Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy

We have arrived in Puerto Rico and our hotel. We are taking some time to settle in before we head to dinner. We are so excited to see what God has for us this week. 

We are enjoying the first service in 2025 with Sendero de la Cruz. It's a powerful message of letting go of the past and opening ourselves to the blessings that God has for us in 2025!

This morning we are at Iglesia Cristiana Sendero de La Cruz joining the congregation in their worship service. It’s a blessing being able to praise the Lord together as one despite the cultural and language differences. 

After a great service, we are at the Catño boardwalk. We are taking some time to enjoy the town as we do a prayer walk. 

After lunch we are now at the Cataño Boardwalk and we are praying for the surrounding community and the people. We met a few people along the way that not only asked for prayer, but also prayed for us. 

After the service in Humacao, we are eating hot dogs and hamburgers with the youth ministry. We are getting to know each other over an impromptu salsa class! I think we are getting the hang of it!

We are preparing 500 candy bags for the kids that will come on Saturday for the Three Kings Day activity at Sendero de la Cruz Humacao Campus Church. We are grateful to have the opportunity to help with that! 

After the morning wrapping gifts, we are now helping the church with projects. 

We have the opportunity to organize a big amount of toys and classify them by age to help with the organization and preparation for the big activity on Saturday. The kids will be very happy and we are very grateful for this opportunity.

We are helping the local church prepare tracks with very important information about the church with words of wisdom and hope. We are ready to share it with the people!

This morning we are at Rafael’s apartment. It’s a huge blessing being able to beautify his home even more and get to hear his story. 

This morning some of us are spending some time with the residents of Las Margaritas. We're talking, playing games and coloring. We're having a great time. 

We are also able to help Maria. She is currently living alone, so she was very happy when she saw us! We are able to help do some house upkeep, like folding clothes and taking the dust off many figurines she loves to collect! It is a great blessing to see Maria smile!

Tonight we are all at Iglesia Cristiana Sendero de la Cruz joining their youth in their service. It has been a great experience being able to worship as one church and pray over each other. 

Today we are having the opportunity to make 500 bracelets for the kids. Each color bead represents different aspects of the plan of Salvation. This gifts will be given on Saturday for the special activity for Three Kings Day. 

Today we have the opportunity to clean the chairs of the church and  brush off the dust. It is a great privilege to do this job and we are grateful to do it. 

This afternoon we are working at Lizette's house, a member of the church whose aunt founded the church. We are doing some yard work and cleaning up debris and taking the time to get to know Lizette. She is telling us the story about how God healed her leg from an infection that almost made her lose her leg but he did the miracle. 

We're visiting Egida del Maestro, an elderly community of teachers that live in the same building. We're deep cleaning the community kitchens in each floor as much as we can. We hope the residents love it!

This morning, a group of us, are painting at Glady’s house. This in an amazing way of refreshing an already beautiful home. 

We have the opportunity to fill up the basket balls, volleyball and soccer balls for the activity on Saturday. The kids on Saturday are going to have a lot of fun! 

We are having the opportunity to walk around the community with some of the kids and talk with the people to invite them for The Three Kings Days Activity at the church. We also are giving them information for the church and an invitation.

We are starting our day with a big project to paint the science and technology room. This room was affected by hurricane Maria, flooded and deteriorated by sand. Since then the teacher has had to give classes like that and slowly build the room back up. Now we get to help out finishing touches by helping to paint it again so it looks bright and good. 

We're back at Egída del Maestro this morning. We're playing with the residents and talking with them. It's an honor to spend this time with them and we're grateful for the opportunity. 

While some of us are continuing the fun with the residents, a group of us are cleaning the exit stairs of the building. We're more that happy to help this community this way.

Today we have the opportunity to clean inside the house of Meche at the community near the Church at Humacao Campus. The woman we are serving is very happy and joyful that she can get her house clean.

This afternoon some of us are taking toys to a kids home. We are so grateful for the opportunity to help the home give them an even better three kings day! 

We are here with Carmen after a couple of hours of hard work. We are so grateful to hear about her life experiences and also pray for her. We are having such a great time together!

Before we leave the church of Humacao, pastor Tulio and his church members are praying for us and anointing us as a symbolic way to send us back to our homes renewed and with the presence of the Lord. 

Today we travel back home, but we want to close up this trip by doing one more Bible study together. Some of us have been doing these during the whole week, and we pray is something we can continue doing, praising and learning more about God, as a community of believers. God has given us lots to think about and to grow, and we know that he will continue the work he started in us