Outreach in Puerto

Hey Y'all Week 2 of outreach has just ended and the start of week 3 has begun! It has been a good two weeks, we have had some good time, but we have also had some hard times. We have started to from some great friendships with the people here in Puerto. We have kids hanging out with us even when we aren't doing ministry! It's so awesome! The past 2 weeks have gone by so fast! They have been filled with ministry. We have attended church about 8 times since being here. We have been able to do dramas and many of us have been able to give our testimonies! One of the local churches has a lot of youth in it and we have been spending a lot of time with them. The two Saturdays that we have been here we have played soccer with them on the beach and then have gone to their youth group! We have some great friendship forming with them. The place that we are staying at in Puerto has a skate park in the backyard! It's has been an awesome tool for us to used to do ministry! We open the park 2-3 times a week and we have gotten to know a lot of kids through this! Last Friday night we had a skate competition! One of the guys on our team put the whole thing together. We had about 70 people here and about 30 kids went in the competition. We gave out free hot dogs and have some awesome prizes for the winners of the competition! It was great! We also painted a church this week! It was super some to do something useful for the local church. The people of the church were so grateful for all our help and it's so awesome to drive by the church now and see how awesome it looks! Another thing that we did was go out into the town at night and hand out some flowers to the ladies! It was such an awesome experience. My group was able to pray for healing over a girl who has had some stomach pain for many years, her doctors haven't been able to find out whats wrong. So we prayed over her and God healed her! Glory to God! We also came across some girls who were just talking about life and God, and we were able to talk and pray for them and they were just in awe that God had sent us to them! So we have had some awesome time of ministry and we still have 2 more weeks here! I am so excited to see what God is going to do! Unfortunately we have some had some harder times since being here in Puerto. There is a Jungle past behind the property and it is the place where most of the robberies happen here in Puerto. One late afternoon we were walking down the jungle path toward a look out point of the cliff and we unfortunately got robbed. The only thing that got taken was one of the girls camera. I had my camera on me, but luckily they didn't see it. Once we got back to our place we called the police and they went to the area that we got robbed at to look for the boy. The police luckily found some boys, so the next day, Ruth, the girl who's camera was taken, and Mason went with our leader to go identify the boy, in Bribri. After a long day they were able to identify the boy and so later on this month they are going to have to testify in court. Thanks for all your payers and support! Much love Hannah

Outreach Here I Come

Hey Ya'll!

I know it's been a long time, but things here have been pretty busy lately. A week ago we finished up the lecture phase part of the DTS. It was a great week, our topic was Spiritual Warfare. It was quite the week. We had 3 groups come, 2 of the groups were 40-50 people, and the other group was about 20 people. So it was super busy around here and there were SO MANY DISHES! Haha. But me and my dishes crew had a blast and really enjoyed our last week of dishes. We had a celeabration dinner on the Friday night, consisting of pizza, to finish off our time of dishes.

This is my dish crew and me on our last night of dishes! It was an awesome night!






So our last week of Lecture Phase was super packed. It was the graduation for the School Of Worship on the Wednesday night, it as a good night of celebration with them, but it was also kind of sad because some of them would be leaving to go home and then the other half were leaving for outreach. It was hard to say good-bye after 3 months of being together, but it is an exciting new part for everyone here at the base!

And yesterday I got back from NIKO. NIKO is a one week program that every DTS at YWAM San Jose has to do, its a program that challenges you and pushes you to your limits. It was quite the week of adventures! I can't tell you anything about it, thats how the program works. We didn't know anything about it when we went and we aren't allowed to pass on any information, just so that it stays a secret for the next people who do it.

So Monday morning I leave for Outreach! I am head to Puerto Viejo for a month! I'm super excited to be headed to the beach where the sun is hot and the ocean is blue! We are going to be pioneering a YWAM Base there and working with the local churches. Its going to be awesome, I am super excited! A side note: we aren't going to be able to take any computers, so I won't be updating much. we are allowed to go to internet cafe's on our days off. So hopefully I Will get in a couple of updates to let you know more details about what we are doing there.

Well, I have so much to do before Monday morning. Cleaning clothes, packing bags, and enjoying my last weekend with everyone in the DTS.

Much love,
Hannah