1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,180 I've never done this before. That's not a scary thing to hear from a 2 00:00:05,180 --> 00:00:09,420 pastor, but that's a really scary thing to hear from your cholera-eologist right 3 00:00:09,420 --> 00:00:20,460 before you go into surgery. So we had our trip to Costa Rica. I didn't really 4 00:00:20,460 --> 00:00:27,500 plan on the trip. What happened was is I had mentioned that my wife and I had 5 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:32,440 gone to Costa Rica in January and got hooked up with a guy named Daniel Rojas 6 00:00:32,440 --> 00:00:38,400 and I said in a message I think that he needed help and I was thinking about 7 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:44,800 putting something together. Well I got bombarded after service, be careful what 8 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:51,200 you say or what you wish for, and people wanted to go. So we fast-tracked it. This 9 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:55,800 was a shotgun trip because they were needing help building some classrooms 10 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,880 for some kids that had been rescued out of the sex trafficking world and the 11 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:08,440 organ harvesting and blood harvesting. And so I asked, or we put together a team 12 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:14,040 and people just showed up. I did not ask one of these people to go. They did 13 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:19,200 it on their own. So I'm not guilty of anything. So I'm gonna ask them to come 14 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:22,760 up and we're gonna share just a little bit with kind of what the 15 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:35,120 Lord did when we were down there and where is everybody? Oh yeah they went 16 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:45,200 back. The coffee was that good. And so we're gonna pass this mic around and 17 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:50,000 Susan gets to start. And I'm just gonna have them kind of go through and just 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,240 give them like a quick synopsis. If they get too windy I'm gonna put my arm 19 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:59,440 around them like this and you guys nod your head and that means they're done. 20 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:10,620 Is this on? Oh it is. Well this was a ministry that was on our hearts, all of 21 00:02:10,620 --> 00:02:16,040 our hearts when you hear about these children and what they went through. For 22 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:23,440 me the most inspirational part was on the first Sunday when we were there we 23 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:31,160 were invited to the first church service and it was in Spanish. 24 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:39,120 Praise the Lord I understood it. But Pastor Daniel, after he gave his 25 00:02:39,120 --> 00:02:46,600 message he was talking to these girls. Remember there's 30 girls with their 30 26 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:52,000 babies and there was also children from the Starfish house which there was 27 00:02:52,000 --> 00:03:00,880 probably 40 of them. And they were all there with a few other folks but he was 28 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:06,480 telling how he loved to dedicate babies, how he loved the children. I mean 29 00:03:06,480 --> 00:03:12,960 obviously that's why his ministry is all about. But he said before I dedicate 30 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:18,680 these babies to this mommy you have to surrender your life to Jesus Christ 31 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:26,300 first and follow him. So as you remember there was 30 and I would count either 32 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:34,360 15 to 20 mommies came up with their babies to see, to save Jesus, to receive 33 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:42,500 Jesus in their lives. Sorry. But anyway to me that was praise the Lord and so when 34 00:03:42,500 --> 00:03:46,640 they were coming down the aisle after the service was over and I just 35 00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:51,680 reassured them continue to walk with Jesus because he will guide your lives. 36 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:57,000 He's gonna protect you and this baby. You need to continue to walk with him and so 37 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:02,840 that was that's all I gotta say about that. 38 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:04,840 [Applause] 39 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:11,420 I'm not gonna talk a lot. I do want to mention I've been overseas before with 40 00:04:11,420 --> 00:04:18,840 other missions teams and missions groups and you always have little in-group 41 00:04:18,840 --> 00:04:25,120 issues. You just do. And the first time that this team here this was the 42 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,880 first time I've ever been on a team where like there was like no issues. Like 43 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:32,160 God gave us a spirit of unity and of oneness that I hadn't seen before and it 44 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:34,960 was like anybody that needed help got help from someone else on the team and 45 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,400 there was just we all clicked we all had the same heart the same vision the same 46 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:42,600 purpose and so like it was just cool fellowship and ministering and laboring 47 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:46,320 with one another with like zero interpersonal issues so that was a cool 48 00:04:46,320 --> 00:05:00,840 blessing. Amen. That was a miracle. Yeah the first the first part of the trip when we 49 00:05:00,840 --> 00:05:05,360 actually got to see the kids a little bit more than the second part of the 50 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:17,160 second half was the first part when when you actually get to see. It's tough. 