Nicaragua & El Ayudante

A quick update on El Ayudante:
We now have 2 team houses on the property in Leon. The medical clinic is completed on the property and medical teams are needed! There are currently 20 precious children in the orphanage, with more expected any day. We have 45 teams scheduled for 2006 and are scheduling for 2007 now. (There are still some weeks available this year in the fall.) We are concentrating our efforts in the communities surrounding Leon, especially helping the schools with construction and school supplies. We continue to work closely with local pastors in helping to equip their churches. We are providing assistance in the areas of well drilling, water purification, medical care, ministry in the dump, and the list goes on and on. Our staff in Leon just keeps getting better and better. Our Methodist missioner, Juan Carlos, is just having a tremendous response in Ruben Dario. A lot of our UMVIM teams are working with him. He's having 3 worship services each week, with sometimes over 100 in attendance. It's exciting!
We are expanding to Matagalpa, about an hour north east of Leon, and 1 1/2 hours from Matagalpa. We have been given some land on a beautiful mountain on a coffee plantation and are planning to build a team house there. This area is completely untouched as far as outside help is concerned and the needs are tremendous.
We have a few teams going to Matagalpa in 2006 to help get things going, working with some wonderful people there and staying in a hotel. We will build the team house as God provides the funds.
Our web site continues to be a wonderful source of information for folks: http://www.nicamissions.com/.
Thank you for all your office has done to help this ministry! It's amazing to see what God has done for the people of Nicaragua through so many volunteers!

Daphne MosesPastor of Caring MinistriesNorthside UMC2571 N. Highland, Jackson, Tn 38305731-668-0617