A new Adventure!!!

Our God is an awesome God. He has such great plans for our lives! Every day holds something new. As many of you know, a good friend of mine, Ally, is here in Nicaragua with me for the next 4 months to complete her YWAM Discipleship training. The YWAM missions base in Belize recently asked us to lead a small team of girls here in Managua. So tomorrow we leave at 4 am for a 3 day and 2 night adventure, by bus, water taxi, (and who knows what else) to San Pedro, Belize. We will return with the girls to lead them in community outreaches and missions training. We do not know what each day will hold but we are expecting God to move and lead us step by step. Please keep us in your prayers as we step out in Faith on this exciting adventure. Watch this space for more updates :)

soda bottle serves as dish to hungry boy

Children line up with their plates to get a humble lunch at one of the feeding programs offered at Cristo Rey. I saw one little boy who did not have a plate and was clearly hungry. I took the soda bottle pictured in the photos, cut it in half and made a "dish" out of it so the little boy could get some food.

Check out the "kitchen area" where lunch was prepared. We are so blessed.

Cristo Rey 2010

February 23rd 2010: I went to visit Cristo Rey for the first time today. I had heard a lot recently about this community, but was shocked to see how devastatingly poor they are there. And I have witnessed poverty many times over in the three years I have lived here in Nicargaua. We went to see some of the schools that have been set up there, one in particular: a pre school with 250 children enrolled, but only one table and 15 chairs. If the parents want to send their children to school, they have to send them with a chair and books too. But the parents have no source of income, this community is in the middle of nowhere, on the outskirts of Managua. There is no work available, no running water, no shops. Desolate, dry and dusty. Yet just look at the smiles shining bright on the faces of God's little ones here. They were such a blessing to me, I have to go back. In what capacity, I do not yet know, except that I cannot just walk away and carry on as usual. They need our prayers, please join us in praying for God's blessings to reign down on them here in Cristo Rey, and for guidance on how to best help them.

Romans 12 v 13 "Share with God's people who are in need. Practice hospitality."

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Feb 19th 2010: Ally arrives =)

February 19th:
Hooray, my dear friend and sister in Christ Ally arrived today!!!!
We hit the ground running. I just read her blog entry for her first day here, would you just take a look at this:
by Ally:
Nicaragua :) "I am here in Nicaragua now! I had a great first day..filled and overflowing with crazy adventures. I went to the orphanage with Andrea and met the children, I think that I already fell in love with half a dozen children:) Then we went out to lunch with this family that was visiting from Colorado and who wanted more info about the orphanage, then we met up with this guy named Eli who runs a tutoring/feeding program for young children who don't have anyone at home to help with homework or money to buy their school uniforms...then he took us into the city dump and we got to meet some families that pick cans out of the trash to sell. And see a missions school that is in the middle...it is crazy that there is a small village of people that live in the dump filled with trash and smelly fires everywhere. It is a hard life for these people with not much hope. (see earlier blog entry on "La Chureca.") After that we went to a Christian school and visited a friends daughter...we hung out there until they had youth group and spent time worshipping and praying with some pretty on-fire kids! And on top of it all we prayed for several people along the way....and got pulled over by the police for not having all of out lights on even though it was not even dark yet...they just saw a chance to be paid off, which we never give into. All in all it was a great day filled with chances to meet new people and see God moving in different ways. We'll see what today holds:) " Ally