. I know Gods protecting me but Im not going to sugar coat any of the experiences that I have here. You may never find yourself on the streets of el salvador but I want to give you a glimpse of reality that these children face everyday. 

Las delicias

 Today broke my heart, first day of ministry and we were in the most dangerous community in all of el Salvador everyday someone is murdered the kids have stories that could break any person they see dead bodies all the time and they tell Kristal the different ways the gangs cut up the bodies to warn other people the pastor that we worked with was insane him and his wife work in the zone and they didn't have a car so they would have to walk back at night and he would be scared to walk back through the community with his wife because the gangs would rape her. She told him not to hold back because of her and if she was to die to keep on going to reach the kids without her. A man came up to the pastor one night and said im going to kill you i was paid 50 dollars to kill you my boss doesnt like what you are doing in our community. The pastor replied not if i kill you first. The man looked confused and the pastor finished saying not if i first kill you with Love of Christ. After a while of standing there the man said I have been trying to kill you but something is stopping me. He concluded by saying someone is protecting you and left into the night that was 6 years ago now. Their saying in the morning before the pastor would leave to work there would be "today is a good day to die" his stories made me cry and once we prayed for the kids ahhhh it was insane most of the kids were praying for a parent who is an alcoholic and abuses them it was so messed up. Before kings castle got there no one wanted to go into that zone the people used to live in cardboard boxes and the kids would terrorize anyone who came in the girls would say they wanted to grow up and have as many boyfriends as their mothers had and the fathers weren't real fathers but alcoholics. Kings castle started their first church there in the 80s and now the community has their own programs and teams from the community. 

 It's so sad here. It's so messed up! Please continue to pray for the chdren of el salvador 

San Salvador

Today is our first day of street ministry! We worked the last week learning dramas and skits to reach the children and now we're finally ready. I was bit by something the other night and have been sick the past couple days but good news it wasn't deadly. I am perfectly fine now! We finished "bootcamp" last night and my team and I are looking forward to these next couple weeks. Please keep us in prayer! I can't wait to tell you about all the children we meet!

El Salvador

I made it to el Salvador safely on Friday. The Internet has been a little bit sketchy so I'm sorry for not being able to blog. My team and I have been training for the coming weeks at the beautiful lake campus that is located over looking a volcano crater lake. So far it is going great! We're in "boot camp" right now that will last three more days. The reason for this is to get prepared for the vigorous schedule and travel that we'll be experiencing. This includes 6am runs, time for reading the word, and practicing different dramas and programs that will be used for reaching the children. 

Day 1 I lost my water bottle and iPod touch thankfully I found both throuh out the day :) 

I'm pretty sure we have bed bugs here due to the red blotches on my legs. No worries mom it's not Mosquitos but thanks for the 3 things of bug spray you snuck into my bag hah! There hasn't been a case of malaria around the camp. 

Right now I'm on a bus into the city of San Salvador to go to the big tent church. Many people go to this church and the church is actually like it sounds a tent. It has dirt floors and folding metal chairs but don't let the description of the outward appearance fool you. Gods presence is there and the people are desperate for Him and they are not ashamed to show it. There's so many times that I find myself in the US distracted while in church it makes me hunger for the simple jungle church services that meet in a structure that's barely standing with one audio speaker and a common man playing an old guitar while singing his heart out to God with the congregation in tears singing their hearts out with the same passion. I find myself with them not even understanding the words but in unity with them feeling Gods presence.

Next week we leave for another location in el Salvador we'll most likely stay on the floor of the church so I'm pretty sure I won't have Internet. But I'll keep you updated as much as I can! 

Summer 2011 El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Honduras

It has been a while since I last blogged, reading over some entries from last summer makes me even more excited for my next venture. This year I will be traveling to 3 countries in 6 weeks. I fly out of Newark Friday morning at 6. Once I arrive in El Salvador my team and I will meet for the first time and we will have a couple days to get to know each other. From there we travel... alot! Please keep me in your prayers. Most of the time I will not have internet but I ill update you as much as I can. I will be using an ipod touch to type so spare me if my entries are a little short haha. I can't wait to tell you about this summer! I can't thank you enough for your support!!
-Bri