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Brenna M is a Global Intern who has been living in Peru for the last year. Here is an update on her summer break and entering in year 2. If you want to hear more about who she is and what she is doing, click here.
Wow! The past two months flew by and it is amazing that I have already started the…
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Missions Team
It has been a huge year for Every Neighborhood Partnership (ENP). Fresno’s a city that has many exciting moving parts.
This year our Neighborhood Development team launched a leadership cohort in Southwest Fresno. Each district selected two representatives from their neighborhood to attend the…
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Costa Rica Team Member
Our home base located in Desamparados, a town in the capital province of San Jose, has a population of 5 million people. Fitting enough, the name of the town means “Fatherless” or “Abandoned.” This seemed to be a central theme for our home town and the three other locations we had sites in: Los…
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Costa Rica Team Member
One of the things I wanted to learn by coming to Costa Rica was the commonalities and differences between my own Mexican culture and the Tican culture. There are words and phrases that they use that I don’t normally use, and vice versa! But there is a common value that I believe both Latino cultures…
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Costa Rica Team Member
For almost a year I got to look forward to going on this Exposure Trip to Costa Rica, and now it’s finally here!
I did not know what to expect going into this trip. I had no idea what my host family was going to be like, the food I was going to be eating, or what God wanted to teach me while I…
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China Team Member
My time in China was over in the blink of an eye, but I experienced so much in that short time.
Our team was constantly on the move, traveling by foot, planes, vans, taxis, subways, bullet trains, and even motorcycles! The beautiful scenery and culture we witnessed was enough to keep us…
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China team member
We visited Old Dali City in China and had the opportunity to converse with locals and tourists about the gospel. We approached people to ask them if they had ever heard of Jesus. When possible, we tried to continue the conversation. I had done this type of evangelism before in the United States, but…
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Costa Rica Team Member
On Friday, some of us started the morning at 5:15 by playing volleyball in the middle of the street before breakfast. Our host mom, Ana, made us some interesting pancakes, and at the office, we dove straight into our devotionals, which talked about Cain and Abel, Enoch, and Martha and Mary. After…
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Costa Rica Team Member
Wednesday in Costa Rica really threw us right smack dab into a perfect mixture of the beautiful and the ugly (in my opinion).
It was our first day at our mission sites, but a very unique first day. This week the kids are on their last week of their mid-school-year break. So groups got to accompany…
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Ukraine Team Member
I am so far from my comfort zone. I flew 16 hours and then drive another 12 hours to get here. At the camp, I sleep in a shed where the door does not close, swim in the Black Sea where the jellyfish are many, and the mosquitos are having a tough time finding a spot that hasn’t been bitten, including…
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