CFCI-Nicaragua

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 [...]

James Bond is “007″. It’s entirely appropriate that Episode 007 of Missions Minded Videos is a top-secret, under cover, covert operation. No lives were risked making this video, but lots of laughs ensued!
In this episode, the men of the Emmanuel Fellowship short-term mission (myself included) play a prank on the ladies of the team. (In [...]

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!”

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.