Some more pics

Bert's Service

Services for Bert Alexander will be held at

• Fellowship Bible Church
• 1051 Hogan Lane, Conway, AR
• Friday, April 14 11:00 am
  

Jack's Service

Memorial Services for Dr. Jack Logan will be held at

• Woodland Heights Baptist Church
• 4216 Prince Street, Conway, AR
• Thursday, April 13 @ 1:30

Donations can be made to the Jack Logan Nicaraguan Mission Fund in care of Fellowship Bible Church, 1051 Hogan Road, Conway, AR, 72032 or a charity of your choice.

3/5ths of the team is stateside

Well, Jim, Hope, and Myself are stateside once again. Jack and Bert will be back on Tuesday after they finish their extra excursion. Everything went great. Thanks for all of your prayers. They were felt. Please ask the Lord to keep Bert and Jack safe. Thanks for everything. I will post some more pics when it is not 2 am.

Estamos en Managua

I just wanted to let yall know that we are back in Managua. We just drove baqck from Juigalpa. The week went great! We are headed to get some dinner at the hotel resturaunt and unwind. Bert, Jack and Cairo are heading out to Lake Nicaragua tomorrow for some "relationship building with the locals"...Awwww who am I kidding? They are going fishing!

p.s. Tara our flight gets into LR " 10:49PM tomorrow night. it is Delta #1506

Thursday...and all is well in Juigalpa

It has been a good day. It has begun to heat up a little more the last day or two. The breeze is not near as consistent as it was. think it spoiled us. The institute is still going well. They Niccas (local nicaraguens) are still dedicated to the study and great students.

We are headed to Muan this afternoon/evening . We will be partaking in a thanksgiving feast with them in celebration of a woman that was very sick and Th LORD healed. It should be a lot of fun. It is such a beautiful village.

Your prayers are appreciated as there is only one more day left in the institute. Pray that we finish strong and that God works inspite of us. We trust that he will use this teaching to impact many lives. Thanks for everything.

-The Gringo's

Some new friends

I thought that I would show you some of our brothers and sisters down here...

One of the Pastors at the institute.









Our translators and mark.
Hector, Mark (missionary from the states), Melvin, and Cairo. We really enjoy the company of these guys. We have a lot of fun joking and working together.








Jim and Hope talking with Pastor Saturnino.

More from Wednesday

The week is going well. The weather has been warm but not intolerable thanks to a consistant breeze, which the locals tell me is not normal for the dry season here. It is actually cooler than we were anticipating. We are running between 75-100 people at the bible institute. The students at the institute are being very attentive and working hard. I don't think that I could find 100 people in conway that would come and sit in a crumy wooden chair in 90 degree hear under a pole barn and listen attentively all day to teaching abut the bible for a single day...let alone for an entire week. Their dedication both inspires and convicts me.

Jack and Hope have had good progress on the School front. They are set up to teach at both chirstian school and one of the local schools that we found last trip. This morning they went to an orphanage that is next to the camp where we are holding the bible institute and checked into doing some things there. There are a lot of possibilities. Hope has been working on her spanish. Jim tells everyone that she meets that she can speak spanish and to please help her practice. She is doing great! She did all of the translation when they went to the orphanage.

Tonight we are going to Pastor Saturnino's church here in Juigalpa and Jim is doing a baby dedication. Then tomorrow night we are going to Muan. It is the city up in the mountains where that cooked the Shoat(sheep/goat, aka Peligrew) for us last year. They say that they are going to fix another one. It should be wonderful!

On the topic of food...Hope managed to acomplish what Jack and I could not. She got Jim to eat "Juevos de Torro"!!!! I never thought that I would see the day. We all had some. It was pretty good. We had it as cerviche, maybe we will get it (them?) fried next time.

The hotel is nice and is working out well. We are actually eating breakfast right there at the hotel. We will not be coming back any skinnier that is for sure! We are eating well, having a lot of fun togeter and enjoying the fellowsip with our brothers and sisters in Nicaragua!

Thanks for the prayers keep them coming! Glorio de Dios!!!

Wenesday

Hope and Jack at the Hotel. I don't think that Hope likes this picture a whole lot...but she isn't here with me at the internet cafe. So oh well.









Melvin (translator), Chris, and Jim in the park after dinner enjoying the cooler Nicaraguen night.








Jim helping out with some dishes. (See Melanie he can do them!)








The Bible Institute on Tuesday.

