Weeks Three, Four and Five update

What a busy couple of weeks we've had!  Open Eyes Ministry had a team here from Knoxville and we got to spend a week with them delivering food boxes and sharing the Gospel in a number of very poor villages outside of Granada.  We've been able to lead dozens of people to Christ, and to see people healed!  We work with local pastors before going into each of the villages, so that we can identify those most in need and also so that the new believers can be plugged into a faith family.  After delivering food and ministering, we would invite the villagers to service in the village churches in the afternoons.  How rewarding to see new converts and new friends come to church in the afternoons - and to see the churches packed to standing room only!  Talk about fruit!!

I've included several pictures from our outings.  People often ask me what the littles do while we're in the field.  Well, Elliott tries her best to communicate with the kids we encounter, and she loves them with all her heart.  Cade usually chases the pigs and chickens around.  ;-)  And Abel rides on mommy's hip, of course.  But, I have to say, it's endearing to see the way the families we encounter really warm up to us when they see the little ones.  Many of them say they haven't seen blonde hair before.  Just by virtue of their littleness, their smiles, and their shiny mops, they are helping us win souls!  

I mentioned in our last post that Sean and the boys were visiting a village that was on a tiny island only accessible by boat.  The island has no electricity or running water.  The last several pictures above show the guys on the island.  One of the churches we are working with here is attempting to plant a church on this island.  

In an earlier post, I showed some pictures of the boys visiting a village that is accessed by putting the truck on a barge-type pulley and being pulled across Lake Nicaragua.  That village is called Malacatoya. We will be working a lot in Malacatoya this week with the Webers and a team that just arrived today from New Orleans.  

How can you be praying for us?

• Pray that we will see fruit in our efforts at the village of Malacatoya this week.  
• Pray for the island church plant
• Pray for our Spanish-speaking abilities.  ;-)  We're all actually communicating pretty well, but Elliott is starting to get frustrated by the language barrier.  She loves the little ones she encounters, and wants so much to be able to talk to them.  She spends most of the day speaking the little Spanish she knows over and over and over.  It's pretty cute.