My first impression of Nicaragua

So this is my first time in a third world country.

I've suffered all kinds of anxiety and sickness over the last 10 days simply not knowing what to expect once I left the US. The first place my mind goes isn't the great stories that I hear from people who have gone before me, it's the stuff I read about traveling to a foreign land on the Internet.
All the dos and dont's, all the customs of a culture, all the weird bugs and animals and as if that isn't enough how about terrorism, crime rate, drugs, abductions.... What the heck, why bother? I'll leave that up to someone else on the planet. My beautiful wife would say "you have not prepared for this trip at all". Little did she know, I had had been reading all kinds of small articles and was a bit frozen with fear.

I was excited about one thing; How this would transform my life and friendship with my great friend and mentor Bob and the other guys going on this trip. It's not that I don't care about people, it's just too easy to be pre occupied with fear and all the "what ifs" formentioned .

Once again God is just so good becuse I was totally wrong and fear needs to be removed from my vocab.... :)

The air is hot, the ground is tough as nails but the people are tender and beautiful. Most of all the gospel is having a great effect!

I've meet some of the biggest visionaries you could ever imagine who have spent YEARS following a vision God gave them to reach these people. Pastor Earl is the salt of the earth. The orphanage and the Verbo church are such a bright light in this community and being used by God in ways few would dare to ask for or pursue. I feel like I've been hanging out with an Apostle. So powerful yet so very, very humble.

Austin Fricker is my new hero... He has such passion for the people and potential succes of certain foods the natives can grow here he just works tirelessly to fine answers for some pretty big questions because he has such a passion for the people, and rightfully so. They are beautiful!

I just finished day one of our conference and it really feels like the Holy spirit is at work. We are teaching the principles of dicipleship, doing life, laughing, smiling... I'm so grateful I got to come...
I hope to bring my family back next year.

Please pray that we can continue with Gods full anointing. Some of these pastors are so gifted and could easily be the next Dale Moody or Billy Grahm. 

You don't don't know what Jesus is going to do! 

Isn't that awesome?