Greetings to our family and our friends,
David just returned last week from a 5 day trip to Nicaragua. While he was there he was able to visit two new missional zones where the church is working to plant new churches. One new area is in the department (or state) of Matagalpa. This area is north and east of Managua. He visited a church in Matiguás that was started one year ago and some of its surrounding communities.
David had the privilege of preaching in a very poor community called Muy Muy. Please pray for this community as there is such a great need for the gospel here and very little representation of evangelical churches. David and some Nicaraguan evangelism leaders came to this community without promoting that they wanted to do a service and ended up having between 30 and 40 people come for the service and two people reconcile with Jesus Christ.
That same day they did an evening service in the mother church before driving back to Managua. It was a short night as they arrived in Managua at 12:30 am and then boarded a plane at 6:30 am for the northeast coast of Puerto Cabezas. It is still not possible to drive to Puerto Cabezas from Managua as this area had just received very heavy rains as a result of Hurricane Ida (David checked the weather this time as he already had a hurricane experience as he actually arrived in Puerto Cabezas the same day Hurricane Felix hit in Sept 2007:)
Although the main city, Bilwi, seemed to have made it through Hurricane Ida fairly well, many outlying communities suffered severe flooding. This is a picture of the community of Il Tara which lost almost everything they had planted in rice and beans. In some areas, the farmland was under as much as 12 feet of water. This picture shows the mud and dirt residue that remained on the trees after the flooding.
We are looking into possible compassionate projects to help this community. We rejoice in the new works that Brother Feliciano is working with. Here are two pictures from our visit with the leaders in Il Tara and the home for a new cell group in the community of Loma Verde which is on the other side of the city from the mother church.
The lady in the center has opened her home for the Nazarene cell group. The church has directly impacted her life as her son accepted Christ a year ago through attending the Church of the Nazarene. He now has a call to ministry. They are a very sweet family (although it is hard to get them to pose for a picture:) Although there is much poverty here, we can sense the joy these people find in knowing they have eternal riches in the Lord. We are very excited for the ministry possibilities and look forward to continuing to reach new people for Christ. We thank God for all He is doing and are remembering that He does not want even one person to perish but for every person to come to repentance (2 Pet. 3:9). Please pray for boldness and faithfulness as we share the only real hope we have--Jesus Christ.
Much love in His Name,
David, Shelley, Joshua and Kayley
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