Sitting in a muggy courtyard, on the cold tile floor with the fan blowing on their backs are some pretty amazing people.  They are 14 students who decided to leave their comfortable lives and any possible “cool” summer plans back…

My team from Illinois had been assigned the task of creating a VBS curriculum about the all powerful, awesome power of God. At first they were perplexed but while praying, they kept hearing about the 10 plagues, so they put…

This is my friend, Mauricio. I met him 5 years ago when he first came to El Puente as a recovering addict. He has been clean for 4 years and now works at El Puente. I found out 3 years…

Dr. Tom Reese is a man of great passion and compassion. In the 4 days of running a clinic in 4 different areas, including the area dump, he saw in excess of 300 patients. When asked, Dr. Tom stated that he…

Our days always started with prayer and devotions as well as some much needed breakfast to get our motors running before ministry! There is a local dump about 15 minutes outside of town.  Over the past 5 years a local…

We spent one afternoon on a scavenger hunt through the market in order to experience the culture and also to make gift baskets to bless some of the people in the church who had recently lost loved ones.  We got…

“But there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.” John 21:25 I have always been skeptical…

One of my favorite memories of our week in Leon, Nicaragua was our high-school youth sharing their stories.  Whether it was sharing with a person during door-to-door evangelism or during the evening worship services, every student had a chance to…