Back to school!

Greetings!

I have spent the last couple of weeks preparing to start a new school year at NCA/Nicaragua Christian Academy as Lower Elementary Teacher's Assistant. It has been a little overwhelming at times, but well worth all the time and effort. We had our open house last night and I enjoyed meeting the parents and students. Some were old friends, and some I was meeting for the first time. This is a new begining. I can hardly wait to see what God has planned for the next semester and on from there.

Back to school for the students starts on Monday, I look forward to being in the classroom again and working with the children in 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Roll on Monday! Go God!!! I'm with you!

Coming soon..... watch this space for pictures and updates on the children in El Crucero. I am heading up to visit them now :)

God Bless, thank you for your continued prayers. Love ya xxxx

Dear friends:

thank you for your prayers for Ofelia. She is improving daily and may be released in another couple of days. Praise God!

BUT: we have 4 more babies in hospital battling chronic pneumonia. Working around the clock to help them get better. Please pray for miracles of healing and thank God for sustaining us as we continue to care for them. Two babies at the hospital (not in our care) went to be with their Heavenly Father yesterday. Coveting your urgent prayers. Thanks, God Bless x

Urgent prayer request!!

Please pray for a miracle of healing for 4 year old Ofelia critically ill in hospital in Managua. (Yes, she is 4 years old, not 4 months.) She is severly malnourished and battling for her life.)
Will send more info later, got to get back to the hospital.
THANK YOU! God Bless X

What's NEW?

Back in Nicaragua, and happy to be here! Rainy season and all!!!

It is so beautiful, lush and green. I am in awe of your wonderful creation LORD. The words from Isaiah 55 v 12 come to mind; "You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills will burst into song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands." I join Creation in praising you LORD.

Thank you to all who made my time in USA so fruitful and rewarding. I love you!!

I made several interesting contacts while I was in Florida and plan to follow up on them here over the next couple of weeks. Please pray for God's direction for my meetings with: Food for The Poor, Angels of Hope Orphanages, ANF/American Nicaraguan Foundation, Arms of Love Orphanage and La Vina (to name a few.)

"See I am doing a new thing! I am making a way in the desert, and streams in the wasteland." says The LORD in Isaiah 43

And indeed He is doing a new thing in my life.

God has provided me with an opportunity to work as a teacher’s aide in a local Christian school here. It is a missionary position that pays a basic living stipend. This will help me to take care of some things that my previous budget did not allow. Mostly health & dental care, maybe also a car, and at some point a home of my own. I have been hitching rides and taking public buses, which I don’t mind at all but it is getting increasingly dangerous, especially as a single female.

The Nicaraguan Christian Academy (NCA) is dedicated to raising up a new generation of leaders to bring this country out of the darkness it has been entrapped in for so long. This matches my vision for Nicaragua.

It will be quite different for me to be ministering to children at the school, a new responsibility in a totally new environment.

I feel strongly about continuing to work with children in need, in orphanages and in the streets, and I pray that God will make it known to me how He wants me to do that.

One of my future visions is to be able to provide a safe place, a home for children in critical need, and I press on with that goal in my heart.

I appreciate your prayers and invite you to stay with me as we go forward to the next scene in the Epic Adventure of Life.

The John 1:14 Challenge!

Right on target!! Go Gainesville, Go Gators! Got your attention?

read on …..

No doubt God’s heart is broken for the lost and abandoned, the needy, the orphans and widows. The Bible makes it clear how God feels about missions. Jesus Christ is our model of how we should reach out to help. Jesus ministered through loving people and building relationships with them. He encouraged and discipled people then empowered them to go out and do the same.

The Missions conference at The Vineyard of Gainesville a couple of weeks ago was a rich time of unity. I was blessed to be among like minded people from so many of the different churches in the area. Many thanks to all who helped with the conference, it was very rewarding to share our hearts for missions with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.

Thank you LORD for all the seeds that were planted, may The Harvest for Your Kingdom be great! May this become an annual event and continue to stir peoples’ hearts for missions. May we bring Glory to Your name Father as we go out and do the work you have commissioned us to do.

I fly back to Nicaragua June 24th. Check back for more updates :)

"Mercy, Peace and Love be yours in abundance." Jude 2

Awesome God!

The YWAM Outreach training ended May 18th and the last of the team left on Thursday night. WOW! What a radical, fun, challenging God adventure!! We travelled around Nicaragua and worked with several different ministries as well as local communities and got a great firsthand experience of many of the awesome works that God is doing here.

Praise God that Jo jo and Japheth were able to leave Managua last week to travel back to the Atlantic Coast to be reunited with their family. Just in time to celebrate his 1st birthday at home! What an amazing recovery, and a living testimony to God's healing power.

The YWAM girls and I learn how to make tortillas, outside, Nican style.

Visiting dear friends in the community of Los Cedros.

We visited two schools in Nejapa and shared the story of Noah. We talked about God's unconditional love for us and His perfect plan for each one of our lives. Through hearing The Word, one of the teachers accepted Jesus as her Savior! AND the Pastor we were working with that week was invited to return and give weekly bible study classes . Hallelujah and Amen!!!! Thank you LORD for allowing us to be even a small part in your amazing plans. "And how can they believe without hearing? And how can they hear unless someone tells them?" Romans 10 v14

We did a Kid's Camp" for about 80 children 3 afternoons in a row. Many of them wanted to come back to the church on Sundays and bring their family's. Thank you LORD that: "He who began a good work in you will carry it through to completion until the day of Christ Jesus." Philippians 1v6

We helped with a feeding program at the city dump, La Chureca, and stayed to play with some of the children afterwards.

Team photo in church at Pochocuape.

YWAM girls, I will miss you! Thanks for coming here and doing life with us! You're the best!

Japheth released from hospital :)

Celebrating the success of the final skin graft. Amazing God!
Oh and I forgot to tell you I have the honor of being called "Abuelita blancita" (The white Grandmother.)

Baby Japheth was finally released from hospital last week! Hooray! He was admitted with his Mother April 8th and had several emergency plastic surgeries on his leg. He is recovering well at a friend's house and will stay in Managua for at least 15 days so they can go for a follow up checkup. Praying they can return to the Atlantic coast to their family soon. Thank you LORD for your provision, healing and protection. You are good ALL the time!

Starting early with The Word: Japheth "reading" my Bible :)