7/3&4/09 — Friday & Saturday WE apologize for missing the blog last night but our day was long and didn’t end until 9:30. We will try to update you on what’s been happening since our last post. On the job site, yesterday, we were able to paint the front of the church. We got to [...]
7/2/09 — Thursday Most everyone was feeling back to their “regular” self today. Once again we were up and off to the work site by 7:30 am. Our ride there was uneventful. More white paint was waiting for us. Today we were painting corrugated sheets of tin for the roof. There was progress on putting [...]
7/1/09 — Wednesday Today started at 3 AM when there wasn’t a vacant bathroom to be found in the hotel. Nine out of twelve team members decided to synchronize their upset stomachs while others were taking numbers at the door. Order could not be restored! Breakfast ended up being a quiet date for two for [...]
In cooperation with the Board for World Missions of the Brethren in Christ Church Pequea has sent another team to Nicaragua. Nicaragua is one of our missions focuses, therefore a team from Pequea will be traveling from June 27 – July 6 to La Montanita BIC Church, just south of the capital city of Managua. [...]
6/30/09 — Tuesday Today started off like yesterday. Up and ready to go by 7am to have a good breakfast and then on the road back to La Montinita to do more work. We did make a pit stop at a pharmacia (pharmacy) to pick up extra wound care supplies for Wes’s scraped-up leg. No [...]
6/29/09 — Monday Lordy, Lordy! Look who is 40! Oh no, that was the wrong number. We think she is… uhh… well, we’ll never tell! Daleen turned one year older today! Little did she know what the team had in store for her. We started off our day with another delicious breakfast provided by the [...]
6/27/09 — Saturday Wow, Pequea Church sure knows how to throw a send-off party! Your attendance and support was appreciated by every trip member more than you could imagine. After saying our goodbyes, we began our drive to Baltimore Airport and arrived with time to spare. Our flight was on time and we landed safely [...]
We just got word that the Nicaragua team has arrived safely. Due to a thunderstorm hitting as they arrived at the hotel last night they were not able to connect to the internet. Look for an update soon! (Nicaragua is 2 hours behind us on EST).
At 7:30 a.m. the team gathered to weigh suitcases and load up the trailer. By 8:00 a group of family, and friends gathered for a time of Prayer. Pastor Daleen Charles reported to the group from Pastor Dale Shaw that the week long leadership training for the BIC pastors in Nicaragua had gone well. Marshall [...]