After spending the first morning walking through Granada’s market and visiting Granada’s central plaza, the 12 Lenawee high schoolers spent the afternoon interacting with young people who live in the community called Torre Forte that is located right behind El Puente.  The evening was spent waiting for the new year to arrive.

A Nicaraguan tradition is to make an ‘old man’, fills the ‘old man’ with fireworks and to light the ‘old man’ on fire at midnight on New Years Eve

After doing prayer walking the second morning, the Lenawee team spent the afternoon at the Pantanal property where they interacted with young people who lived in that area.

The third day was spent at El Fortín – a farming community located a short distance outside Granada.  Besides interacting through games with the young people who live in El Fortín, the youth team from Lenawee helped with passing out the food from the feeding program that is scheduled weekly in El Fortín.

          playing games with El Fortín children                          helping with the feeding program at El Fortín

The next day had the team go to the Granada dump where they helped with passing out the food that is taken there bi-weekly from El Puente. The team then went from the dump to a nearby community called Caña Castilla where they helped with the feeding program there.

The last full day for the Lenawee team began with an ATL followed in the afternoon by a sightseeing time on Lake Nicaragua climaxed when three of the Lenawee high schoolers where baptized.

The high school team from Lenawee was blessed with opportunities to learn about Nicaragua and about what life is like for their hosts as well as opportunities to share their faith, to participate in happenings where testimonies were given and where a gospel message was presented, to play with children in different places and in different settings and to help pass out food at three different sites.