51 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:28,040 Really is. Just little kids and carrying babies but the the second half was more 52 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:33,680 nose to the grindstone because you're not there with the kids. We're in 53 00:05:33,680 --> 00:05:40,560 this separate building that none of the kids are on it's just us and Lauren 54 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:47,720 bless her heart she's the missionary from Michigan that is serving with Daniel. 55 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:57,280 She's amazing and yeah we just get the work done and go home get some rest eat 56 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:09,160 wake up the next day have more rice and beans. Driving was incredible. Yeah so 57 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,920 there weren't there weren't a whole lot of us that did I think there was maybe 58 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:19,280 three of us that drove and coming back and I did I was the least of them I just 59 00:06:19,280 --> 00:06:23,480 had a couple of short trips and coming back here it was like okay I got to put 60 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:29,720 my mind back into the United States. Everything is go go go it's dare them to 61 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:38,960 play chicken. So I don't I don't know how you managed your coming back but yeah 62 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:45,800 really cool experience that way if you like excitement go drive in Costa Rica. 63 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:58,480 But Daniel himself lionheart that's all I can think of. I don't like I don't like 64 00:06:58,480 --> 00:07:04,240 coming after you because now I feel like I need to cry but if the Lord ever puts 65 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:10,120 it on your heart go because he shows you so much more than you can even imagine. 66 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:15,040 You go there with a mind that you're gonna do something but God really does 67 00:07:15,040 --> 00:07:21,920 something in you and so if he says to go go and I have a whole lot to say but I 68 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,560 just can't. I won't cry through this whole thing but the kids just like they were 69 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:31,700 saying the children it's there's such a need there and the Stan and I have a 70 00:07:31,700 --> 00:07:36,600 ministry in Uganda and so I know what Daniel when he was speaking to me many 71 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:43,320 times there's so many needs and you feel like those needs are on you but you 72 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:48,400 wrote the reality is that God is the one who supplies all those needs and I just 73 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,440 pray that for this church if it if the Lord puts it on your heart to come 74 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:57,880 alongside our pastor and this church to help in that in any way just say yes 75 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:03,040 because God will show you so many things if you do so that's all I'm gonna say 76 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:18,080 because I won't cry. If you think she cries. The the thing that stood out to me 77 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:22,920 and like Sandy said we've been out of the country on several different 78 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:28,760 missions and even have a ministry in Uganda right now that's ongoing. The 79 00:08:28,760 --> 00:08:34,520 first time I ever went on a mission trip it wasn't because I really wanted to go 80 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:40,880 it's because my wife wanted to go okay and me being the man that wants to 81 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,640 protect my wife I went and I look at every one of these team members here on 82 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:56,920 my first trip God used my wife to get me there and I have been all about missions 83 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:04,080 ever since because he used my wife to get me hooked on you know what he's 84 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:11,280 really doing in the world and it means a lot and the even though we didn't get to 85 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:17,440 interact with the kids a lot and there's a reason behind that and it's very I 86 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:25,580 don't know you're gonna talk about that yeah but Scotty I'll explain why but we 87 00:09:25,580 --> 00:09:30,740 had a team that started out when that first went out there was like 15 or 8 88 00:09:30,740 --> 00:09:35,600 maybe 20 I think it's 23 something like that we're going God weeded it out to 89 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:42,840 nine and it was interesting because you get nine men and two strong women 90 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:49,840 together everybody's got their own idea what you know but it's really 91 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:55,340 interesting you and you just sit back and watch God work because he pulled 92 00:09:55,340 --> 00:10:00,000 every one of these guys together like they're they were on the team because 93 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,820 they were supposed to be on the team you know and God used like they said God 94 00:10:04,820 --> 00:10:11,360 used every one of us at first until we we saw what the kids were doing and then 95 00:10:11,360 --> 00:10:16,040 you turn the team loose for about five seconds and we rebelled right off the 96 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:21,000 bat they told us not to leave the compound and pretty soon everybody's 97 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:26,880 sneaking off the