La Chureca

Friday we visited La Chureca, (a place infamous enough to coin the name THE Dump) the city dump of Managua. In and around the dump there is a community of about 800 people that live and work in the dump. The workers dig through the trash day in and day out, collecting valuables from what [...]

Shout to the Lord

We sing this song on Sundays and I’ve rediscovered my love for this simplest of hymns. It’s full of Adoration, something I often struggle with, and puts my focus on God and his amazing strength. My Jesus, my Savior Lord there is none like you. All of my days, I want to praise The wonders [...]

Recovery Group

I started a new small group that met this morning. We are calling it a recovery group because it is geared towards people who are struggling with addictions – specifically drugs and alcohol. It is set up to run sort of like an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. About 15 guys showed up this morning. We started [...]

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8:30am Worship

Our church meets the first and third Sunday of every month under a huge tree. There’s about 40 people in total, a healthy mix of Gringos and Nicas, recovering addicts and families, men and women, adults and children. The musical worship is pretty lively, involving a lot of offbeat clapping and shouting by our worship [...]

Small Groups

Over the next couple of weeks, we will begin to implement a program that will focus on plugging everyone from the church we are a part of into a small group. We know the effectiveness of this model personally and we can’t wait to get started. Rebekah has a small group that meets weekly here [...]

Grace

Surely he has born our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone [...]

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