Edificasion

The first two months of 2022 have come and gone. We hope it was a good beginning for you and yours. As anticipated, it has been a bumpy beginning for us in the midst of so many changes. Jeruahel started school in January at NCAI,…

As we say goodbye to 2021, this seems like a fitting title. We celebrated both Jeruahel's kindergarten graduation and Jeremy's 6th grade graduation on Thanksgiving day. Jeruahel burst with excitement at seeing her friends and teachers for the first time in a few months (after…

¡Feliz Navidad! Merry Christmas from Managua, Nicaragua! We hope and pray that you and yours are able to focus on the Peace, Hope, Joy and Love of this season as we remember the gift of God through His Son, Jesus Christ, and the new life…

A beach trip we took two weeks before we got Covid I re-read my last post to get ready to write this one. It was evident I tried to get a lot of information into that post, so I'm going to slow down a little…

Greetings! We hope you are able to know the joy the of the LORD, even in the midst of such turmoil around the world. Turmoil has certainly surrounded us this summer. We've experienced difficulty in seemingly every aspect of life. Yet through it all, the…

Here in Nicaragua, it feels like Spring is upon us. We have had an uncharacteristically "cold winter", though the use of those two words in this tropical climate seems out of place. Just a month ago reports came in of an actual freezing temperature at the highest peak in the northern mountains of Nicaragua! This was big news. The day's temperature scarcely varies more than 4 degrees Fahrenheit from the average, but we even had one day that was 10 degrees below average! The weather here has definitely been different from what I've been accustomed to in my 16 years in Nicaragua. As Easter week approaches, the sun has finally begun to scorch again, though I can't say we missed it.

Greetings in the Peace of Christ. We are excited to report that we made our Phase 2 fundraising goal! We eclipsed the $16,000 mark with a little room to spare, which is great considering that material prices have gone up since the initial quotes we received in November. Thankfully, I discovered that we won't actually need any machinery to clear the land, so our budget remains the same. One builder said we would need to do some earth moving, but others have confirmed that won't be necessary. Our primary land clearing tools will be machetes!

What a joy to share this news with you! After sporadically looking at the real estate market for the past couple years, we gained a good understanding of how the market has changed over that time. We officially purchased this land on November 19, and are looking to raise $16,000 by February to begin construction. We feel tremendous peace about this purchase and all that the LORD has for us in this new beginning.