compound they don't do stuff but when it when it come to work 98 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:31,160 you know those when they're when our own time it's like a bunch of cats running 99 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:36,100 around you're hurting cats and you can't can't keep them all together but when it 100 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:43,680 come time to go to work they work like one one body and we got the job done and 101 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:50,240 it was an awesome experience and I think every one of the guys on the team you 102 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:55,240 know that were on the team they changed their life forever you know and I 103 00:10:55,240 --> 00:11:00,520 encourage you if you ever get an opportunity even if you don't like I did 104 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:07,320 the first time I drug my feet the first time and you can't stop me anymore you 105 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:13,360 know because you just see what God is doing and in our normal lives we don't 106 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,000 give him the credit for what he's doing and you need I just encourage everybody 107 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:22,800 to open your eyes and see what's really happening see how God is working in your 108 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:30,280 life every second of the day and just surrender to that and I encourage again 109 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:37,040 if they ever get a chance to go or do or even support because that's even part of 110 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:43,000 it you know that's the important part but just get get involved know what 111 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:47,000 God's doing and it'll change your life 112 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:55,880 thanks for the heads up on this one so I want to thank Scottie for for putting 113 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:59,560 the whole team together or just giving us the opportunity to get out there and 114 00:11:59,560 --> 00:12:04,640 do something like this and the more I walk with God the more I realize that 115 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:09,840 it's really about God's timing and and God's timing for Daniel to do his 116 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:13,800 mission and then our mission to get there and I'm going to speak to two 117 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:18,240 things that that kind of happened in that realm one is that when we we got 118 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:23,120 there the water tank was not able to house the girls and so they could have 119 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:29,520 showers and it took a team of us to get this 2,000 gallon water tank up and over 120 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:32,400 this hill I don't know if anybody has seen the video but it was literally 121 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,320 across the pasture and up this massive hill so they could have water so God's 122 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:43,520 timing for us to get there and to do that for them was just amazing the other 123 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:48,800 thing that I I just was amazed by and and and completely touched by was when 124 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:53,320 you watch Daniel with these kids and you just you look in some of their eyes and 125 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:57,000 you know that they've been through things that you you can't even imagine 126 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:05,520 some of us and to watch them walk by him in their common area and to hug him and 127 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:12,500 grab his leg and hold his hand and to have a love in them after what they've 128 00:13:12,500 --> 00:13:18,440 been through reminds me that God loves us and and the the enduring love that he 129 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:22,000 shares with us and the enduring love that he puts in us to overcome 130 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:28,160 everything in our lives to get better to be better to to know him and and just his 131 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:33,440 ever-ending blessings that he pours out on us every day so to mimic what Stan 132 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,480 said just you know every day you know if you look for it you're gonna see it and 133 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:42,480 and you can overcome everything and these children really have by loving 134 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:46,380 Daniel and and and holding on to him it was just it was a blessing for me to see 135 00:13:46,380 --> 00:13:50,020 it's it was the most beautiful thing I think I've ever seen so that's all I 136 00:13:50,020 --> 00:13:52,420 have to say 137 00:13:52,420 --> 00:13:59,180 I think my biggest takeaway from the whole trip was hold your babies close 138 00:13:59,180 --> 00:14:05,520 yeah you know there's a hundred little ones there that never got a real mom and 139 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,440 dad to tell them that they love them again they were they were passed off by 140 00:14:09,440 --> 00:14:12,360 the people that were supposed to care about them and protect them the most 141 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,920 in their world and then we come home and have Easter Sunday with our families and 142 00:14:16,920 --> 00:14:26,800 I spent most of my day crying my nine-year-old yeah I love you guys 143 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:33,280 thanks you guys we're gonna we're gonna and then you guys if you want still the 144 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:38,000 mic from me can but we're gonna we're gonna show just a few there's a couple 145 