I am here in Granada, Nicaragua with the Calvary Day School team- 30 of them with great hearts for Jesus. Here are some of the teams thoughts and their words on what they have learned so far in the past 2 days:
Team 2 – Team Dominio
We have witnessed a world and a way of life we could not have
imagined existed. We spent time at a dump site where families with
their children dig through the heaps of filth for their livelihood. This
and most everything here – we have never seen and most certainly never
experienced. ur worlds are very very different.
imagined existed. We spent time at a dump site where families with
their children dig through the heaps of filth for their livelihood. This
and most everything here – we have never seen and most certainly never
experienced. ur worlds are very very different.
As different
as our lives are in the material sense, they are equally the same from a
spiritual sense. We know that we, just like every “Nica”, are in
extreme “spiritual poverty” and we stand before God filthy all the same.
We and the Nicas are in desperate need for the very same Savior – Jesus
Christ. No matter how much, or how little we have, we are spiritually
bankrupt (all of us) in need of our debt to be paid.
as our lives are in the material sense, they are equally the same from a
spiritual sense. We know that we, just like every “Nica”, are in
extreme “spiritual poverty” and we stand before God filthy all the same.
We and the Nicas are in desperate need for the very same Savior – Jesus
Christ. No matter how much, or how little we have, we are spiritually
bankrupt (all of us) in need of our debt to be paid.
Team 3 – Team AMOR
In just 2 days, our team has already been in situations that have affected many emotions. We have been touched by the sad elderly folks that live in the nursing home (hogar de ancianos). We were challenged and saw many people touched as we went door to door and prayed for families in their houses…in a very tough neigborhood. Also we have been enlightened by the way the Nicaraguan people live their lives day to day- not desiring material things but that health is a blessing…
Team 5 – Team Alegria
Yesterday at the nursing home, we were doing physical therapy for about ten of the old folks. One man, Armando, was just kind of going through the motions, but didnt seem really into it; you could tell there was something going on with him. At the end we prayed for a man named Omar whose sister was going to have surgery. Armando saw us praying and asked us to pray for him as well.
That opened up an opportunity to talk to him, as he teared up, we learned he was a pastor for 17 years in Costa Rica, he is sad and lonely because his 19 brothers and sisters never visit him, and noone else visits. I saw God then because without our faith we had in common, we probably would not have individually prayed and spoken as much to him. One thing he said was that the Lord was the only thing that makes him happy, and that is important for us to know that HE is all we need.
—-Despite the different worlds, the different circumstances, the students and leaders here are learning that we have the very same God, the very same Spirit living in all of us who believe. And in that we have something in common. And can communicate regardless of race, language, or background—-