Monday

Well we are in Juigalpa. Things are going great! We finished the first day of the institute today. We had around 75 people there, which is good considering the numbers generally build as the week goes on and word gets out. I mentioned that we could not use the camp that we had planned on using and we were going to be a new location...well I don´t know how many of you prayed and how you did, but when we got to juigalpa last night. The situation had been resolved and we are able to use the camp that we had planned on. It is a great set up so that was a huge blessing! Thanks!

Hope and Jack had a good great a day going to the schools. They went to the school that we had made contact with last time and the christian school as well. They established a great connection with the christian school and it looks like the planning for taching english down here is going very well. Continue to pray for them as they work in the schools.

Sunday Morning

Well it is sunday morning and we met up with the rest of our team at our hotel this morning. I tink that we all got a good night´s sleep and feel like new people today. We are about to head to the market at masaya and then on to Juigalpa where we will be for the rest of the week.

here are some pics from this morning. (if you click on the picture it will get bigger)

Bert, Jack, Mark (a missionary from Oklahoma that we became friends with last trip down here) and Jessica (Cairo, the head translator´s wife) sitting and getting caught up before breakfast.








Here is Bert looking well rested and ready to explore nicaragua.








I am spoiled right now b/c this hotel has interent in the lobby, but we won´t have that in Juigalpa. There are a few interent cafes that we will use. The trip is going great and we are all looking forward to getting out and about today.

We just found out that the camp we had planned on using for the bible institute got double booked and we are going yto be in a different location. I am sure that it will be more than suficient, but if you would please be in prayer that everything with the insititute would run smoothly and the success would continue. If simply changing the venue is the biggest obstacle then things are going pretty good.

Much love from Nicaragua.

p.s. Tara, I will actually try and get myself in a picture or two.

Saturday pics

The boys at LR Airport DARK and early at 4:15 AM.









This is April, the missionary that works with the street ladies in Managua, showing us the new construction on the House of Hope. House of Hope is a boarding house, vocational training, ministry for women leaving a life on the street. They are donig some really neat stuff and have some cool plans for the complex. Our visit with April and her husband Mike was very enjoyable and informative.






Jack, Jim, and Hope learning about the House of Hope.

We made it!

We are in Managua. The trip down was smooth. Hope met us at the gate in Atlanta. All the luggage got here. (praise the Lord) We are checking into the hotel as we speak. Just wanted to let yall know that we are now in Nicaragua safe and sound.

Trip Schedule

I wanted to post our schedule so yall could have an idea of what we would be doing when and know how to pray more specifically for the team.

• Saturday morning (3/25/06) we catch a flight out of Little Rock at 5:30 AM (woohoo).
• We fly through Atlanta and meet up with Hope and arrive in Managua around 1:00pm.
• Sat. afternoon we will get checked in at the hotel and then go meet with a lady named April that has a ministry to prostitutes and their children in Managua about future ministry possibilities.
• Sunday we will drive to Juigalpa, get checked into the hotel, and meet with Pastor Saturnino for last minute arrangements.
• Monday- Friday we will be teaching in the Bible Institue from 8:00-3:30 each day.
  
• Jack and Hope will also be lining things up in the school for future trips as well as making any other neccessary arangements.
• Saturday evening Jim, Hope, and Chris fly back home.
• Saturday- Tuesday Jack and Bert stay and build some relationships with the locals.
• Tuesday night Jack and Bert fly back home.

Please lift up the entire trip in your prayers. I can't wait to give you another update. Thanks.

Map of Nicaragua

Group email updates

I have created a group that will send an email to interested parties when I post to this blog. That way you can get the latest updates as I am able to post info while in Nicaragua. I you see an email from Beyond-Arkansas@googlegroups.com then just know that it is from me and I have added to this blog. I you would like to be added to this group email then go to http://groups.google.com/group/Beyond-Arkansas. Thanks for all the support.

March 06 Team

The team for the March trip is:

• Jim Wilson
• Jack Logan
• Chris Kear
• Burt Alexander
  
• Hope (Wilson) Davis

Jim, Burt, and Chris will be teaching in the Bible Institute. Jack and Hope will be working to line up things for future trips, such as teaching conversational english in the schools and making provisions for a larger missions team. Jack will also teach some in the Institute.

Oct. 05 Nicaragua Team

The FBC October 2005 Nicaragua Team.

41 degrees outside

Well as I sit here at my desk it is about 41 degrees outside and raining. It is all good though b/c in 5 days It will be warm and dry in Nicaragua. We are heading out "O-dark 30" this Saturday morning, 3/25/06. I will be posting updates etc. to this blog as much as possible, both while we are still stateside and while in Nicaragua. Thanks for the prayers and support!