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:45,300 video clips and then some still shots Stan and Sandy would not shut up to the 146 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:53,720 Lord about those those what would we call them ricochets or those the divine 147 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:59,700 appointments and we so we get a layover in Phoenix and here's this woman she 148 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:04,920 pops off says the Lord's name in vain and what'd you say to her Wayne God's 149 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:10,040 who brought us here and it's so convicted her heart she was she was a 150 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:15,080 believer and she was just kind of running amok and so we gather around and 151 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:22,360 prayed for her and and then the next slide would be Oh 152 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:30,600 Sandy Oh what I can't oh the shoes oh that was so much fun I think they shared 153 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:36,320 on Sunday about the shoes but all the little children and I think we had 28 154 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:43,120 boys and 25 girls total and what we did was we had their feet print had drawn it 155 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,360 out you know how you when you were younger how you draw your handprint on 156 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,120 it they did the footprint the same way and they brought we brought him to the 157 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:53,600 store and the guy at the counter was so awesome because every single one of them 158 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:57,960 yeah Alejandro he was so awesome because he took every single one of them we cut 159 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:01,480 them all out he put them on one of those foot measuring whatever those things are 160 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,560 called but he measured each one so that we got them each a half a size bigger he 161 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:09,280 wrote their names and then the girl that was helping us also put him in a box put 162 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,080 a little tag on each one with their name so the kids got each got a new pair of 163 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,840 shoes so that was awesome and the two girls that you see in this picture here 164 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:23,240 are workers with the children and they were looking at shoes and we looked at 165 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:28,880 theirs yeah you saw our shoes yeah you need shoes so at the time it was buy one 166 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:33,100 get one half off so they both ended up with two new pairs of shoes and it was a 167 00:16:33,100 --> 00:16:38,560 blessing that was a lot of fun that was a lot of fun yeah and those two had left 168 00:16:38,560 --> 00:16:43,520 Argentina to come be a part of Daniel's team okay do we have another slide oh 169 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:51,420 here's our here's our team pushing the the tank up the hill the grass is a 170 00:16:51,420 --> 00:16:56,280 wildest stuff you ever saw I stepped onto the grass and I disappeared I fell 171 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:01,720 and I I just kept falling and I'm just going what are there snakes down there I 172 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:06,860 but it was it was it's amazing this would be a cow man's dream the grass in 173 00:17:06,860 --> 00:17:11,920 this country is is amazing so that was us we got it up on the hill next slide I 174 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:18,780 think is the tank set in place we got it up and and set in place I think is there 175 00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:24,760 another oh no no I had to take that because you can't see him but there's a 176 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:31,800 couple Bremer cows so it's it's cow country I mean the hills had had cattle 177 00:17:31,800 --> 00:17:36,280 on them and and was pretty cool and that's the compound you could see in the 178 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:40,720 background oh there's the cattle sorry that was the the last slide was the 179 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:44,680 compound where the two girls the all the girls with their babies are their 180 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:51,180 septic system was overloaded really two really nice facilities but and then they 181 00:17:51,180 --> 00:17:56,900 tried running their dryers and fried a service line coming into the into the 182 00:17:56,900 --> 00:18:02,300 complex so they've got a lot of work to do I actually heard from Pastor Daniel 183 00:18:02,300 --> 00:18:07,660 this morning and the inspection did come they've got a couple adjustments they 184 00:18:07,660 --> 00:18:11,100 have to do but it sounds like they're gonna have a favor with the with the 185 00:18:11,100 --> 00:18:17,280 city and get their school up and going so we're excited about that and then oh 186 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:23,820 yeah well they took us out to dinner and and I got on a on a bucking machine but 187 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:27,740 they didn't turn it on praise the Lord it would have broke it would have broke 188 00:18:27,740 --> 00:18:35,400 every bone in my body and then here's here's the the facility when we first 189 00:18:35,400 --> 00:18:40,540 got there so they had some drywall done and the other side wasn't done so 190 00:18:40,540 --> 00:18:50,100 Wayne and Josh and myself and James and Jake Tillo we slung a lot of drywall mud 191 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:57,480 and I got it all over everything actually so yeah oh I had to see that 192 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:06,020 that's a shower electric wires in the shower how safe is