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Healing in Costa Rica

July 16, 2018
Adventures
Our Stories

Written by Ashley Mendoza, Beauty for Ashes Short-Term trip: Costa Rica, June 2018 It has been a long while since I have done anything to live out my deepest God-given dreams. I signed up for a Beauty for Ashes trip over a year ago because my heart is for women, and seeing them live out their redeemed lives in Christ. I landed in Costa Rica a few weeks ago to meet up with women that I did not know and to serve at a ministry that was just as unknown. I fully expected to serve women, see tears, and hear stories of freedom. What I did not expect was a God who intentionally set me on a path to...

Transformation at Casa Transforma

July 16, 2018
Adventures
Retreats

Written by Barb Dunn, Beauty for Ashes Short-Term trip: Costa Rica, June 2018 A team of 12 ladies flew to San Jose, Costa Rica in June to hold several Beauty for Ashes retreats. We stayed at the Casa Transforma House, which is an awesome ministry that not only prepares women with work skills, but is a safe place for women to share “their stories” of heartache and pain. It was an honor and a joy to be used by God to listen and pray over several beautiful women. We heard many painful stories, but God was faithful to heal hurting hearts with His love. He gave...

I Will Restore Your Fortunes

May 17, 2018
Adventures
Retreats

The following blog was written by Charlene Jean-Pierre after our Gainesville Short-Term Trip, May 2nd-6th. You can read her personal blog HERE. We would love to see you on one of our trips this year! Find out more at adventures.org/beautyforashes “‘I will gather you…and bring you home again.’ (Zephaniah 3:20 NLT) ‘I will restore your fortunes.’ (Jeremiah 29:14, Zephaniah 3:20, NLT) These were some of the phrases that the Holy Spirit gently whispered to me the morning after I arrived in Gainesville, GA over a week ago for a...

Story Portraits: The Barista with Tattoos and Fortitude

The following is a blog written by Liz Bacon, a current Squad Leader on the World Race Expedition Route that launched in January. This story comes from her time on the field as a World Racer in October 2017. You can follow her journey at elizabethbacon.theworldrace.org For more information about Beauty for Ashes visit adventures.org/beautyforashes The Lord sent me on a divine scavenger hunt, and I adore the treasure I found— a barista with tattoos and fortitude. Fortitude (n): strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with...

For YOU With the Hurting Heart

April 25, 2017
Adventures
Our Stories

This post was written by World Racer, Paige Lindner. What’s written below is for you who has experienced a deep sense of loss. For you who has lost a loved one and are still mourning to this day. For you who has been broken-hearted by a significant other who made a lot of empty promises to you. For you who had a parent that walked away or loved you inadequately leaving you confused, hurt, and alone. For you who has just been burned by the ways of this world, head gaping wide you have no where else to...

Healing Wounds

This post was written by World Racer, Paige Lindner. As humans each of us keeps packing things into the soul and never take time to unpack them. If we don’t process, grieve, and heal successfully then more sin will come in the future and embed itself in the walls of our hearts. The Lord calls us to tangibly choose Him amidst the process of healing. It is not the Lord snapping His fingers and saying “you’re made better, child”- it’s a daily process to be changed into a better version of yourself in order to not revert back to the same things we once...

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