Hi There! It’s your newest resident Campo Alegria Blogger here, Lily Plourde, reporting live from Nicaragua! If you’re a frequent follower of this blog you may remember my post from this past January when I spent an incredible week at camp that ultimately paved the way for my 6 month adventure here. Before I start to frequently blog, I thought I’d share a little bit about myself so you have an idea who this stranger is writing all about life at Campo.
It all started back in 1998 as a thirteen year old camper at Chop Point summer camp in Woolwich, Maine; truly the best experience of my teenage life. It was at Chop Point where I developed a sense of independence, made my first friends away from home and best of all, got to go on sailing trips with Peter Willard. If it weren’t for those sailing trips, I don’t think I’d be sitting here in Nicaragua today. I kept in touch with Peter long after my last year at camp in 2001 and when I needed a break from my mundane corporate life in marketing, I found myself emailing with Peter and booking a flight to Nicaragua for a week. ...and the rest is history.
After selling the entire contents of my 3-story town house in Harrisburg, PA, I packed my life into my Honda Fit, drove to New England to spend a few days with my family and flew to Nicaragua to be a volunteer at camp on June 15th. I left my life in Harrisburg because I felt purposeless. Sure, there were plenty of opportunities to give and serve, but for whatever reason my heart wasn’t in it. I’ve always admired the stories in the Bible where people dropped everything in their lives to follow Jesus, and I’ve always wondered how my faith would change if I were to do the same. So that’s what I did. To be honest I have no idea if this is what God wants me to do, but I definitely know that here at Campo Alegria I get to serve children and a community that truly needs the love, energy, time and patience that God has so graciously given me to share with others.
In the next 6 months I will be sharing my observations about Nicaraguan life and this new journey of faith I’m about to embark upon. I hope you’ll join me (virtually!) on these new adventures as I search for purpose through serving my community here in Nicaragua. Stay tuned, there’s lots more to come!!
It all started back in 1998 as a thirteen year old camper at Chop Point summer camp in Woolwich, Maine; truly the best experience of my teenage life. It was at Chop Point where I developed a sense of independence, made my first friends away from home and best of all, got to go on sailing trips with Peter Willard. If it weren’t for those sailing trips, I don’t think I’d be sitting here in Nicaragua today. I kept in touch with Peter long after my last year at camp in 2001 and when I needed a break from my mundane corporate life in marketing, I found myself emailing with Peter and booking a flight to Nicaragua for a week. ...and the rest is history.
After selling the entire contents of my 3-story town house in Harrisburg, PA, I packed my life into my Honda Fit, drove to New England to spend a few days with my family and flew to Nicaragua to be a volunteer at camp on June 15th. I left my life in Harrisburg because I felt purposeless. Sure, there were plenty of opportunities to give and serve, but for whatever reason my heart wasn’t in it. I’ve always admired the stories in the Bible where people dropped everything in their lives to follow Jesus, and I’ve always wondered how my faith would change if I were to do the same. So that’s what I did. To be honest I have no idea if this is what God wants me to do, but I definitely know that here at Campo Alegria I get to serve children and a community that truly needs the love, energy, time and patience that God has so graciously given me to share with others.
In the next 6 months I will be sharing my observations about Nicaraguan life and this new journey of faith I’m about to embark upon. I hope you’ll join me (virtually!) on these new adventures as I search for purpose through serving my community here in Nicaragua. Stay tuned, there’s lots more to come!!
No comments:
Post a Comment