CFCI-Nicaragua

I had an amazing week with the youth team from Seacoast Church last week in Rivas, Nicaragua. Unfortunately, I don’t have a lot of time to write about our experience because I’m getting ready for the next Seacoast mission team, this one a medical team arriving on Saturday. So here are the pictures and another [...]

Perspectives: We all have them and they are all different.
Last weekend I went with some friends to some islands on the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua. As many of you may have heard me say before the Atlantic coast is like a different country. There are a lot more darker skinned Nicaraguans and Spanish is not [...]

The past month has been been full of incredible meetings with great teachers at Colegio Hosanna Sur. Julie and I have had tremendous opportunities to encourage and equip teachers all while building relationships with the administration and the students. What a blessing it has been.
Today we had the opportunity to [...]

Yesterday we closed out an amazing week of children and youth ministry with the mission team from Hope Center Covenant Church (from the Bay Area) and our Nicaraguan hosts, Nueva Jerusalem Church.
I can’t describe to you how well the two groups (us cheles and the church volunteers and host families) bonded this week. It was [...]

Esperanza and her husband Angel are strong leaders in their home church here in Managua, Hosanna Sur. Our relationship with their church began four years ago when medical team worked with their church. We have seen lots of growth in their development, discipleship and community. Several other teams have [...]

From LEI

The last two weeks 12 Nicaraguans representing 6 departments gathered as one to take part in a leaders training for Literacy and Evangelism International. The time was amazing as we learned how to first use the curriculum and then how to train other teachers. The bit test at the end [...]

It’s time for another round of “Five Questions on Short-Term Missions!” Today on the hot seat is Brittany Meyers. Brittany was one of my first friends when I moved to Charleston, SC after college. We had a lot of fun times together with our “Tweeners” gang at Seacoast Church. It was such a blast [...]