A day in the life…
After three days of travel through Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, we arrived in Nicaragua about a week and half ago. My team and Team Ekklesia Eppikos are staying in Candelaria, a small, very poor village outside of Chichigalpa.
We’re been working with New Song Ministries this month which is headed up by two missionaries from the States, Tommy and Linda and has two missionaries in their twenties that live on site, Diego and Brittany. New Song is a plot of land that houses a church, a house (which will soon also house a bakery), a playing field, a basketball court, gardens, goats and a clinic. Our focus here is to basically build relationships with the people. It’s great because the mission seems to act as a central meeting place for many of the people that live in Candelaria. On any given day, we play with kids, hang out with teenagers, play sports with the men, help with the goats, talk with the kitchen staff, join in and in some cases help with evening services, youth discipleship, youth group, women’s services, prayer ministries, leadership training and Sunday school.
Our ministry here is very individual and we’ve been given a lot of opportunity to seek God on where He is leading us in ministry. My days never look the same but I thought I would share my day today just to give you an idea of what I’ve been up to for the past few weeks.
8:30 Breakfast
9:00 Morning worship as a group
10:00 Time with God
10:30 Help Diego do finance stuff for the mission
12:30 Lunch…beans and rice.
1:00 Meet as a team to plan youth discipleship for the evening
2:15 Play with some of the kids – coloring and swinging. They like to call me “leche” or milk. I remind them of my real name…Corni. haha
4:00 Me, Courtney and Christina go into Candelaria to ATL (Ask the Lord). God leads us to the house of one of the kids that we know from New Song, Carin. We visit with her parents (who are our age and whose oldest child is 10). We pray for Carin’s mom and brother who are sick and for Carin’s dad who has kidney failure, as do many of the men here because of the chemicals used in the sugar cane fields.
5:30 Prep my testimony for youth discipleship.
6:30 Youth discipleship. We split the guys and girls up and spend time talking about the way the world defines us and what God says about us instead. It was an awesome time where the girls really seemed to open up to us and we also got to share with them. We plan to spend time this week and next visiting them at home to talk with them one on one and pour into them individually.
10:00 Youth disicpleship ends.
It’s 10:40 now and we’re about to eat supper and do an evening devotion and then I will for sure collapse into my bed.
