In Upward Pursuit!!: May 2009

Hay people of the world :D

So sorry I have not blogged in a very long time. I am not going to give an excuses cause there really is not any :D

I thought I would tell ya about the trip to Nicaragua that I went on in April. :)(:

Okay!! We (meaning around 16 students from my college and 5 adults from the church that is connected to the school) went to Nicaragua Friday April 10th and we stayed there through April 19th. We went to a city called Managua, and we were on the shore of Lake Nicaragua, and about 7 miles form Volcano Island. It was sooo00OO BEAUTIFUL, to see God's glory every minute of the day.

While there we went to the dump were the kids live that we witnessed to during the camp we had for them. It was such an eye opener to see what are people live. It was funny you would think that it would be a gloomy and depressing there. But it really is not God is there and you could see it. Kids were smiling when you played and gave the attention. A man was reading the Bible on the side of the "road"(a dirt pathway). We talked to him and learned his dally schedule. He was telling us how God placed him in the dump for a reason and that is his mission field. He told us "if you cannot witness in your own backyard then, you cannot do it in different countries." :D Every encouraging guy, he also prayed over some of our team.

After the dump we went to a volcano. A real active one, it was so much fun and beautiful like no other!!

Then the next day we prepared that camp for the kids who were going to show up on Monday. :D
The kids were around 6-12 years of age. When they got there to the camp they looked tough and acted like it. By the end of the 3 days we spent with them they did not want to leave and we did not want to live. The reason is of what they were going back to. Most of the girls by the age of 13-16 are sold into prostitution. The reason is there parents either do not want them or they sell them so there family can eat. The guys will probably live in the dump the rest of there lives or die of overdose, by sniffing glue. They might get a job in the dump by separating the plastic from metal.

In light of that, God did a lot through those 3 days with those kids. Some kids started to take other peoples tray and wiping off the tables that were dirty. :D

These kids have touched my life and has made me a look at life in a totally different way.
After the 3 days of camp we helped around the camp, doing what they do when no kids are there. :D We painted fence pots, moved stones, cleaned sorted closes and such, painted a roof, and scooped manure for fertilizer.

God taught a lot things to me and the group that we went down there!!
Praise God for His blessing on my life and the kids down there. :)(:
If would like to know more detail about the trip, you can respond to the message through another message or you can email me at drew.powell@bcom.org.

Have an awesomely blessed day in the Lord!! :D

"The rich and the poor have a common bond, The LORD is the maker of them all."

Proverbs 22:2