Category: Uncategorized

In our planning with the Brazos de Amor, today’s purpose was to have fun with the staff and kids and to have a Goodbye Party (Despedida). Our day began with a traditional Nicaraguan weekend breakfast of nacatamales. They are different than a Mexican style tamale because of their filling – they have rice, meat, potato,…

Today was a full day here at Brazos de Amor. We had many team members in many different places and roles helping out and getting things done today. We started our day with our final devotional with the kids from our community program. Wes and Emilio led worship for us. Adele led a game with…

As the students learned about God resting on the seventh day yesterday in Community cares, the team got to experience its own type of rest on the seventh day of our trip! While quite not fully recovered, the whole team was well enough to join on an adventure to the Mirador (lookout) at Caterina, which…

This morning began with much uncertainty. Two team members were definitely down with a nasty stomach bug and several others were not feeling 100%. Emilio was well and so he headed off to the Staff Retreat – the second day for the second half of the Brazos staff. Our Community Program team today was small…

On todays agenda was errands in town, roof construction and the staff retreat. Early this morning Georgina and Emilio headed off with half of the Brazos staff for a day of retreat. Unlike previous years we were not responsible for content and had a Nicarguan women come and lead the staff through a day of…

It’s Monday – today were excited to begin working with the kids in Brazos de Amor’s Community Cares Program! The program is Brazos de Amor’s outreach to the local neighborhood children. These children live in an under-resourced community and Brazos de Amor provides educational enrichment (tutoring, computer and English classes) as well as a meal…

This morning our team was excited to attend church at La Viña Jinotepe. We enjoyed familiar worship songs in Spanish as well as a sermon by pastor Marta. After service we had a pre lunch snack of pan (bread) with pasta de pollo (chicken salad) with the members of La Viña. We were excited to…

Due to our flights to Managua arriving late at night, it was best for our team and the Brazos de Amor staff if we spend the night in Managua at the airport hotel. We woke to a morning in the tropics! The hotel property has buildings with rows of rooms separated by beautiful trees –…

After a week of crazy preparation – a last minute trip to Seattle for a lost passport and unplanned dental surgery, we were grateful to have our team intact as we started our journey. The trip started out with a very smoothly. Our planes were all on time, and our connection in El Salvador was…