Day 7

After a night in Columbia MD, the fourteen member week two Nicaragua Medical Mission Team flew to Managua, Nicaragua where they spent the night at the Best Western across from the airport. Today they met up with six members of the week one team and their week two missionary Sandy Carter at Verbo church where they participated in spirit filled worship. The members of the church actually dance in the isles because they are so filled with the Holy Spirit.

After lunch the 20 member team headed for the Jinotega orphanage on a school bus. The trip that took 4 hours last year is expected to take 6 hours this year because of the deterioration of the roads to this mountain location over the last year. Tomorrow they will hold their first medical clinic. Since the doctors in Nicaragua have been on strike since November, there are many more sick people who need medical attention. You are asked to pray that the team will be a blessing to the many people they will serve.

Four members of the week one team will be returning today: Pastor Tom Jacobs, Lefty McIntyre, Wendy Albor and Jan Hill. When you see them ask them about their time with Amanda Vandeman Guitterez and their experience handing out uniforms & school supplies to the children receiving the school scholarships in addition to their work at the sports camp.

Note: Due to the remote location of the orphanage in Jinotega there is no internet service and very limited phone service. As we receive updates via phone we will update this site. In the meantime, please be assured that the team will be safe and happy serving the sick during the day and interacting with the children at the orphanage during the evenings.

"How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live......Love to be true, has to hurt" Mother Teresa in her acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize

She asked the committee to cancel the dinner they had planned in her honor, and use the money it would have cost to "feed four hundred children for a year"