Welcome

This is the beginning of my sharing about the travels that the Lord has allowed me to Nicaragua. The point of the travels was/is to visit and hopefully support and encourage our church family that moved there with the hopes of starting a church in San Juan de Cusmapa, Nicaragua.

First, introductions.....

This is outside Fatima's Mom's house in Cusmapa. Fatima is in the red t shirt. her Mom, Dona(Donya) Lupe is carrying a pot filled with small bags of a homemade soy drink. She is heading out to sell them around town.
Two of their boys are in the door way, Owen and True.

Ricardo, Fatima's first child. he is sitting next to the stove in Dona Lupe's house. More on the stove later. He is heading to Iowa for the Fall Semester of his Sophomore year at High School. Ricardo plays football and this is his chance to play. He stays with his grandparents, Tom's folks.

 Fatima, cooking a big pot of beans in the side yard at the house they lived in while Tom worked on a school building in Nagarote.

 Tom doing something he loves to do, BBQ. He put on a Family Day for the crew that was working on the school building.

Their younger kids, from left to right.. Owen (5), True (7), and Uwenses (8). The boy on the end is our son, Timmy. This is taken in their back yard in Nagarote.
Now the family has moved up to Cusmapa and is building their house. Tom finished the school building in Nagarote in May.