that but that's the 193 00:19:06,020 --> 00:19:10,420 hot water heater so it's low pressure and the lower the pressure the hotter 194 00:19:10,420 --> 00:19:14,620 the water yeah was that one that was with me and me and Wayne's in our in our 195 00:19:14,620 --> 00:19:21,340 in our bunkhouse yeah black tape good they don't even have wire nuts there but 196 00:19:21,340 --> 00:19:27,020 and this is Lauren Lauren she was she's a professional soccer player she was in 197 00:19:27,020 --> 00:19:31,560 Costa Rica on a professional team got hooked up with Pastor Daniel and wanted 198 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,900 to be a part of it and he's had so much of a turnover because people are so 199 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:40,300 overwhelmed with the needs of these kids that he made her go home she didn't want 200 00:19:40,300 --> 00:19:44,460 to she wanted to stay he said he said no I want you to know that God's called you 201 00:19:44,460 --> 00:19:47,780 here so you go home for two months after you've prayed for two months if you want 202 00:19:47,780 --> 00:19:51,020 to come back then you can and she's been there for the last three years she is a 203 00:19:51,020 --> 00:19:56,060 she is a spiritual stud muffin this girl 204 00:19:56,060 --> 00:20:05,800 and there's the shoes again Payless was so glad to see us coming and there's the 205 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,940 girls when they went forward with their babies they're all holding their babies 206 00:20:08,940 --> 00:20:15,320 and and that's Pastor Daniel and then his his twin sons and Lauren lead 207 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,620 worship and then his little girl you can't see her she's 13 but she also 208 00:20:18,620 --> 00:20:23,900 sings and leads worship there it's quite the family affair but over a hundred 209 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,420 kids they have this is a little starfish home and these are some of the kids that 210 00:20:28,420 --> 00:20:34,660 are there there's 48 kids there and and if you want to see some cool videos get 211 00:20:34,660 --> 00:20:38,200 with Wayne he's got some videos of them doing exercises and stuff in the morning 212 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,600 but it's called little starfish and there's a story with that so this this 213 00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:47,700 this man was on a beach and there were millions of starfish and and Pastor 214 00:20:47,700 --> 00:20:50,760 Daniel heard this story that's why he calls it little starfish there were 215 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,720 millions of starfish on the beach and this little boy was out on the beach and 216 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,800 he would run and grab a starfish and throw it back in the ocean they were all 217 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,780 dying and and so a man was walking down the beach and he asked a little boy what 218 00:21:02,780 --> 00:21:07,340 are you doing he goes I'm I'm saving these starfish he said there's millions 219 00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:12,020 of them there's millions of these starfish how do you think you can sit he 220 00:21:12,020 --> 00:21:16,000 says can you make any kind of a difference or it doesn't even matter and 221 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:19,920 he grabbed one and he wrote went over to the surf and he threw those starfish he 222 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:27,320 says it mattered for that one right and that so impacted Daniel that that he 223 00:21:27,320 --> 00:21:31,340 named the house where the kids are this is isn't where the girls with their 224 00:21:31,340 --> 00:21:36,560 babies are but where the kids are they call it little starfish and then what 225 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:41,540 else we got oh yeah here's here's here's the crew we're gonna we're slinging mud 226 00:21:41,540 --> 00:21:48,640 right now everybody is doing some mud and and you can go go to the next slide 227 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:58,760 too and this is this is at the end this is the afterwards so we got it painted 228 00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:05,340 we slung a lot of paint we had to scrape a lot of paint off the floor Susan and 229 00:22:05,340 --> 00:22:12,580 sandy painted the backdrop on the stage black and it just it looked really cool 230 00:22:12,580 --> 00:22:17,380 the sides there are gray and the backdrops black and and there's the 231 00:22:17,380 --> 00:22:31,180 stage oh yeah on me yeah well I'm a knucklehead yeah but incredible facility 232 00:22:31,180 --> 00:22:38,160 they they now have they have nine classrooms seven of them are functional 233 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:43,760 and so that was the whole herd there we were cleaning everything up before we 234 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:51,140 left to come home and it was it just looked cool the the rafters right there 235 00:22:51,140 --> 00:22:56,260 are metal and the main wire the main service wire was wrapped around the 236 00:22:56,260 --> 00:23:02,940 metal Raptor going and and then Chris and and Stan got it put in a conduit and 237 00:23:02,940 --> 00:23:08,660 and and brought it up to code but it was it's a lot of their stuff there's a 238 00:23:08,660 --> 00:23:15,540 little sketchy now the drive the driving and poked in excuse me in Costa Rica 239 00:23:15,540 --> 00:23:22,220 maybe downtown Pocatello too but but the driving everybody in Costa Rica drives 240 00:23:22,220 --> 00:23:27,860 just like I do and I mean I was in my element and it's amazing I haven't got 241 00:23:27,860 --> 00:23:33,180 five or six tickets since I've been home but but what's it do we got any more 242 00:23:33,180 --> 00:23:38,980 slides is that it that's all of them okay all right well give these guys 243 00:23:38,980 --> 00:23:48,220 what's up oh yeah so these guys are rock stars Stan and and Chris totally redid 244 00:23:48,220 --> 00:23:53,580 the electrical James totally did the the toilets all the toilets were working 245 00:23:53,580 --> 00:23:57,740 women and