Hello Everyone welcome to another blog update regarding outreach. We are so glad you are here! We have decided to do two outreach teams one in Malawi and the other in a rural part of Costa Week. Weekly updates regarding both teams will be shared here. With our many different backgrounds, culture and spiritual gifting we have come together in this season to serve one Lord. Keep reading to hear what the Lord is doing through us!

Costa Rica Update

Week 5

As we enter this week of outreach it was bittersweet leaving the area we have been serving and heading back to base losing three members of our team as they go their separate ways. We are thankful for the time we got to serve along side one another in this season. Left is the two married couples that were joined by a Brazilian as they finish the last two weeks of outreach. This week we’ve been able to participate in park evangelism. We also got to do bible distribution and pray over people in a community that was very open and inviting. A child center welcomed us and we got to play games, sing songs, the Brazilian did a drama and speak to kids in a broken community about the Joy of the Lord. Both the younger kids and teenagers really were attentive and you can tell they were touched by us spending time with them. A big part of our time on base is helping with various base projects which we will dive into more next week as we have another team of high schoolers join us. We look forward to how God will continue to work through us.

Malawi Update

Week 5

This week started out with a beautiful Saturday sabbath where we were able to spend time with the Lord being rejuvenated for the week ahead. Benji was able to attend a worship workshop at Flood Church that was followed by a concert he participated in. Sunday we visited a former SSD student and a youth group she volunteers with. After an unexpectedly long drive, turning around a few times and asking many people for directions we arrived and taught a sack garden workshop to about 30 teenagers. There was an amazing atmosphere of joy and Jill gave them an encouraging word. We also met many kids in the village that were very interested in practicing their English with us. Monday we participated in a trash clean up in the same area as our previous clean up. It was refreshing to see how this part of the river was beautified with just a few hours of hard work. By cleaning up all this trash our hope is that it will help make the nearby park more welcoming and encourage people to see the beauty in the nature around them. Tuesday through Friday were spent doing projects around Whitney and Kosi our hosts garden. We were able to make a chicken coop with scrap wood, build a two bin compost for their food waste, and refresh their garden beds. On Friday we also were invited to a bri (a South African barbecue) at a local Brazilian missionary family’s home. We looked through the wife’s stock of assorted bags and other sewn goods that she teaches local girls to sew. On Saturday our team split forces sending Heidi and Alison to drop off supplies at Mpasa Children’s Center in Phalombe and the rest finishing up the building projects. In Phalombe they were warmly welcomed with joyful singing from members of 180 families that got hit hard by cyclone Freddy. The families came from 6 villages. Together with our partner Flood Church Blantyre we were very fortunate to be able to deliver sanitation items and food to hold them over until the next harvest.