trusting the process

 

Here we are our at our last ministry! My team, and two others, took a 5 hour car ride and 2 boats to make it to the beautiful island close to Bocus Del Torro. It is another YWAM base that we will be serving at before we head to debrief and back to the states in mid June. I can not even begin to explain how beautiful it is here, we have an amazing view of the ocean and when its clear we can see the mountains! Some interesting things about where we live is…

• we don’t have access to anything other than the neighbors house unless we take a boat
• it is almost completely based off of solar power(so we have to charge our devices during the day and we can’t use any electricity at night)
• our water is based off of 4 tanks which fill up when it rains (low water means no showers)
• we wash our clothes in the creek
• it’s so humid here that it normally take about 4 days for your clothes to dry outside(which means lots of mold)
• it’s termite season which means doors closed and lights out at night
• there is bioluminescent water here so at night the water glows
• since there are not any stores or many houses here you see so many stars and shooting stars at night (since we are living on a remote island there is very little light pollution so there are so the sky is filled with stars and shooting stars)
• the water hear is almost completely clear some days which means while free diving you see manna rays, lots of neon coral, starfish, and baby octopi

Here our three teams cook, clean, do hospitality work, manual labor, play with the neighbor kids, and get to participate in kids ministry throughout the week! We also live with 2 YWAM teams that do surf ministry throughout the week.
In our days here we have some down time which is amazing to begin processing going home and great time to spend in bible studies and time in the word.
Its definitely a ministry we have all learned you have to have a foundation in the Lord and fully be able to trust him with the work we are doing. Because even though this ministry sounds easy, its really easy to question what we are doing here sometimes. Cooking lunch and dinner for 40 people and sending people out to share the gospel, one of those might sound more important, but while being here I’ve learned that they share about the same importance.

You can’t plant seeds without preparing the soil. A sermon everyone has probably heard here is real life.

Preparing the soil here looks like every missionary living on this base gets feed, this base is clean and we make sure everything is working, keeping the property mowed, boats fixed, and moss off the stairs, planting banana tress and keeping a community garden so the indigenous can get there nutrition from fruits and vegetables, and interceding daily for the people spreading the gospel here & believers everywhere.

Ill break it down.

We need to make sure everyone get feed so they are physically able to do work and bring kingdom through that.
We make sure this base is clean and make sure everything is working so that we can house over 40 missionary here.
We keep the property mowed, boats fixed, and moss off the stairs so we can pick up kids from other parts of the island and successfully/safely host kids ministry.
We plant banana tress and keep a community garden so the indigenous can get there nutrition from fruits and vegetables.
Lastly, we constantly intercede for missionaries here, and everywhere, to prepare the peoples hearts they will interact with.

I am so thankful to be spending my last 1.5 months here in Bocus. Soaking in every second with these amazing people and so excited to see the growth that comes out of this season!