actually there's lights in the boys bathroom when we left and and then 246 00:23:57,740 --> 00:24:05,660 Josh and and Tyler and James and I were or others were were we were mud packers 247 00:24:05,660 --> 00:24:12,780 and painters and we did all kinds I even got shocked putting in lights so but but 248 00:24:12,780 --> 00:24:16,100 what motivated Daniel to start this whole thing because this is only this 249 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:20,580 ministry is only it's not even I don't even so totally a year old yet but what 250 00:24:20,580 --> 00:24:24,060 happened was somebody could approached him and tried to sell him a set of 251 00:24:24,060 --> 00:24:30,740 six-year-old twin girls for 50 bucks and Daniels and he's in Costa Rica he's he's 252 00:24:30,740 --> 00:24:35,940 Argentine but he's been in Costa Rica for 20 years his wife marine is from our 253 00:24:35,940 --> 00:24:43,020 Costa Rica and he thought okay don't sell kids kids aren't for sale he's and 254 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:49,020 so he kind of blew it off and then he had somebody from the the government 255 00:24:49,020 --> 00:24:56,060 there tell him said no this is going on all the time and so looking back he his 256 00:24:56,060 --> 00:25:01,140 heart was broken because he said if it happened today I'd buy him right I'd buy 257 00:25:01,140 --> 00:25:05,700 him and I put them in a safe place and I would raise them and that's what he's 258 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:10,660 doing with a hundred kids he's he's raising these kids and he feels like he 259 00:25:10,660 --> 00:25:17,940 has to you know have to has has to have them stay with him until until they get 260 00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:20,820 through college so that they can self-sustain because actually the girls 261 00:25:20,820 --> 00:25:27,700 with the babies CPS was actually pimping them out and then giving them a kickback 262 00:25:27,700 --> 00:25:33,900 and and so just actually they're just programming them for this lifestyle and 263 00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:38,020 so anyway it's just up it's an incredible thing so I'm gonna have these 264 00:25:38,020 --> 00:25:41,620 guys sit down and I'm gonna I'm gonna share with you a little bit more and 265 00:25:41,620 --> 00:25:54,580 then uh it am I on can you hear me okay so I think I've said it from this pulpit 266 00:25:54,580 --> 00:25:58,380 before but where you are in the scriptures is where you're at in life 267 00:25:58,380 --> 00:26:04,780 and it was it was fascinating that as we would sit down and we would do devotions 268 00:26:04,780 --> 00:26:09,420 it was amazing how the Lord was ministering right to what was going on 269 00:26:09,420 --> 00:26:14,020 when we got there it was total chaos there was an emergency they couldn't 270 00:26:14,020 --> 00:26:17,620 come get us from the airport with the bus and so we're sitting there waiting 271 00:26:17,620 --> 00:26:21,980 with all of our luggage and totes and everything and and we didn't even see 272 00:26:21,980 --> 00:26:27,940 Pastor Daniel the first day and so it totally went different than we expected 273 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:32,900 is that what happened to you life is just goes different than what you expect 274 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:44,420 right and and in one of our devotions it was it was in Luke chapter 22 where 275 00:26:44,420 --> 00:26:49,820 excuse me Luke chapter 8 verse 22 where it says now it happened on a certain day 276 00:26:49,820 --> 00:26:53,500 that he got into the boat with his disciples and he said to them let us 277 00:26:53,500 --> 00:26:59,260 cross over to the other side of the lake and they launched out but as they sailed 278 00:26:59,260 --> 00:27:04,300 he fell asleep and a windstorm came down on the lake and they were filled with 279 00:27:04,300 --> 00:27:10,060 water and were in jeopardy and they came to him and awoke him saying master master 280 00:27:10,060 --> 00:27:13,980 we are perishing and then he rose and he rebuked the wind and the raging of the 281 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:20,380 water and they ceased and there was a calm and he said to them where is your 282 00:27:20,380 --> 00:27:28,060 faith right where is your faith do we listen to God really right because fear 283 00:27:28,060 --> 00:27:32,460 crept in and pushed all of their faith out of the way and so when we're in 284 00:27:32,460 --> 00:27:36,020 Costa Rica and things I'm going think this isn't the way it was supposed to be 285 00:27:36,020 --> 00:27:45,700 right and I'm wondering what Jesus's tone was with his disciples here what he 286 00:27:45,700 --> 00:27:50,540 rebukes the wind and the sea they come to him and saying we're perishing and he 287 00:27:50,540 --> 00:27:56,220 says where's your faith so was Jesus encouraging these guys when the storm 288 00:27:56,220 --> 00:28:00,180 came and they thought they were gonna die to put on a smile and keep rowing 289 00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:07,020 we're going to the other side of the lake right put on a smile keep rowing 290 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:10,900 we're going to the other side of the lake why because that's what Jesus said 291 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:17,560 you know and so Jesus didn't give us the details when we went down there right I 292 00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:22,540 thought I had some details with Daniel that didn't didn't work out but that's 293 00:28:22,540 --> 00:28:28,540 okay because my motto okay you guys want to know my motto my motto is blessed are 294 00:28:28,540 --> 00:28:34,460 the flexible for they shall not be broken right blessed are the flexible 295 00:28:34,460 --> 00:28:38,260 for they shall not be broken and so we were just rolling with it right we were 296 00:28:38,260 --> 00:28:44,260 working hard we were rolling with it and another and then I like like Josh said 297 00:28:44,260 --> 00:28:48,100 we were I was just amazed at how this team how everybody was so gifted in 298 00:28:48,100 --> 00:28:52,940 certain areas you know some of us were just gifted with the gift of help we 299 00:28:52,940 --> 00:28:57,700 were just helping each each other but but with Chris Chris's expertise on the 300 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:04,000 electrical we were one of our readings was in Exodus chapter 35 verse 31 where 301 00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:09,420 it says God calls three men in that passage and he has filled him with the 302 00:29:09,420 --> 00:29:13,980 Spirit of God and wisdom and understanding and knowledge and all 303 00:29:13,980 --> 00:29:19,620 manner of workmanship and I saw it right in front of my eyes right these guys 304 00:29:19,620 --> 00:29:24,500 they were just gifted I mean James tearing into you know James is set in 305 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:29,780 the toilet and he set in the toilet and he drills to start drills down into the 306 00:29:29,780 --> 00:29:34,260 concrete put a little anchor bolt down for the toilet and he goes up a sprung 307 00:29:34,260 --> 00:29:40,700 a leak and the the water line was this far under the concrete right next to the 308 00:29:40,700 --> 00:29:48,940 hole going down into the drain we saw a lot of stuff in Costa Rica right you 309 00:29:48,940 --> 00:29:54,460 couldn't do that in America so so I think if we had if we had ten bucks for 310 00:29:54,460 --> 00:30:00,620 every time we ran to the the supply store right we we could build our own 311 00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:07,420 building and then the last one was 312 00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:16,420 as when you look back and you see the Lord's hand and in in Exodus 39 this was 313 00:30:16,420 --> 00:30:21,840 the last one it says thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting 314 00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:24,940 was finished and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had 315 00:30:24,940 --> 00:30:29,380 commanded Moses and so they did and that was that was just kind of our parting 316 00:30:29,380 --> 00:30:32,900 verse as we were getting ready to come home that we had done what God had 317 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:37,700 called us to do I you know honestly I don't I don't know that I'll go back I 318 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:45,060 have a sense that I might but it is just anyone that has an opportunity like 319 00:30:45,060 --> 00:30:49,260 these guys just told you to step out in faith and go to something that's 320 00:30:49,260 --> 00:30:55,620 uncomfortable to you when you see this you you realize that just the reality of 321 00:30:55,620 --> 00:31:03,540 what America has compared to the rest of the world right it's just it's absolutely 322 00:31:03,540 --> 00:31:10,860 amazing and and God was doing a work I think in all of our hearts and to see 323 00:31:10,860 --> 00:31:15,380 these kids being their lives are being changed I sat and talked to two 324 00:31:15,380 --> 00:31:19,340 fifteen-year-old mothers with their babies and they all nurse they all 325 00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:23,380 nurse their babies I never saw a bottle I don't think and they all nurse their 326 00:31:23,380 --> 00:31:29,020 babies and they're overwhelmed they still cognitively do not get it they'll 327 00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:32,980 take her two or three month old and set them on a chair it's like no no no don't 328 00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:37,180 do that right cuz I mean they'll just do a header right off the chair and it's 329 00:31:37,180 --> 00:31:43,860 just they just don't they don't know and and so it was it was definitely an 330 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:51,020 experience that you know that does cause you to cherish like Wayne said cherish 331 00:31:51,020 --> 00:31:55,460 your your family and we're not gonna get into it because we're about out of time 332 00:31:55,460 --> 00:32:02,260 but Genesis chapter 34 the Lord is not mentioned in this chapter in the Bible 333 00:32:02,260 --> 00:32:10,780 right and it's because Jacob took a u-turn and he went to Sukkot or Shechem 334 00:32:10,780 --> 00:32:15,420 where he should have went to Bethel Bethel's the house of God right the 335 00:32:15,420 --> 00:32:19,940 reason we come to the house of God so that we might hear we might hear stories 336 00:32:19,940 --> 00:32:25,820 like this I call them God stories every kid needs to hear a God story do you got 337 00:32:25,820 --> 00:32:29,660 God stories that you share with your kids I remember sitting at my grandpa and 338 00:32:29,660 --> 00:32:34,620 my dad's feet and hearing them talk about the Lord you know even my dad was 339 00:32:34,620 --> 00:32:42,060 a was was lost and backslidden and yet I heard all these God stories and I know 340 00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:47,740 that they had an impact on me as I was growing up not to walk away from the 341 00:32:47,740 --> 00:32:52,940 Lord or stay away from the Lord but to come to that place where you can meet 342 00:32:52,940 --> 00:32:58,220 with others that have God stories and you can compare those stories of how God 343 00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:04,140 works in our lives but we have to we have to create that opportunity right we 344 00:33:04,140 --> 00:33:08,040 have to create that opportunity for our kids our grandkids I want my grandbabies 345 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:13,780 to know about Jesus do you right and so so bring him to church so talk to them 346 00:33:13,780 --> 00:33:19,340 about those God stories how God's intervened in your life or how God's 347 00:33:19,340 --> 00:33:29,500 intervened in your family and and and keep the fire burning keep the torch 348 00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:35,260 ready to pass to that next generation because this is amazing how fast we grow 349 00:33:35,260 --> 00:33:39,940 old and our kids grow up and now said you got grandkids you're just going like 350 00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:46,660 how did this happen and it's so important to keep reminding yourself and 351 00:33:46,660 --> 00:33:52,020 them of the things that God has done in your life Jacob had had this encounter 352 