I’m sitting here writing this after an eventful day, a day full of hiking and beautiful, lush scenery and long drives through several small towns in the mountains of Costa Rica. But before I tell you about that…let me rewind to last Monday. Our topic(s) this week included Intercession/Prayer, the Holy Spirit, and Spiritual Warfare. Lots to cover in 5 days, and to be honest we didn’t touch on all of them completely, but it was a great week of lectures nonetheless.

We had an awesome morning on Thursday, for our creative intercession time with the DTS. We had a giving day, where all students and staff prayed and asked God what to bring to the giving day, and to whom. It was incredible. People gave all sorts of stuff- from encouraging notes/verses, candy, money to help pay for the school, shirts, and even and Ipod and laptop! These items aren’t new…they are simply things that we have with us and feel like God wants us to give away. It is a lesson in being selfless, hearing God’s voice, loving each other, and giving up our rights to our personal belongings. These days are always very touching and humbling.



Other moments from the week:


Local outreach-prayer walk at a university
Elena and I (local outreach)


Staff BBQ last Sunday


So, back to today. We had our usual Sunday morning breakfast of fresh fruit, coffee, and pancakes, and then 15 of us piled in a van and headed to the mountains. We drove first to the YWAM base in Heredia (about 45 minutes away) and showed our students around. It’s a beautiful property with goats, chickens, dogs, cats, horses, barns, streams, etc. From there we hiked about 1.5 hours to the entrance of Monte de la Cruz…which is a huge cross sitting on top of a vista lookout. It was a great view!


After that we hiked around the area a little more until we found the waterfall. Several of the students jumped in the water (it was pretty freezing I was told) and from there we headed out. By the time we got back here it was 5 pm…a very full and wonderful day.

Another important part of our week…outreach decisions were made! We will have 3 teams since our group is large. Each of the 3 will do a portion of the 2 months in Costa Rica. One team (probably 6 or 7 people) will also be going to Haiti. Another team will be going to Mexico…and the third team, the one I’m on, will be going from Costa Rica to Nicaragua, then to El Salvador, then to Guatemala- kind of a Central American tour. I’m so so excited!! The students are praying about where they are supposed to go, and the staff is working on all of the logistics.

That’s all for now. Pray for the students this coming week- it’s a week full of ministry to them and times for them to work through some of their struggles and challenges…can be difficult, but it’s always a great week.