BACK TO NICARAGUA

Norma and I are honored and humbled at the way God has opened up this opportunity to serve once again. We will be headed to Nicaragua beginning June 3 and will be there through October 23.  ,

We're so excited for the new challenges that our Church Mission Team is tackling right now. We have been revising roles and have some exciting goals and strategies we're fleshing out..slowly but surely. We're being very intentional to teach and encourage integral faith-based development with our Nicaraguan partners.

I will be teaching History of Missions (from a biblical worldview) in the New Jerusalem Bible Institute every Saturday. We pray the number of those pastors and church leaders enrolling in the course will be a good number because they will be the ones who in turn teach their own churches integral faith principles. (It’s always a better idea for Nicaraguans to teach Nicaraguans at the grass roots level). Our co-partner Kerrie Kuntz will be joining us in Managua some time in June for a one-year commitment with PICI.  Some members of our church put together $300 for Maria's seamstresses to purchase a sewing machine locally and start a cooperative micro-business in the community. It'll be exciting to see how that gets up and going. Heather Martinez of our Church at Ginger Creek will join us and spend a week with Maria and the new business.  Dates for the sewing workshop are somewhere between June 29-July 6. Kerrie Norma and I will join that workshop. Our tentative plan/hope as a co-partnering team is to help the Nicaraguan ladies knock out volumes of product to sell--possibly school uniforms. 

We're also excited about having Megan and Jana Mckinley also of Ginger Creek in Aurora being there in July to work with Maria in Bible studies and Church visitation.

We are so thankful that God provided us with a missionary couple's house to rent for July-October.  Also we will be traveling some time in June to Costa Rica to talk with key leaders who have organized churches there to use S.E.A.N. Theological Education by Extension. There's a small leadership group in Managua that appears to be struggling with how to use the TEE in Nicaraguan churches. 

We will also be working with Jorge and Monica in the mountain village of Pochocuape. We will be checking out the courses being offered by the Nehemiah Center on how to successfully set up and run a self-sustainable micro-business. Another resource from the Nehemiah Center that we'll research for our Nicaragua ministry partners will be Healthy Church Growth and Christian Schools as a business. 

We could go on and on. Plans are huge, but we yield daily to see everything through God's eyes, not our own. We human beings are so prone to run ahead of God. We have learned a lot this year or two of asking God, "Where are you working…let us go there" and then standing back and seeing how he shows up to open the doors and lighten the path. 

Thanks to all of you for your prayer and monetary support. Money is always needed and appreciated. But your heart-investment and prayers for God's Kingdom work is crucial. That is foundational for Norma and me to consistently attempt to know when, where and how to follow in His footsteps.

If you are interested in helping our ministry in Nicaragua, you can simply mail a check to:

PARTNERS IN CHRIST INTERNATIONAL

PO BOX 237

Tempe, AZ 85280

Then please attach a separate note indicating "for Dock and Norma Caton operational expenses only." 

We are committed to praying for you,  our family and friends as we serve Him in the Kingdom journey.

Sincerely, Dock and Norma Caton