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Nicaragua Mission Trip
March 2004
Derek, Johnna and Keith
For one week in March of 2004, our church sent down 20
members down to the capital city Managua of Nicaragua. The purpose of our
trip was to help evangelize for a local church that we support and also to help
with the sick in the area. One of our members is a Doctor who brought down
several suit cases of medical supplies. On the plane trip down, there were
two other church groups going down also on medical missions.
We stayed at an Assembly Of God Compound that caters to foreign
missionaries. The rooms were like college dormitories with each floor
having a community bathroom for both women and men. The rooms all had
vented windows with a fan for cooling. During the day the temperature was
between 90 and 100 degrees Fahrenheit and at night the temperature dropped to
the mid 70s.
In the mornings and afternoons we went into the neighborhoods, "barrios", around
the church we were supporting. We went door to door to witness to
the inhabitants and invite them to come to "Oasis Of Love" church at night and
also to visit our Doctor at the church. We split up into around 4 teams,
which had two or more translators and also members of the local church.
Our breakfast and lunch were prepared at the Assembly Of God compound and our
dinner was a prepared dinner held around 9pm at the church after the
evening service.
We took off on Wednesday to take in touristy sites in
We went down thinking we would be a blessing to the church we supported from
On the last night's Church Service, the Oasis Of Love's Pastor Eddy called our evangelism team up to the front of the Church. We had no idea what was about to happen. He told the members of the church that we had came down to Managua at great expense and asked the church to bless us back. A great number of the local members then came up and gave us money and personal items. I know that they had no understanding that what they were giving to us in their local currency was pennies in our US currency; but when all of us saw what they were giving us, we saw that it what many of them earned for many days wages. We were all deeply touched by their act of faithfulness to God.