Sunday recap

Hey everyone sorry for the delay in posts the Internet service hasnt been working.

Team had another amazing day today! I think the team was thrilled to not be traveling anymore and to be finally settled in and going here in Port!

We started the day off at Pastor Earls church! It was a great service but at almost 3 hours long was a new experience for many! We had a fantastic lunch at the Verbo restaurant and then it was time to load up and take the orphanage kids to the beach!

Everyone had a great time playing in the ocean, building sand castles and playing soccer on the beach.  On the way back from the beach was when things got a little interesting... With all the rain they've been getting the "roads" had become worse than South Bend roads filled with potholes after a long winter! It didn't take long for the busses to start getting stuck and finally one bus got completely stuck, so we loaded up all the girls and all the younger kids in 1 bus to head back to base.  After a couple hours of failed attempts to dig, push and pull the bus out and after getting a 2nd bus stuck while attempting to pull out the first bus, a large truck made it's way out and we were able to get all the guys and the rest of the orphan kids back to base. It was definitely an opportunity to be "making memories".

While part of the team was working on the busses, the rest of the team joined with lots of people from the community for a special church service where DC preached and from what I heard, HE PREACHED!  It was an awesome day and tomorrow will be great as we begin building houses!

Saturday Recap

Hey everyone it's been a whirlwind two days for the team but we are in Puerto Cabezas and have had a great day!  Travel through to Managua was great and the flights this morning were an adventure for all!  We took a total of 3 planes throughout the morning to get us all here to Port by lunch time.  Everyone got a warm welcome from Pastor Earl, the pastor and leader of Verbo Ministries here in Port!

Lidia Bowie (Pastor Earls daughter) gave us a great tour of the Verbo Ministries facilities here after lunch and we got to see the church, school, orphanage, clinic, and a restaurant that operates to generate revenue for the ministry!

The team spent the afternoon playing with the kids from the orphanage and it was amazing to see two groups of people who don't understand a word each other are saying have sooooo much fun together! Piggy back rides, UNO, hilariously trying to learn Spanish from the kids brought tons of smiles!  We even had a chance to put together a team to take on the older boys in some soccer! It was quite the spectacle to behold but all in all we put up a good fight and had tons of fun!

An awesome day was capped off with going to youth group tonight at Verbo church! Not many things cooler than ending the day in worship with people singing the same song in Spanish and English! Such a great example of different cultures coming together to worship God!

More tomorrow!

Safe in ManaguA!

Hey everyone the team landed safely here in Managua and were all settled in to our hotel! The team did great and all the travel steps went smoothly! Grateful for all the prayers and the great sendoff this morning! Gonna grab some dinner and get some rest, we fly out to Puerto Cabezas (Port) in the morning!

Well post more tomorrow when we get to Port tomorrow!