Friday, July 10, 2015

Costa Rica 2015 - part 1

Adventures in Costa!
Here are some photos from our first two weeks doing ministry in Costa Rica.
 
Our senior staff at an overlook
 
Makayla, Alice and Lindsey
 
The team praying together
 
Cooking together for the team
 
Fun times in the airport en route
 
Puppets show at a school in Cartago
 
Our hosts: Pastor Alfonso on the right,
his wife Grace on the left
 
Discipleship group time

Alice always finds the toys
 
Working with the students at a school

Most of our team
 
Group selfie overlooking the valley
 
"Prison shadows" at the ice cream shop
 
Ministry in a park in Santiago
 
John sharing the gospel
 
Lorenzo sharing with students
 
Erin and Megan hanging out with kids
 
Indoor school game

Walking through Cachi
 
Senior staff makes breakfast
 
Alice always makes friends

Our location
 
...in the valley
 
...in Cachi
 
Students share their faith in Paraiso
 
Alice receives a flower from a new friend
 
Alice LOVES slides now

Cutting pineapple for the team

Group photo in front of the ruins of the oldest
church in Costa Rica
 
Costa Rica is lush, green and beautiful
 
Sharing with locals in Birristo
 
...after a pick-up soccer game

One of our bus drivers
 

Alice LOVED going to school
 
Alice checking everyone out

Alice shaking hands

Doing performances in Cachi at the indoor field

The dance team performs in Paraiso

The girls soccer team plays a team in Paraiso

Alice squeezes through everywhere

Kayla and Lindsey in a shop in Birristo

Touring Cachi

A parade in Cachi

Games with locals in Tucurrique

Worn out
 
Dancing to worship with the students

Alice giving support to a student

Praying before the soccer game

Playing in the park in San Jose

Alice made another friend

At the school in Cartago
 
 
 

Sunday, June 28, 2015

And we're off!!

We are headed to Costa Rica! Our team is ready and we are so excited to see what God will do in and through our students. We will be visiting villages around the area and doing ministry and sharing the gospel through soccer, drama, dance and puppets.

The red star is where we will be staying in Cachi
 
June 29 - July 20: Cachi, Costa Rica (traveling almost every day to area villages)
July 20 - July 25: Jaco, Costa Rica (team debriefing)
July 25 - July 30: The teams goes back to the US, while the 3 of us stay for some family time

Also, we are excited to announce that we are expecting Powell baby #2 in January!!
Please pray for the health of mama, baby, Alice, Rainer and the rest of the team.


Here are a few more pictures from training camp week:
 
Meal time in our soccer jerseys

Part of our team performing a dance at Open House Day

  
Blue pack photo: what a difference a year makes! 
 
 

Monday, June 22, 2015

Training Camp... so far

We have been at training camp in Pardeeville, Wisconsin for almost a month now. Our students are now here, so our team is complete! We have a team of 41 with students and staff from all over the country and Canada. The team has been doing quiet times reading God's word, hearing talks from different leaders, meeting with their discipleship groups, cooking meals for the team and learning their skill groups, which for our team, includes soccer practice.


Hanging out under the big top
 
Rainer with his fellow food assistants
 
Food packing day
 
They arrive!
 
Staff disciplers working together
 
Staff training
 
Reign staff

Alice playing with Sophie and Jovie
 
We took Alice and our nanny,
to a waterpark on a free afternoon

On the lazy river
 
 
Spaghetti!
 
Chocolate anyone?
 
Alice and her TC sister Sophie
 
Alice's wonderful nanny Makayla
 
Playing with Alice in a playround
 
Alice in the tent
  
Running to worship!
 
 

Keeping cool on hot days
 
The family and Reign staff tents
 
We took Sophie and Alice
to the splash pad in town
 
Nervous about the slide
 
They loved it!