I got the privilege of serving along side Marcelo and his team, Geovanny, Chris, and Donna. They became my family. On Sundays I was in charge of worship for the kids, which means a whole lot of moving around. Most of the songs I do resemble zumba. Haha. I do not usually enjoy working with young kids, you can say what you want but nothing you say makes it less true. But God gave me a deep love for these kids and even though I couldn't always understanding everything they said He gave me the ability to communicate with them. God is so so so faithful. This was something I was so worried about before I went and as I think about it now being with them (the kids in Pochocuape) was not scary at all.
Not only did I work with kids in Sunday school, but I also worked in the school five days a week. Me and Donna would spend every morning teaching character lessons and English to preschool-6th graders. Being in the school almost everyday and then at the church on the weekends gave me the opportunity to see some of these kids every day of the week. God was building relationships and bonds that only He could. Some days in the school were harder than others but I believe that He used each and every day we were in those rooms to plant some seeds and sow some love into these lives that we got the chance to touch. Donna is still working in the school and I cannot wait to go back and see what God has done there.
These kids that I worked with, they are desperate for love, they are desperate for someone to hug them, for someone to tell them they are beautiful, for someone to dance with them. They want someone to notice them and love them, this is what I did. I got to love to these kids, I got to share God's love with them. I know I am repeating myself a lot here, but do you understand what kind of a blessing it is to love those who feel unlovable? Do you know what kind of impact that has? You know that even though I got on to these kids over and over and over again, at the end of the day they had to hug me and kiss me goodbye. There is no thing in this earth that is greater than love. Love that sits with kids in the dirt, love that lets them braid your hair (even though you hate it what people touch your hair), love that shows up, love that makes sounds and motions to try and communicate, love that holds on tight and never lets go, love that gave it all. This love is what they need. They need the love of Jesus. I am so blessed to have been able to be part of giving that love to them.
Will you pray with me that they would receive this love? The kind of love that reaches down into our brokenness and starts to heal us. The love that we are all missing until we find it and accept it. Will you pray for my friends as they lead, teach, disciple, and love the people of Pochocuape? That their lives would reflect Christs light and love so clearly that those who see wonder what they have that is different! Praise God with me for the work that He has begun and promises to fulfill in this neighborhood with such great need for it! God you are so amazing and I am humbled each day that you have chosen me to be a light unto this dark world! Would you show me how I can be light and love to others around me today and every day? I pray for my friends in Nicaragua as they minister to these people who are searching for something, God that you would show them that it is found in you and you alone? Thank you for the way you have worked and thank you for how you continue to work! You are so so good!
"If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." 1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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