This letter is being sent to a few trusted friends and family who I know will be praying for us. Thank you so much for your prayers. God has made this trip for Norma and me possible only because you care enough to pray. Thank you so very much.
Norma and I find ourselves back in the same place that we were in only a few months ago; right here in Nicaragua. The one thing that we did not realize is that we landed at the beginning of Holy Week, and everything is at a standstill. We have not been as active the first three days as we had thought we would be, but God knew all about this ahead of time. He knew our bodies needed a little time to adjust to the tremendous heat we are facing. It has been 100 degrees or over every single day, and does not let up even in the night. Plus, the fact there is no AC, to cool off once in a while creates a bit of a problem. We both readily admit that is a little bit of a shock to us, but we are not complaining. God is so good to le us be here. We know that we are where we are supposed to be.
We are renting a little house from a young Pastor lady by the name of Ali. The arrangement is sort of bread and breakfast style. Day in and day out she does not stop talking about her Savior. She refers to him as (mi Senor) My Lord or my Master. She reminds me a little bit of what I read about Mary in John ch. 12 when she fell at the Master’s feet, and did not stop admiring him and putting expensive nard and perfume on his feet, then wiped them with her hair. She seems so humbled and given to Him. She gives one story after another straight from the Bible and delivers it in such a way that is so alive and refreshing.
Beginning Monday, we will be more in a routine, as we will have a little office, a place to work out of, and it will be available to us daily or as we want or need it. It is located in the Nehemiah Center that Norma and I made contact with when we were here before. Hopefully there will be a little bit better Internet service there. Here, we get it once or twice a day, and it doesn’t last long.
We have had some good visits with Maria; things are going well with her. We will be in the Easter Service with her tomorrow. They are so happy with their new Church and school. There is still work to be done, but it doesn’t bother them in the least. They just keep right on going.
Please pray for our physical strength, and perhaps that God would make a break in this heat, or give us more strength to pass through it. We want to be as effective as we can possibly be in these few weeks that we are here.
Secondly, we are praying about two special opportunities while we are here to make some side trips. We had been praying about these two places even before we left home. One of these trips is up in Puerto Cabezas, which is far up north on the Atlantic Side. A missionary colleague who lives in Lisle and has worked in Nicaragua, has a Nicaraguan friend who runs an orphanage up there. He has asked us to check on this work if at all possible, while we are here. This is an area you can only get into by small plane, and he will pay our way up there if we are able to go. The trip will only happen though, if our friend can make e-mail contact with this guy to let him know we are coming; so it isn’t sure as yet. But please pray that he can get through by e-mail.
The other side trip, which we hope to make, is a trip into El Salvador. We have a mission friend coming from Spain who is in a conference there, and will be discussing ways to teach Nicaraguans and other Central and Latin Americans about moving out to other parts of the world. They have created their own Latin American Mission society to send out Missionaries. This has been a long time prayer and dream of ours to see missionaries going out all around the world.
And last but not least, this is something that is very dear to our hearts. We thoroughly believe more than ever, that God is preparing something very special for his Church, by uniting people from all over the world. We do not know if we have 3 days, or 3 million years until He returns, but it seems as if, for whatever reason, He is trying to unite the Church around the world in unprecedented ways. We are so thrilled and excited about being a part of this world movement, as we watch Him drawing people together and uniting them in miraculous ways.
To sum it all up, I guess my request to you this time, is simply pray that God’s will be done. We send you our love and prayers, and sincerely request your prayers in our behalf as well.
Sincerely, Dock and Norma
No comments:
Post a Comment