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Nica News – March 17th

Another successful day serving our Lord.

The day started around 5 am with some enjoying fresh coffee and visiting on the patio. As the early morning progressed everyone was ready for devotion by Libby and prayer by Rick. Another A+ breakfast from momma and crew.

Following breakfast, Rick, Mike, Ruben, and Kent spent most of the morning painting the exterior wall of the lunchroomkitchen. Also some time was spent checking out the new compost pit. The compost was worked and worms were set into part of it, then covered by tin.

After a great lunch, the trucks were loaded and we headed out to Villa Nueva. At the village, there was much excitement in the name of Jesus. Some worked on cooking the soup, some did a dance routine with many of the children participating. Rick gave a super testimony to the children and mothers. A couple guys did the watermelon ministry, slicing up 20 melons and handing them out. After the soup was done, we served everyone and there was none left. Heather and Libby threw clothes and candy from the back of the pickup. We stopped and everyone got a cold soda for the ride home.

A fantastic “God Moment” to finish the afternoon happened when all of us stopped at the river and was able to witness the baptism of “G” by pastor Mike. What a wonderful completion to another beautiful day. Congratulations to “G”.

Dr and Mrs. Donald M Gillette
Because We Care Ministries, Inc.
P.O. Box 21806
Roanoke, VA. 24018
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About Nicaragua

Nicaragua is the largest country in Central America. To the north it is bordered by Honduras, and to the south by Costa Rica. Nicaragua is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere, partly because of the long civil war of the 1980’s and the devastation caused by hurricane Mitch in 1998. The vast majority of the five million inhabitants live in abject poverty with many suffering from severe malnutrition and starvation.

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Our Ministry

This ministry helps people meet their chief need for a Savior, while also helping to meet the critical physical needs of hunger, poor substandard housing, shortage of water, lack of schools and education, lack of churches and pastor sponsorship. We offer general economic, healthcare, and emergency relief. To date we have helped feed tens of thousands of hungry people with hundreds of tons of food.

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We have developed a mission trip prayer journal to use during your trip. We encourage you to print this out and review before the trip, and then use as a journal during your trip.

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Who Can Volunteer?

Anyone with the desire to minister to hurting people in another culture can volunteer! Experience is helpful but not required. The ability to speak Spanish would be a plus, but we always have interpreters who assist in our work. Each team spends about a week in country ministering to the Nicaraguan people in some of the more remote villages.If you are interested in learning more, please contact us to discover if you can become part of this wonderful work.