Describing the last 24 hours is shaping up to be a truly difficult task.
I am sorry that I am just now getting to the blog. Today has been very very full. We just finished our daily wrap up with the team and I am going to write till I stop making sense. It's been a long day so I will try to type fast.
In tonight's wrap up, Chase Kuwitsky gets the credit for the title of the blog. As we were processing the last 24 hours, he said, "The only way to describe last night and all day today is: outside the box".
Believe me, Chase hit the nail right on the head.
To pick up where we left off in yesterday's blog: We went to church last night and it was a very different experience for all of us.
Words are really not going to do this justice so if we decide to release the video (which we have) you are just going to have to see it. It was an absolute crazy blast for everyone there and it was most definitely "outside of the box". Because I really want to get to our experience today, I will give you a short descriptive Top 10 list:
1. 3 hour service with about 300 Nicaraguans that leaned to the Pentecostal flavor.
2. A messianic Jewish rabbi with an awesome beard that he's worked on for a long time.
3. An interesting service kickoff with a great band and the rabbi playing two Shofar's with the band singing in Spanish, Hebrew and English.
4. This same rabbi proceeded to lead worships with the band for 2 hours. He also rapped a little in Spanish, Hebrew and English.
5. Every Ambassador leading the entire congregation with the Rabbi in congregational dancing that turned into a huge Congo line.
6. Lot's of sweat and exercise, more than any baseball game played so far in Nicaragua.
7. Very interesting interpretive dancing by the Rabbi's dance team.
8. A message given by the same Rabbi which was actually a little long.
9. A mystery Nicaraguan pot luck dinner with the entire congregation.
10. A few guys on the team began to have a little case of irritable bowel syndrome which often happens when you head south of the border of the United States of America. Thankfully we found some toilet paper for a few of the guys. It took a little work but the paper was finally secured and utilized.
A few on the team have carried this same syndrome with them throughout the day today. Thankfully all are on the mend.
Well, as expected, my typing and thinking are struggling a bit. In the morning we are not leaving till 8:50 so I will have time to catch you all up about today's activities.
I am so thankful for this experience. I am very proud of our guys. They are serving the Lord very well and God is truly working in and through their lives.
Thank you all for your prayers and we are grateful for our families back home.
Posted on
Fri, July 29, 2011
by Chris Wall