Team 1611

Day 5 (Friday) Message from Jan

Our devotion this morning reminded us that we are to be lights to the world and reviewed the various ways we have been lights this week. Our skylight installers gave actual light to the people in their homes allowing God's rays of sunshine to provide light for their daytime activities.  Those who delivered water filters to the homes provided God's light as we prayed with each family.  The children's team provided stories and activities including Jesus and his disciples getting dusty feet which Jesus then washed showing how much Jesus loves each and everyone of us.  Reviewing and reminding the women of ways to make their lives more healthful for their families was the joy of the health & hygiene leaders.  In all these ways each person was serving the Lord by God's love shining through us.  Praise the Lord.

Normally a team is in country on a Sunday and attend a worship service.  Since we are flying back on Sunday that wasn't going to happen for us.  Pastor Henry decided to have a special service this afternoon so we could worship with his congregation.  The service was held after the finish of the children's ministry.  The church was filled to overflowing with the team, our translators, 60+ kids and about 25 adults.  What a joy to celebrate the Lord's supper with our brothers and sisters here in Nicaragua.  It was the highlight of our day.

Well, its no April Fool joke--today was our last day already--the time just seemed to zip by. Tomorrow is our tour and shopping day. We will be leaving our current bed and breakfast to travel back to Managua tomorrowwhere we will be staying at the hotel across the street from the airport--that is literally across the street--no joke.  We also had about 10 rain drops today --honestly.  Will the just had a bit of a breeze it was cloudy till late this afternoon--once again the humidity was higher than the first 2 days.

Thanks again for all your prayers this week.  Please add Pastor Henry to your prayer list. He is the young pastor here for the two villages we worked in but he also had 3 other mission congregations and beyond that serves with the national mission.  His energy and joy is a joy to behold--pray the Lord gives him continued success in his ministry here.

Praise the Lord for our translators--Charlie, Freddy and Jessica--without them we could not have communicated with the people here.
Praise the Lord for Jose who previously has been a translator but this time he was the "guiding light" for installing the skylights.

Pray for the people in both communities that they will continue attending the church--in many cases the filters were an outreach way of shown Christ's love--pray the Holy Spirit instills the need for the Living Water of Christ.

Pray for Ricardo who about 2 1/2 mo ago was involved in a motorcycle accident and lost one of his legs below the knee.  He has been a translator for previous team and the hope is he will be able to continue even if he needs to do it from a wheel chair.

Pray for our safe travel to Managua.