Nicaragua

We find ourselves 9 days out from getting on a plane and heading to Nicaragua. There is much excitement and a lot of "firsts" related to this journey. We have seen God's hand at work in many ways: the forming of our team, financial support, and lots of little cool stories (I will share one in a moment). There are no doubt a million other ways God is at work but we simply can't see it or lack the faith to realize it. We would be pridefully wrong to think this trip has been made possible through the work of our own doing. We also understand that we cannot hope to accomplish Kingdom purposes without a strong team of prayer saints. We have made this blog available to you and whomever for the purpose of prayer. I am not sure how often we will be able to update while in Nicaragua but we hope to share our story here during and after the trip.

A small but cool story of God's work: For those of you who do not know, our church was invited by another church (Magnolia Baptist in California) to join them on a trip to Masatepe Nicaragua. So in many ways we are piggybacking on Magnolia. It is a little bit of a challenge to figure how to work together when half the team is in California and the other half in Missouri. So Magnolia has planned a lot of the trip and we are stepping in where needed. So I get an email from Magnolia asking if we have anyone on our team who can make balloon animals and anyone who can do face-painting. I could not believe it! In our little group of six people we have both an experienced face-painter and an experienced balloon-animal-creator! Some people would say it is just coincidence but not us - God is at work!

Here is the list of our team:
Chris Borkert (Hope Fellowship)
Emily Henry (Hope Fellowship)
Terra Price (Hope Fellowship)
Katelin Duffie (Hope Fellowship)
Kaleigh Steward (Hope Fellowship)
Richard Duffie (Hope Fellowship)
Alvin Co (Sunkist Community)
Yeegee Co(Sunkist Community)
Mike Nelson (Baptist Church in Santa Ana)
Pastor Daniel Pacheco(Pastors an NAB church in Chula Vista)
Jessica Gough (Teenager)(Magnolia)
Brittney Grant (Teenager)(Magnolia)
Bill Hatch(Magnolia)
Jerry Henning(Magnolia)
Rodica Marc(Magnolia)
Cody Mora (Teenager)(Magnolia Baptist)
Dave Pugsley(Magnolia)
Corey Wylde(Magnolia)