Friday, May 27, 2011

Amigos New Property

Construction on our new property is bumpin'. Our latest addition is our new Rancho. All our Devo's and meetings will be held here starting next year. Our community development team has got it together. We are all still standing in awe of this new structure.







Meanwhile, Julio has been working hard making new beds. We have several weeks this summer with over 60 short term missionaries coming down. That puts us about 30 beds short. So, Julio gets out his tools and welds together 20 new bunk beds...no big deal.








More to come...
Joey

what we need is You

We have been praying to see through "an eternal lens" lately.
The world through my eyes is a scary place. My selfish motives, pride, and negativity can blur God's amazing creation and story into a dark and dreadful place. We are asking God to grant us more of Him, nothing more. What we need to set us free and live this story right is to be satisfied and see Christ's love as sufficient, nothing else. When this happens, the world begins to look like a much more pleasant place, and we start doing wonderfully crazy things. Jesus and Paul's backwards, selfless teachings make more sense. The needs of those around us take precedence over our own. We give sacrificially to those in need and we do it with a cheerful heart! Apart from Christ, these ideas just don't make sense to me. I'm too committed to me. But with the clear focused lens of Jesus' unwaivering, sacrificial and abundant love in our lives we begin to live like Jesus and become more like him. Romans 8:29 says we are being "sanctified" which simply means we are becoming more like Him.

Father, grant us this. We want to see things the way you do. We want your backwards teachings that shook the world and made pharasees stand still in awe to grasp our hearts in a way that we can't describe.
More of you Jesus.

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

...2 months of photos

The Amigos Worship CD is finished and in Nicaragua! I have been working with the the staff on this project for the last 3 months and it's finally ready.




A surgical brigade just left us. They performed over 40 surgeries. This is the Post-op room full of grateful patients.




Praying for the patients right before surgery.









The staff went to the beach for a night.




We had our very own Nicaraguan Crawfish Boil. The shrimp were BIG.



One of our high school groups from the spring having a bible study out in the street.



We moved into our new office. Katie Fitzgerald, one of our long-term missionaries is on the front porch area of the new office.