The time here has been great! God had given our team a closeness that I have never felt in people outside my family. We have only been together for less than a week, and it feels like weeks. Time is going to go by so fast, it already is.        Speaking to someone who does not know english is amazing, nerve racking, and..amazing. Today we went to a group of high school students in a school and talked to them. After a few people, Lakin, Keith, Jared and Derrick talked we prayed for a few people and then just began to hangout with them and talk. I know...

Wow! Who would have thought that a little under a year ago, this little West Virginian would be going to Peru? Who would have thought i would fall so in love with it that i would return again this year? After multiple days of traveling, we FINALLY landed in Iquitos and I was assured that this was the place i needed to be this summer! A smart girl once said, wherever you go, there you are, and that could not be more true! I am still in shock that I am in Peru! We have had so many opportunities it is unreal! My team is bangin awesome! The other night we had to make dinner which was spaghetti...

Once there was 16 college students…                  who left their homes…   and went to a land far, far away…   a land with crazy animals…             river baths… new foods and places to sleep.   Once there was 16 college students…   who saw God heal the deaf, feed the hungry, a love the poor…...

Dear Candace,   What is this? This insane lie that you believe to be truth… Would you like to hear it: You are living exactly the way I want you to live. NO, you aren’t. Candace, I didn’t call you to complacency or comfort. I didn’t call you to a sunday faith. I called you to be RADICAL. I describe a radical faith by making this simple request: deny yourself and follow me. Follow ME! I heard you say “YES!! I would love to!” You said it boldly. I Will follow him. When you said yes the angels rejoiced! I said it will not be easy for you...

Dear Candace,   What is this? This insane lie that you believe to be truth… Would you like to hear it: You are living exactly the way I want you to live. NO, you aren’t. Candace, I didn’t call you to complacency or comfort. I didn’t call you to a sunday faith. I called you to be RADICAL. I describe a radical faith by making this simple request: deny yourself and follow me. Follow ME! I heard you say “YES!! I would love to!” You said it boldly. I Will follow him. When you said yes the angels rejoiced! I said it will not be easy for you...

There was a shift in the atmosphere when they carried him in. The festivities of a community meal where food made for 50 fed over 100, came to an awkward halt and it seemed like even the air didn’t know what to do.  And then the wailing began. His name was Urelo.  Our team had sent this 16 year-old boy only a day earlier to the city to be treated for a tooth infection.  He died in the hospital. As the woman wept over his body I found myself moving forward to kneel, grasping his feet I began to pray.  Why?  Less than a week earlier I had learned that my Grandma...