I drove home from leading a week long trip in Mississippi last night at midnight. My check engine light flashed on about ten miles before my arrival. I’ve been in the states for over a month now but it sure doesn’t feel like that long.
Just to give you readers a picture of my life logistically… here’s what will be happening with me:
The next month: traveling all over the place visiting people, selling my car and probably leading another project or two. Come August, I’ll be headed back to Nicaragua for at least a year or until God tells me to do something else.
So there you have it. I’m not a detail oriented guy so I’m not going to lay it out all nice and pretty.
While in Nicaragua I will be doing mainly discipleship and teaching. There is an AIM base in Granada, Nicaragua where there will be about 7-12 teams traveling through over the next year. I will be personally discipling the participants of these trips and teaching them about the kingdom of God. I will probably also play an administrative role, as an extension of Charles Kaye (the base director), over many of the teams.
One of my personal goals for the Nicaraguans is to help empower them to disciple and raise up their own. Drugs and alcohol are major vices in Nicaragua and cripple the lives of countless Nicaraguans. There are several rehab programs for them get plugged into. Yet many make through only to find themselves back at the same place they were before. With Nicaragua’s economy being the second worst in the western hemisphere, jobs are hard to come by, especially by those just out of rehab. They may make it through rehab, but there’s not much hope on the other side and most of them fall back into old habits.
I would like to help raise up a few strong Nicaraguan leaders who have a heart for their own people; who will in turn invest into a handful of young men coming out of rehab. My goal is to spend one year of intense discipleship with three focused men, producing three strong leaders who will in turn invest in five young men for a lifetime, who will do the same and the cycle will continue.
I will be living in a house with a good friend for a year, will continue to be discipled by Charles and have the freedom to follow God as he speaks. I am thrilled with the opportunity and am very much looking forward to getting back out there.
If you would like to be involved through prayer or financial support, please contact me and I will let you know the best way to do either.
As I post this I am now in Savannah, Georgia, enjoying a relaxing week with immediate and extended family. I hope this week you also are able to relax and enjoy the company of those around you.
