We met on Sunday night as a team to have dinner and our last meeting before flying south for Nicaragua.
Dan, Gail, Ilana, Meghan, Andrew, Kylie, Vielka, Tyler, Matthew
We met for dinner first at Amelia’s Restaurant in Redwood City for some great Central American Cuisine featuring pupusas and tamales. After enjoying the salsa and food we returned to the church to meet the Van Demans. They are the parents of Amanda Gutierrez who is one of the missionaries we will work closely with down in Managua. They answered questions and told us more about what to expect. We will also take a suitcase of supplies to their family and some other supplies to El Salero (the salt shaker) Ministry there.
One of the small ideas that we are excited to bring down there is a photo printer that we hope to buy and bring down to take pictures of the kids for them to keep. With a generous portion of art supplies that were donated we can make frames for the pictures and mount them on art sticks as handles. Pictures seem to be fun for kids from 3 to 23 (and above).
Lastly for this post, we were reminded at our meeting that we are to be conduits for God’s power and love. We are just the pipe. But we are the pipe that God uses to deliver his love, power, encouragement and blessings to other. While electricity and water exist without pipes, their most desired and common form is when they are delivered to us via pipe. May we be the pipe that brings blessings.
-Dan
MPPC: Nicaragua 