Jose Morelos

We began day 2 together studying the second chapter of Philippians. What an appropriate piece of scripture it was for us... "Each of you should look not to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.", "...for it is God that works in you to will and act according to his good purpose."

We truly see God working in our group here in Nicaragua through the various activities during the day. Today there were some from our group who went out to the construction site where they finished siding a house and got started on another. Others went to speak at a gathering of over 100 pastors, some who had traveled three days to be there. We also held our first session of both the baseball ministry and VBS.

We also have a couple of other projects going on here at Verbo. Melody is using her creative gifts to lead some of the children of the orphanage in painting a mural in the "mess hall." We have primed the walls and some of the mural is already sketched out...the painting will begin on Day 3. Also, Travis is using his gift of locksmithing to not only re-key (with a master key setup) all of the locks on the Verbo campus, but also to train a few of the men here in how to cut keys, re-key locks and other skills that Travis uses on a day-to-day basis. This will not only be useful to them here but is also an opportunity for business.

We have also been blessed to spend some time with the children playing games, soccer, jump rope and just talking. We feel truly blessed to be a part of what God is doing here at Verbo.

More later... (as long as we can get on the Internet...it's been down).

There is no other place we rather be than here in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. We have all come to that conclusion. We are encouraged by Paul's challenge to "in every circumstances to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of Christ." We began tuesday to do the work we all have prepared for months to do. After a home cooked breakfast  we spent time devoting ourselves to the task ahead, Today we started building a new home, prepared for receiving 150 kids for VBS and trained the coaches for the next three days baseball ministry with kids. We can't wait to see what the Lord will do tomorrow.