2015 February | Would you Go Beyond?

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Saturday, February 28th- Central Park Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It is summer here, which is when most citizens go on vacation so all the parks and recreational areas are very busy. There is a really big park, (like central park) down town and the directer of the park asked us to perform there every weekend and holidays like mardi gras weekend which was four days straight. He reserved a spot for us and very large crowds gathered each night. Families come from all the surrounding regions to enjoy this park, as many are very poor they are grateful and excited to enjoy our show free of charge. The kids…

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Thursday, February 26 201502/26/15 No Response

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Thursday, February 26th – Juvenile detention center and Maximum Security Prison, Argentina.

There were a number of prisons in a city a long ways from the center that they wanted us to visit. They had planned for us to go up and back three days but since gas is expensive and we also had other events scheduled, we decided to combine these visits into one trip up there and one day, one looonnngggg day. We first went to a prison for young adults, all under 21 and spent a while with them. They loved participating in Capoeira and also learning a little Tae Kwon Do which we use to teach about the…

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Monday, February 23 201502/23/15 No Response

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Monday, February 23rd – Women’s Prison Argentina

God gave us great favor with the director of all the federal prisons and he organized multiple performances in many prisons. We made a large screen which we use to project a video on behind us (remember a while ago I told you that we were working on a video with footage of the national parks, time lapse photography with the message of the “Door” and another place). We use this both as a backdrop to our performances and as a teaching tool to explain many things in a visual way. We were able to use this at most all…

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Saturday, February 14 201502/14/15 No Response

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Saturday, February 14th 2015 – Down Town Montevideo.

We have been having an effect with the crowds down town in the city center and on the boardwalks and beaches of Montevideo. Even after a long day in the prisons, we headed to the city center to perform at a busy square. I don’t know how my parents do it some times, even when they are absolutely exhausted and drained from the sun they still find more to give. There are many tourists from other countries as well as the locals and we try to put a seed in their heart and show them that there is something beyond just surviving,…

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Friday, February 13 201502/13/15 No Response

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Friday February 13th – Largest Prison in Uruguay

We were at the hospital late into the night and had had a performance scheduled at a prison early the next morning. We talked about canceling it since we were all really tired, worn down and would have to try to adjust all our dances and theater acts since David could not participate. But in the end we decided to go ahead with it knowing the Father would meet us with His grace and David said there was no way we were canceling on his account. This prison is the largest and worse in Uruguay and we did a number of presentations to reach…

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Thursday, February 12 201502/12/15 No Response

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Thursday, February 12th 2015 – My brother tore his achilles tendon.

Our next prison was large, more like a little city. We were part way into our presentation and were performing the Brazilian art of capoeira when my youngest brother, David, suddenly pulled up and started limping off. When I saw his face I knew something was very wrong because he would not stop for any type of miner injury. We iced his leg and got him in a chair while we finished sharing with the prisoners and said goodbye. They sent us to a hospital down town and we had to wait a while in the emergency room. David had torn his achilles tendon…

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Tuesday, February 10 201502/10/15 No Response

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Tuesday February 10th – Women’s Prison in Montevideo

I had been in contact with the office that runs the prisons in Montevideo and they organized four prisons in one week. Our first prison was a women’s prison, way out in the middle of no where. It is actually an abandoned hospital and looked like a condemned building. Seriously, it was like something you would see in a World War2 movie after a town was bombed. Because they get practically NO visitors or events here, the guards at the main gate had no idea how to go about letting us in. First they sent us to the back of the prison where…

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Thursday, February 5 201502/05/15 No Response

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Thursday February 5th 2015 – Arriving in Uruguay

We were already tired from a long day of traveling when we arrived at Miami International Airport with a rented van FULL of boxes and luggage, but since we had a late flight, our day was just starting! It is actually a long story, but God gave us great favor with a manager over baggage who really cared about the work that we are doing and figured things out so we could check through a lot of extra bags at no extra cost. It was amazing! God is so good. We were able to bring everything that different companies had…

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