Why go on a short-term mission, or on a mission team? What purpose can two weeks in another country serve? How can we give enough to make it worthwhile with no language skills and limited cross-cultural experience? Is it just a glorified holiday? Or can God work through these short experien...
Extreme Walk is a formative 10 month cross-cultural church multiplication and discipleship experience. 10 months of stretching spiritually and emotionally as a person is taken out of their natural environment and placed in a world with different values, customs, and worldviews - not to mention d...
The last two months have seen a couple of things happen. Back in June, the eXtreme Walk team joined with Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) and people from the Seminary. Together we went to Montelibano to work with and along side people helping the displaced people out there. Colombia has the ...
As a family we are doing well, although life here is challenging. We know there is a real need for us here, and the needs to be filled are endless. The girls have really settled into the Ecuadorian swing of life, Anika (1yr) now speaks as much Spanish as English. While Maia (2 ½) is struggl...
| Kayleene Thorburn (Colombia eXtreme Walk) |
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Colombia has the third highest count per capita for displaced people in the world due to internal conflict. (Montelibano is about eight hours from Medellín and a lot warmer).
I was meant to work with a vet concerning the animals out there, but the vet didn't make it so I worked in construction. It was an international affair as on the construction team there were two Americans, one Canadian, one Swiss and a couple of guys from Colombia. There were also people from the U.K., Sweden and Korea. The team worked on two projects both church related. One was putting a roof on a church. And the other was putting a concrete floor into a church. To see the conditions that these people live in makes you thankful for what you've got, even the little things like clean fresh running water. After we returned to Medellín I moved out to Versalles where I will be for the remainder of my time in Colombia. For the past month, my main focus in Versalles has been prayer for my church planting team, the people they are discipling, and for the people here to be open to the gospel. Versalles is about an hour out of Medellín with a population of around 500 people.
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The last two months have seen a couple of things happen. Back in June, the eXtreme Walk team joined with Y.W.A.M (Youth With A Mission) and people from the Seminary. Together we went to Montelibano to work with and along side people helping the displaced people out there. 