Your SBCC Women’s Mission team arrived in Nicaragua yesterday, welcomed by warm weather, the most amazing Southerly breeze and more smiles than we could have ever dreamt of. After we unloaded our bags at the team center, we walked the short distance to the orphanage to meet the children. There, we were joined by Eddy Morales and Dick Anderson of ORPHANetwork. Eddy and our translators took us on a walk through the Vera Cruz community located right outside the orphanage. We had a VIP escort by many of the children who live in Vera Cruz while Eddy shared with us a little about the history of Nicaragua, the Vera Cruz community and the orphanage.
To really get the local feel, we ate a typical orphanage dinner the staff and kids – rice and beans with plantain and pan fried cheese. This was a very moving experience for many of the women as they watched as the kids shared their dinner with their guests.
The highlight of the day was getting to be apart of the Youth night where we were treated to a concert performance by the kids. They have been taking music classes and it was a memorable experience to see them using the gifts God has given them to make such beautiful praise.
It was a long day of travel and getting our feet firmly planted here in our new home for the next 5 days. We went to bed exhausted...the best kind of exhausted there is...exhausted from being exactly where you are meant to be doing exactly what you were meant to do.
