Managua Wrap-Up

Grace and I stayed 3 days longer than the rest of the team to be able to meet with dear friends (like those pictured) that we'd otherwise have missed...Bob and Myra Trolese, enjoying their 32nd year in Nicaragua!

Day Seven

Four of us put in another day at Tesoros de Dios; the rest did some sanding and painting at the home of our hosts... devotionals and times of sharing were highlights every day...We spent a lot of time in this van... and we still like each other!Dinner at La Finca, a restaurant owned by parents of NCA students... our "last supper" on this trip :(

Day Six - Mombacho Volcano & Granada

Day Five - NCA Summer Camp

It was Anna's turn to lead morning devotionals, employing part of our team for a little skit illustrating events in the life of Joseph...Tim enforces the exclusive use of English in his classroom by having his students "give him five (pushups)" when they slip up and use Spanish (his own slip-ups cost him ten... he says he did over 100 today ;-)

Day Five - Matagalpa

Our hosts have invested loads of time in the birth of NCA#3 in the mountains two hours north of Managua... a gorgeous twelve acre site has been purchased on the south end of Matagalpa; the first two classroom buildings are under construction, with opening scheduled for February 2013!En route, we had opportunity to help this group of men put the bed back on their truck, and to ask God to bless their work and families!

Day Four - Tesoros de Dios (God's Treasures)

We spent the morning working in a ministry run by Michelle Adams, a young lady who first came to Nicaragua to teach at NCA nearly a decade ago... no way to do the experience justice on this blog... this picture of Molly working with this 4-year-old (Pamela) with cerebral palsy is a great start!

Any amount given in support of this ministry would be a wise investment www.tesorosdedios.org

Day Four - At the Rivas' Farm

We got to celebrate a half-century of a life well-lived with the birthday girl, Isabel Rivas (front row, holding her grandson) and her family.Their church family has grown to 80 people, so for the past 3 years, they have been building an outer wall with continuing growth in mind... Jorge (bottom photo, far left) is a guard at the main campus of the school where this blogger served as director 1996-2005; his oldest daughter, Nancy (in the brown skirt) is a 4th grade teacher at the Nejapa campus, where daughter #2 (Paola, in purple) graduates from high school in December... sweet family!