Hey everyone! Justice and Syd are here today to talk about the highlights of our day. We had a packed day today, but are thankful for each moment we had. We started off the morning with a nice, but challenging, body weight workout that consisted of using a deck of cards. The workout was 109 …
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Pavas Ballerz
Hi friends and family! Sorry this is a late blog post for yesterday, we promise to be better in the days to come. Our first full day in Costa Rica we spent the morning playing basketball with the locals at Pavas. A few moments that really stuck out to us during the morning were: In …
We made it to Santiago!
Hey everyone! We made it to Santiago! This is Brooklyn and Joe and we will take you through day 2 of our DR trip. We arrived and were settled at the GO Ministries Medical Center, bright and early, at 4am. Our team had breakfast and met Brett, who is our GO Ministries sports leader. For …
Hello from Costa Rica :)
Hello from Costa Rica! What a great Day ONE (travel day). It is about 12:15pm Michigan time… and about 10:15pm Costa time… Let’s just say we are all a bit tired from a big day of travel… but more importantly we are SO excited for the week to come ❤️. On this trip we have …
It is here!!
Hello family and friends, it is here! Welcome along to our 2024 seed Dominican Republic trip!! This is Ruby and Andrew and we are going to walk you through our first travel day. First bright and early we awoke and arrived to the one and only Devos parking lot to feast on some good ole …
SEED Summer 2024…Now Loading!
It’s coming! On Friday, May 24, we launch our first two SEED teams of the summer and we can’t wait to watch our student-athletes learn and grow. One team will travel to Costa Rica to partner in the on-going ministry of Push the Rock. Hope College student-athletes have been serving with this organization since 2017. …
Community
Hi everyone! This morning we started with a pretty traditional breakfast (eggs, oatmeal, yogurt, toast, cereal, coffee) then we met with some of the Poetice staff (shoutout Abby & John), we learned about the heart of Poetice and how / why they minister. We also had some cultural training, learning more about the culture of …
Almost home
A 4:15 am wakeup call shocked all of us, but seeing our leader John and fearless bus driver Javier brightened everything for today. We made it safely through Customs in Miami and then landed in Chicago. The bus is just through rush hour traffic and we have a couple of hours left until we make …
Day 3 (one day late)
To Batey Nueve We Go… This morning we started off by traveling to the local medical clinic which was just down the road. We learned that the site functioned as an urgent care for medical and dental purposes throughout the community we were staying at for the week. One unique aspect of this clinic is …
Arrived and doing well in Talamanca!
The team made it to Talamanca and are doing great! They have no internet but their Push The Rock leader, Nattie, was able to reach out to me to send a couple pictures and let me know they had safe travels and all is well. They’re still writing blog posts each day and will get …