Its 6:45am and I am in my tent being sarinaded by the sounds of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” being blared by our neighbors across the street. To follow the music selection we will inevitably hear “Red Red Wine” and other “great” 80ds classics.
(Those of you who do not know “turn around bright eyes” is a line from “Total Eclipse of the Heart”)
Yes it is quite the wake up call! Which actually works out well as I need to be up and running by 7am!
This month we are doing things a little differently. We had two ministry options which each of us prayed about and decided where to go based on what the Lord told us. Seven girls stayed behind here in Granada, Nicaragua while the rest of the squad ventured to the east cost to do hurricane relief work and build houses. Although I am not to sad about missing out on the 13 hour school bus ride (which actually turned into 32 hours!), I will miss the rest of the crew. Please keep them in your prayers as they are building houses and relationship with those who have literally lost everything.
The seven of us will be working with two missionary families who just recently moved and are starting a new ministry serving the poor of Granada and a base to send more missionaries. This base is just getting off the ground, we are actually the first group to come partner with them.
Some of the projects we are involved with this month:
– Renovations
We are helping with renovations of a property which was recently purchased and needs a lot of work. It is located across from the poorest community in Granada. We are actually living on the property for the next month.
This is the new base and where we are living this month
– Hauling wood
Hauling wood scraps from a building project. Wood here is very precious and expensive. The wood will go to a variety
of projects from giving those in the poor community fire wood, to building a horse buggy for a local farmer, to building other things for the locals.
We took about four truck loads from the sight and still have more to sort through.
(Yes I will be having some big old guns by the end of this month!)
– Feeding Program
We are also involved with a feeding program, which is serving large numbers of children in the poorest communities of Granada; cooking, serving the food, as well as building relationships.
Neighborhood visits
– Every afternoon we go out into the community and build relationships and share the gospel. We have only been going out for a short amount of time and have already had several people commit to follow Christ!!!!
Street / Community ministry
Every Thursday and Saturday we will be doing a children’s program and a teen program.
This Thursday is especially cool because our contacts work a lot with those who have recently come out of rehab, a group of them have become our friends and one of them is going to share his life story and what the Lord has done in his life. I am really excited!
So that is what we will be involved with this month!
The Beautiful city of Granada
