*I wrote this last month in Nicaragua. Sorry im just getting around to posting this now.*
All about Nicaragua
So with all the blogs I have been writing, I forgot that I haven’t given you guys an update on what we have been doing this month.
So here it is!!! All you could ever want to know about Nicaragua!!!
This month our squad has been split up and my team and another team is staying at a ministry site called Vision Nicaragua. This ministry has a wide arrange of things it does to help the community. Currently we have been paired up with other pastors to go into communities to do door to door evangelism. We also have worked at an orphanage helping in the farms that they have to provide food for the orphanage and to bring in money to support the orphanage. We also help with building projects on the land as well.
One of my favorite ministries this month has been working in the clinic on the Vision Nicaragua property. After experiencing major burn out from the fast pace career of nursing, I came on the race ready to get a break from anything pertaining to the medical field. But when I found out vision Nicaragua had a clinic something sparked in me once again and I was compelled to help out. When we first arrived here the pastor explained to us that many men in this region suffer from a terminal renal disease brought on by the chemicals they use in the sugar cane fields. Many families are broken as people are dying from this disease. The clinic at vision Nicaragua treats many people in this area with this disease. After hearing this story I knew I wanted to be a part of this.
It has been wonderful working in the clinic. In the beginning it was very slow paced but the doctor and nurse of the clinic explained to us that there were set days this month were they would be bringing in many men from the surrounding areas to be seen by the doctor and they would need help on those days. So far we have been a part of 2 of the days were there has been a constant flow of patients coming to be seen and it has been great!!!! I remembered once again why I LOVE doing clinics. I love the steady flow of patients. I love interacting with people and being able to brighten up there day with a smile.
Working in the clinic has also reminded me how great it is to meet people of the faith around the world. In the clinic there is a woman named Conny who acts at the nurse and assists the doctor, and let me tell you Conny is amazing! I nicknamed her Super Woman. She has been encouraging me in more ways than one. One day I explained to her that I was having ear pain. She preceded to give me instructions on how to naturally cure the ear pain but what stuck out to me the most is when she looked at me and told me “whatever you do, don’t trust in me, but trust in God to heal you.”
Today in the clinic there were many babies and children brought to be seen by the doctor. Standing in the midst of them I remembered I had a bag of balloons from Honduras and I wanted to hand them out. I asked conny if that would be ok and she told me “What ever God lays on your heart to do, do it!” I love how she constantly reminds me that we are here because of God and we are his vessels to be used by Him. She makes herself so readily available to be used by God and she encourages me to be that way as well.
This month in Nicaragua has been the most interesting/ different month yet. There are so many contrasting things in Nicaragua (more than I could ever explain). There is major spiritual warfare here as well. The Lord is beginning to open up my eyes to the war that is going on every day. All of my squad mates have been effected by this spiritual war in one way or another. I really can’t explain to you in this blog the depth of what’s happening here but I can say that spiritual warfare has become more real to me here than it ever has before. I am beginning to realize just how much darkness there is in the world. And how lost we are without a savoir. But one things is becoming even clearer to me, is that Jesus has come to be the light that shines in the darkness and PRAISE GOD FOR HIS MAGNIFICENT LIGHT!
I love what God is teaching me and I can’t wait for more lessons.
Please keep me in prayer as im still trying to raise support to meet my next financial deadline October 1st 2013.
Love and miss you all
J
