Journey to Leon Highlights

Saturday, March 15^th was one of the best days I have had in Nicaragua for a few specific reasons. This past weekend Kristie and I took a trip to Leon, Nicaragua to visit Voice of Hope ministry.  This ministry is directed by Mr. Charlie Brown one of the men I had met on the plane from Houston to Nicaragua. During our conversation on the plane we talked about what each other were doing in Nicaragua. I shared about me teaching and he shared about Voice of Hope. During that conversation he extended an offer to come up for a weekend to check out the ministry in Leon. So this was the weekend we did just that! Because I experienced so much in a short period of time I have decided to break up the things that I experienced and blog about them individually. Here I will share with you the two reasons that made this weekend one of the best.

Reason #1 for those who know me well you know that I am deeply passionate about water and working towards pursuing missions with WATER. In other words I would love to help provide clean water to those in need in order to share with them The Living Water: the gospel. Saturday part of this vision came true! In one of the remote poor villages were were touring I saw a well that had been installed by the mission organization Living Water International (a Christian ministry I have been in contact with). I got to pump water out of one of the wells with some kids from the village.

This is one of four wells I got to see in the outskirts of Leon. This was part of the dream come true! (Btw the taxi in the back is ours. These people barely have food and water, let alone cars.)

Reason #2 while in Leon and going out to dinner I saw a group of students from non-other than Baylor University! One of the girls in the restaurant walked in with a T-shirt that Baylor Outdoor Adventure had made for an event. (This was the department I worked for at Baylor). It was surreal! I took a Sic 'Em picture with a handful of girls from the group. We got to talk about their trip here in Nicaragua as part of a medical mission trip during their spring break (they were all Baylor pre-med students). They asked me about my journey in Nicaragua and so I shared with them about what I am doing here and also about my vision for water ministry. I then got to pray over them and for the Lord to use their experiences here to inspire them in what they are pursing back home at Baylor. This was a special moment. All this was in the heart of Leon with large beautiful cathedrals.

It always makes me feel at home to do a Sic 'Em! I got to pray over these girls too.

The second oldest Cathedral in all of Central America.

I would also like you all to watch this video about Voice of Hope. It will give you an image to some of the things I got to see and experience. I posted the video before this post.