Mandy - Nicaragua Updates

Why My Ministry Has Already Started

By on September 29, 2016 Track: Compassion - Justice Region: Latin America

"Two years of ministry in Nicaragua." In the weeks and months leading up to GoWeek (the support-raising training I attended in August with GoCorps), this thought crossed my mind many times. My final semester of college in Illinois, my entire summer of ministry in Puerto Rico, that's what I thought to myself every time GoCorps or International Teams came to mind. Before GoWeek, I was under the impression that my ministry would most likely be starting in or around February. At GoWeek, I initially learned that February 28th was the day that I would be starting my ministry. Boy, was I wrong. You… Read more >>

I Have Decided...

By on August 31, 2016 Track: Compassion - Justice Region: Latin America

...to follow Jesus. Last December, I attended the Urbana Missions Conference in St. Louis, Missouri. Primarily, I was there to work as a missions mobilizer, but when I was not working, I got the opportunity to attend several different sessions of teaching and worship. One night, the focus of this time was the persecuted church. That night we sang the song "I Have Decided to Follow Jesus." However, it wasn't the normal, blissful, safe version I had grown up singing in church and in college. Nor was it the version I had sung in the deep selva (jungle) of Ecuador in English, Spanish, and Waorani… Read more >>