Before I get started I just wanted to say that lately I have overwhelmed by the support of you all, whether that was financially or spiritually. To know that you guys are sending up sweet prayers of incense before the Throne on the behalf of me and this mission is incredible. I often feel the weight of that so thank you!
A quick update:
Once again I have been without wi-fi here at Ometepe Island in Nicaragua. Since halloween, my team and I have been at an orphanage called CICRIN. They host 24 children from as young as five to as old as nineteen. Most of these kids do have a relationship with their parents and they see them every two weeks. However, their parents are so poor that they can’t afford to feed themselves let alone their kids. So the children come here to CICRIN.
My team and I over the past few weeks have been doing things such as cleaning, gardening, manual labor, teaching the kids, door to door evangelism, and a variety of other work at the orphanage. But our main ministry has been to kids anywhere from playing to praying with them. Also, just a few days before we arrived a massive mudslide ran down from one of the volcanoes on the island, and decimated many houses and families belongings. Our team raised over 1,000 dollars in just under a week to help support the mudslide victims. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to preach God’s Word to them. Afterward, my team and I blessed the 14 families that are not supported by the government because they don’t belong to the political party with basic needs as food and hygiene products..
PRAYER REQUEST: I want to let you know what the Nicaraguan government is planning to do to the island of Ometepe and Nicaragua as a whole. They plan to compete with the Panama Canal and build a canal right where Ometepe Island is. Even though they estimate to not make a profit from it for the next 40 years at least, and even after they do, they will have to pay back their loans to the Chinese for the following 60 years, which makes it a total of 100 years that the Nicaraguan government is willing to sacrifice the people’s livelihood for money. The situation has slowly gotten worse since we have been here at CICRIN. They passed a law last week that gives the government the right to take any land from the owner. This means that CICRIN very well could lose their property and that means these 24 kids would be without a place to go. Please join us in prayer for God’s will to be done and for Him to protect and bless CICRIN.
We leave for Honduras on Wednesday. Next month, all the men (9 of us) will be doing ministry together.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving and God bless you
