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 beauty...

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...

          Welcome to Beauty for Ashes at Adventures in Missions… YOUR JOURNEY TO RESTORATION BEGINS HERE   ATLANTA, GEORGIA – JUNE 11-13, 2010   We are all carrying around our own set of emotional wounds and hurts from life. Perhaps they are wounds we received in childhood or maybe hurts we’ve picked up along the way – but we all have them!   God has given us some wonderful ways to be healed from these wounds – no matter how deep and big they may be. This is based on Isaiah 61 where we exchange our...