For those of you who are interested in our upcoming mission trip to Nicaragua, here is our itinerary. It is designed to serve as a strategic prayer guide for those who will commit to pray for our work there. Thank you for all the support you have given through prayer and donations and will continue to give through prayer.
Nicaragua Mission Trip August 4th- 15th
Thursday, August 4th- Friday, August 5th
- Travel to Nicaragua
Saturday, August 6th
- Purchase School Uniforms/Book bags
- Sort Donated Items from Shipping Container
Sunday, August 7th
- Visit Village of Nuevo Jicarito – Approx 25 Families with 60 children
- Visit Village of Las Mesitas – Approx 150 Children
Monday, August 8th
- Visit Village of Flor de Azalia – Approx 110 Children; Distribute Book bags and School Supplies to Teachers
- Visit Village of Becerro – Approx 40 Families with 100 children
Tuesday, August 9th
- Visit Village of San Manglito – Approx 155 Children; Take Pictures Village & Land where church will be
- Visit Village of Los Laredos – Approx 150 Children
Wednesday, August 10th
- Wedding
Thursday, August 11th
- Pastors Conference/Training in Somotillo (8am-3pm) – Distribute Pastor Resources (Books, bags, pens, notebooks
- Lunch with Pastors/Wives
- Movie night at the Church in Somotillo 5:00pm
Friday, August 12th
- Visit Village of Cinco Pinos
- 9am meeting with Ladies in Village for Basket program
- Visit church in Cinco Pinos Approx 150 Children
Saturday, August 13th – Sunday, August 14th
- Travel
Along with the activities listed above, in each village we will also be:
- Sharing the gospel
- Distributing school supplies to the children
- Updating the children’s profiles and pictures for their sponsors
- Feeding the people
- Playing games
- Bible story/VBS
- Distributing clothes and shoes
- Distributing hygiene packs
Your prayers are much needed and greatly appreciated. This trip will touch the lives of over 1,000 children and their families in 8 villages. Please pray for the village will be serving in each day that God would move and souls would be won for the kingdom. Pray for healing in a hurting country. Pray for the time we will be training the pastors while we are there because their influence and work for God can reap an unimaginable harvest over the course of their lives. We also ask that you please pray for Phil Shouse who will be preaching both Sundays in my absence on the mission trip.
Nicaragua Fast Facts (compared with U.S.)- info from Operation World
§ Area- 127,849 sq km. The largest of the Central American republics, Nicaragua is about the size of Mississippi
§ Nicaragua is a secular state with complete religious freedom since 1990.
§ Population- 5,822,265 (U.S. 317,641,087)
§ Official language- Spanish (U.S. English)
§ Literacy- 76.7% (U.S. 99%)
§ Income per person- $1,028 (U.S. $47,440). $2.81 per day (U.S. $129.97 per day)
§ Protestants- 21.25% (U.S. 27.51%)
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