00:33:52,020 --> 00:33:57,620 there at Bethel with with the Lord and and saw the ladder right we learned that 353 00:33:57,620 --> 00:34:02,700 that was that ladder is Jesus that the angel of God's ascended and descended on 354 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:07,660 this ladder and so that's where he should have went back that's where God 355 00:34:07,660 --> 00:34:12,220 was calling him back to and he took a detour are you on a detour right now 356 00:34:12,220 --> 00:34:17,940 some of you might be on a detour you're not where you should be in my Christian 357 00:34:17,940 --> 00:34:22,700 life the most miserable I ever was is when I was backslidden when I was in a 358 00:34:22,700 --> 00:34:27,820 place where I knew I should have been in a certain place and I wasn't there and I 359 00:34:27,820 --> 00:34:32,540 knew that God wanted me there and I was I was bowing my neck and I was being a 360 00:34:32,540 --> 00:34:39,780 rebel and I was hardening my heart and you know there's a reason why the Bible 361 00:34:39,780 --> 00:34:44,660 says humble yourself in the sight of the Lord and he will lift you up because if 362 00:34:44,660 --> 00:34:51,340 he has to humble you I just want you to know he's really good at it right and he 363 00:34:51,340 --> 00:34:59,340 knows how to do it he knows how to humble you and and I would I would take 364 00:34:59,340 --> 00:35:03,540 the humbling of myself rather than the humbling of the Lord because sometimes 365 00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:09,340 it takes much more harsh means but if we'll just bow our knee and say here am 366 00:35:09,340 --> 00:35:14,420 I Lord forgive me and and and show me where to walk and how to walk that he'll 367 00:35:14,420 --> 00:35:20,380 be faithful to do that and so I'm gonna encourage you all of you pray for this 368 00:35:20,380 --> 00:35:24,500 little starfish house and and for Pastor Daniel in that ministry he's got down 369 00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:28,860 there it's gonna do nothing but grow we saw we saw his church grow to almost 370 00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:34,420 double from the time my wife and I was there in January to now it's it actually 371 00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:39,820 grew it more than doubled and and it was just from within and so as these girls 372 00:35:39,820 --> 00:35:44,780 have had all these babies and and these these these kids grow up I mean he's not 373 00:35:44,780 --> 00:35:48,620 even have to have any new people come because there's that repopulating the 374 00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:54,780 church as they go and so but but pray for them this is a this is an incredible 375 00:35:54,780 --> 00:35:59,060 ministry what's really sad is like those all those millions of starfish on the on 376 00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:03,060 the beach it's right here in our own country fact it might be right here in 377 00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:07,420 this church that some of this stuff is happening they say one in three girls 378 00:36:07,420 --> 00:36:15,460 have been sexually you know exploited some want some way shape or form one out 379 00:36:15,460 --> 00:36:23,740 of three one out of four boys that's crazy and yet God has come to redeem us 380 00:36:23,740 --> 00:36:29,020 from all that I look back at my own life and and and my my my own perversion and 381 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:35,020 how God has has changed the way I look at things and the way I the way I live 382 00:36:35,020 --> 00:36:38,540 my life and that's what Jesus is all about if you're just living in the flesh 383 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:44,380 right some of this stuff is not very far from you look at our little are the the 384 00:36:44,380 --> 00:36:48,180 all over the news right now with the what's this P Diddy or whatever his name 385 00:36:48,180 --> 00:36:55,340 is right it's just it's it's just too common it's all too common and and God 386 00:36:55,340 --> 00:36:59,980 wants to redeem it and he wants to start with you and me let's pray Lord we come 387 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:04,500 to before you this this afternoon Lord just thanking you that you are in this 388 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:13,780 this place where you redeem lives Lord and you you bring us to a place of 389 00:37:13,780 --> 00:37:19,380 newness the newness of life Lord new creatures created in Christ Jesus Lord 390 00:37:19,380 --> 00:37:25,940 you tell us Lord that we're created for good works because of what you've done 391 00:37:25,940 --> 00:37:30,620 for us Lord and thank you that you've forgiven me of all the evil works that I 392 00:37:30,620 --> 00:37:37,220 did in my life and and Lord you give us a brand new start and your your mercy 393 00:37:37,220 --> 00:37:41,980 and your joy is it's new every morning Lord so I just pray that we would find 394 00:37:41,980 --> 00:37:48,220 ourselves Lord in in that place of surrendering to what you have for us 395 00:37:48,220 --> 00:37:54,740 Lord that you would direct our steps Lord and these these lives that are being 396 00:37:54,740 --> 00:38:00,700 touched there in Costa Rica Lord you're you're raising up future missionaries 397 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:04,860 and future doctors and teachers and you're doing a work in their lives Lord 398 00:38:04,860 --> 00:38:09,340 and so we just we worship you thank you for all these encounters that we have 399 00:38:09,340 --> 00:38:14,260 Lord I lift up all these people that that we ran into Lord whether it's Alex 400 00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:19,220 that thought he was deemed possessed or pastor Luis or Olga and Tristan and 401 00:38:19,220 --> 00:38:22,540 Ronnie Lord all these all these people all those divine appointments that we 402 00:38:22,540 --> 00:38:27,220 had Lord I pray that you would pour out your spirit on these people and draw them 403 00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:31,660 to yourself Lord as you draw us to yourself today in Jesus name amen 404 00:38:31,660 --> 00:38:35,340 alrighty let's let's stand and worship