Annndd I’m back, Alexa again, here to tell you about Frequency!

Firstly, Welcome home Nicaragua! Our team came in at 3:30 am, had a few hours of sleep, and then jumped right back in to Frequency tonight. Our service started off with a little stomp performance to get us in the missions mood.

Some of the testimonies shared tonight were from Miranda, Shayna, Brooke, and James, who each had some awesome experiences and truly unique stories to tell. Pastor Jeff talked about how truly proud he is of the entire team and he believes that this trip was the best trip he’s ever been on to Nicaragua. Way to go guys, we are so proud of you!!

The end of the night we were entertained by another performance called Set Me Free by the team. I personally love the dramas performed by our mission kids and we as a youth group are so blessed to have a drama team in general. Its amazing seeing how these performances transcend the language barriers wherever they are performed!

Romans 10:14-15 (New International Version)
14How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!”

Again, we are so proud of both the Nicaragua and the Netherlands teams, everyone who participated really does have “beautiful feet” and have changed the lives of each person they have encountered. I’m sure Jesus is so proud of each and everyone one of you!

UPCOMING EVENTS!!

BIG SERVE! August 10-12, Cost 10$, Register online! Just look under the “calendar & events” at the top of the page!
WATER WARS! This Friday! Join us for water balloons and other fun water games at the youth center, 7 – 9 PM
NO FREQUENCY NEXT WEEK! Instead, join us at the Colosseum at 12:15 NOON for pizza and bowling!
MEGA SPORTS CAMP VOLUNTEERS! Are you interested in helping out? Contact Pastor Jan for more info! Online registration is now CLOSED.
FREQUENCY POOL PARTY! At Brandi Fronte’s house, 7/27, from 2 – 6 PM. Check under “Calendar & events” and click on POOL PARTIES.

Have an awesome week guys!! See you at the Colosseum next Wednesday!
In Christ,
Alexa

My phone says 3:15… Hoping for the best! Hope u can sleep in your cars!!! Again sorry!

Trying to get back as soon as we can… They lost our sound system so we had to get it shipped to CLA… But they kept our trash cans!!! See u at 3:30a!!!
Sorry for the early arrival!!

On the trip home…. And they saved our trash cans for us!!! So happy about that!

See ya soon!

Still on the plane!!! Taxiing down the runway to the gate!!! Customs… Recheck… And get to the gate!!!

One hour delay… Pray it doesn’t mess up our connection!!! We had several hours so we should be ok!

Hola from the whitest kids on this trip!! Today was quite an adventure. We started the day off by zip lining through the canopy of the Nicaraguan jungle!! Half of our team is in the hospital with broken necks…HA, NOT! For the insane ones on this trip, they decided to go upside-down or Superman style! Scarrrrryy!! The Native men that were working the zip-lines were helping us attach to the line. These were the instructions: “ Jump on one, two, SIX!” It was so funny because I’m pretty sure they didn’t know that 3 is way before 6. Many of us were terrified of going on the zip-lines, but ended up having a blast!

Afterwards, we went to Catarini. It was SO beautiful there! I think that the landscape here is so green and beautiful! (Katie) Then we got to shop at a little market there and got some souvenirs.

Then we left for lunch. We ate at Tip-Top, which is like Nicaragua’s version of KFC…it was very scrumptious!! J  We got our own private room upstairs, and a secret entrance to the kid’s playground! YEAHHSON!!

Next, we toured the Volcano Masaya, where the sulfurous air burned our lungs and eyes…but it was such a cool feeling!! (Zach) WE (Katie and Kaitlyn) personally thought it was wretched. Matt Noh thought it was righteous. Some of us wore pretty radical gas masks. They looked RIGHTEOUS (Matt).

When we returned to the campgrounds, we “chilled” until it was dinner time. As usual, the options included plantains, chicken, and rice. Yum…not really. After 10 days of it, a person gets pretty sick of it. (Zach) There were some little boys there making these awesome creations out of palm tree leaves. We gave all four of them a plate of food, and it was really moving because they kept asking us for money. After asking one of the little boys he said he needed to buy shoes for school, but the truth was that if he didn’t go home with money, he would get hit by his mom. A lot of us were crying because of this. God comforted us all though. We know he will protect these children if we continue to pray about it.

When we returned once again, Eric and Abdias filled us in on Metanoia Missions. It was real real cool!! We got to pray for them and then for the seniors on the trip that will soon be going off to college… We will miss them very much. We are all glad that we came on this trip because God definitely changed us. Can’t wait to see you all!!!

SHOUTOUTS:

-What up its Ellie, Leah and Chelsea!!!!!!!!!!! I MISS MY MOMMY! Look who it is….Brooke! J

-James would like to be taken to McDonalds when he gets home.J

-Chelsea would like some spaghetti!!

-Holla to Kari, Cherith, Deanna and Dana!  From Shayna =]

-I LOVE YOU MOTHER. – Matthew Noh

-Jenna loves her family and misses them bunches!!! Can’t wait to see you ALL on Wednesday! I would like to be served something other than chicken…thank you mommyJ LOVE YOU ALL!<3

-Mommy, Daddy, and Kenzie I love you! Katie

Spent another hour trying to load the shout out and it failed!!

Spent quite sometime trying to send our shout out video! It’s about 6 mins long and can’t seem to get it on to YouTube! Kept saying it would take an hour to load and that’s tough to do when your wifi signal is in the rain! Unfortunately rain and computers don’t work well together!! I will try in the afternoon!