Based in Managua, reaching out to Nicaragua: Christ for the City International.
Empowering the local church through outreaches, leadership & pastoral training.
One of the most inspiring, moving, Spirit-led worship experiences of my life occurred a couple of weeks ago during the Seacoast medical mission trip at the Nueva Jerusalén Church. It was twenty Americans and two hundred Nicaraguans praising God.
No inhibitions.
No concerns about a language barrier.
No holding back.
Just singing to our Lord and Savior.
It was awesome.
I [...]
Just to prove that the Emmanuel Fellowship team didn’t goof off the whole time they were in Nicaragua, Episode 008 of Missions Minded Videos shows what the mission really was about: serving the First Baptist Church of Diriamba and providing a fun, Jesus-focused vacation Bible school for the kids there.
I finished this video [...]
Read full post...You’re going to enjoy Episode #6 of Missions Minded Videos: “Cooking With Claudia!” Claudia will show us how to make Nathan’s mouth-watering Nicaraguan food: pescosones.
They’re a slice of heaven. Fried.
As a bonus for this video, if you watch on YouTube, you’ll see a new feature called YouTube Annotations, which is kind of like interactive Pop-Up [...]
Episode #5 of “Missions Minded Videos” is extreme.
As in extreme…home…makeover!
Fabricio invited the team over last Sunday for a little home improvement party — Nicaraguan style. And it was, in fact, a lot of fun! You’ll see in the video that the work got done (removing a wall so that Adiel and sleep in the same [...]
Episode #4 of “Missions Minded Videos” is a cooking show: how to make authentic Nicaraguan tamales! “Tia” (Claudia’s sweet aunt) shows us how to make “nacatamales de pollo,” wrap them in plantain leaves, and serve them up hot. Watch out Rachel Ray, you have new competition: “Cooking With Tia!”
Read full post...I promise, this will be the last “re-run.” But if you didn’t catch this video first time, now you can download on YouTube or iTunes! This video is from the Kirk of the Hills medical mission trip in Rivas, Nicaragua.
Read full post...I’m “re-airing” the video from the T Bar M kids camp in Caimito from March as “Episode #2″ of the Missions Minded Videos podcast. I apologize for the re-run. But I’m sure you’ll agree with me that videos with Nicaraguan kids playing, having fun, and learning about Jesus are usually worth watching again!
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