The past year has been riddled with conversations among friends, family and christian colleagues about the nature of our individual calling within the Kingdom of God. To be quite honest, this is something that i have struggled with most of my life even though I grew up in a christian home. My father was, and [...]

Hi there! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Kathy Pacheco and I am an 18 year old Nicaraguan. I’ve had the privilege to translate for this mission team for 2 years now, thanks to David Russell who introduced me to the Lillies. It’s truly been a blessing to have this [...]

This morning began another early morning for the Woodcreek 20′s.  After our devotional time our team had breakfast and headed out to La Chureca (the dump). Today was especially challenging for us; partly due to the fact that the majority of the team was not feeling well, but also because of the difficult things we [...]

Greetings from Nicaragua! As Matt mentioned in the last post, last night the Woodcreek team went to Camino de Vida to help out with the neighborhood children’s program. The One by One staff expected around 30 children to attend, but we were blessed with over 80 kids! Jeremy (a member of the One by One [...]

Hello everyone, I would like you all to know that today we had an awesome day of rest!!  Since we have only been here for one day, it doesn’t really seem as though we’ve earned a day of rest.   However, it was a very fun day that we got to spend with the Russell’s. [...]

Today, like every day was made by God. I woke up to light pouring into our room and birds chirping outside my window feeling very rested. The fact that I was rested was an answer to prayer because we all had a long day of traveling yesterday and I went to bed exhausted. Then I [...]

This morning I was able to help with the children’s service at Camino de Vida! This is the main ministry that Chase and Julie Russell are in charge of and it was an exciting morning to say the least. We began the morning helping set up and spending some time playing with a few of [...]