Because We Care Ministries

Nica News 4/16/2011

Thursday morning as I stood outside Casa De Shelly and looked out over the farm and marveled at all that God had done there over the past 7 months Mama Maria came out to say good-bye. I could sense something else was going on in her heart other than just saying good-bye. She began to share how amazing it was to see all the pastors on their knees praying for each other. Over the past 3 months we have been teaching these men about the importance of prayer and taught them the importance that Jesus put on prayer. During the week we introduced the pastors to “Operation World” and led them in joining with other Christians around the world in praying for one specific people group. Beginning today Mama Maria is receiving the e-mails from “Operation World” and calling the radio station where Pastor Santos will announce which people group to pray for that day. So now, not only the pastors in Somotillo will be praying for certain people groups each day but they will be training their church families to listen to the radio at noon each day and join the world in pray for a particular people group. Isn’t GOD amazing……
Please pray for Pam and I as we will be returning to Nicaragua on Friday with a team of youth from FBC Roanoke. IHL, Donald and Pammie

On April 16, 2011 / NicaNews

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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.

Church Resources

Here is a link to download a video file that you can show in your church to introduce our ministry and share about the work we are doing in Nicaragua. Right-Click here and choose save to download the video file to your computer. The video is also located on Vimeo.

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.

Download our Mission Trip Prayer Journal

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.