Hello!

This blog highlights the team from Coshocton, Ohio and the church planting ministry that happened in a town called Martinez Brothers (so named in memory of the Brothers Martinez who were killed in the war). This area has about 400 residents, an elementary school and a children’s dining hall facility, but not much else. We were privileged to work on the Children’s Dining hall building, build a fence to protect it and show the Jesus Film in the evenings.


The Coshocton Team members are no strangers to Work and Witness ministry. Their church has sponsored many trips, including the one last year to Costa Rica. It was fun to see the returning friends and to meet some new ones as well.

Our “home base” for the week was a small hotel in Somoto, Nicaragua.
(Go a bit further north and you are in Hondurus!). Our transportation consisted of two pick up trucks and for the most part, the team rode in the beds of the trucks which always got fuller as we moved along….there was always someone who needed a ride somewhere!



We spent 3 days working in this community alongside the local residents. They were wonderful people who took great pride in fixing up the little they have.
Pastor Mercedes (seen here painting) organized every detail of the work project and did an incredible job including the town members in the project. You can see Pastor Mercedes painting the outside of the building (3rd photo from the end).


We held VBS activities each afternoon with an average of 60 kids in attendance. It was great to see the children enjoying the Bible stories and the crafts. The story of Noah was completely new to them and their eyes got big as Pastor Mercedes told them about the ark. The kids loved the balloon animals made by the team and waited patiently in line to receive theirs.



In the next few days, we’ll try to post info and photos about the fence project – done the old fashion way with picks and shovels!










Above you can see the new yellow walls and the peach colored posts...Beautiful!