Step 1.  Take $40 (raised by your daughters) and find a family in need, intending to buy them food and toys.

Step 2.  Walk in to see a family of 8 living in a “house”  (pictured below) and sleeping on a board.  Notice the roaches in the one pot of cornmeal they own.  See the bugs on the floor and the lice in the children’s hair.  Notice the distended bellies (caused by parasites) of 3 adorable little boys.

Step 3.  Hear the stories of abuse and abandonment.  Think about your own children - one exactly the same age as one in front of you.  Excuse yourself to cry and pray near the road. 

Step 4:  Take all children to the store in town.  Buy them beds, mattresses, food, clothes, and toys.  Spend almost $800 over the $40 you brought.

Step 5:  Share the gospel and give them over to the care of Jesus and your Nicaraguan Co-laborer, leaving a piece of your heart with them.

Step 6:  Come home and hug your kids very tightly, then give a 5 minute speech on gratefulness when one of them (who shall remain nameless) complains about a meal. 

One of our major goals at GraceWorks is to train local pastors to evangelize and teach their own people.  We know they can not only minister to people we will never meet, but they will do it far more effectively than we ever could.  They just need the training and tools!

This trip to Nicaragua saw hundreds of pastors and church leaders being taught basic doctrines and evangelism methods.  They were provided with study materials and sent back to their congregations armed with more Bible knowledge than many would ever have gotten in a lifetime.

Last July, GraceWorks Global was able to provide a whole-house water filtration unit installation for a government-run maternity house in Diriamba.  This facility cares for poverty-stricken and high-risk expectant mothers and their newborns. 

We were excited to provide safe water for them, knowing it would prevent illness and infection in both moms and babies.  However, because they are connected to municipal water, even though their filtered water is clean and safe, it is not always available.  They are subject to frequent water shut-offs and shortages.  

In cooperation with the Mayor of Diriamba, and through the generosity of our partners, we are now in process of installing a water reservoir so these sweet ladies and adorable babies are never without safe water. 

Upcoming Opportunities

Undisclosed Location:  Summer:  Please contact us for information on the ministry happening here.

Nicaragua:  November: We have been invited to speak at a national conference for teenagers and can’t pass up the opportunity to teach 800 kids for an entire weekend!  We will be giving the gospel, of course, as well as teaching on  requested topics; but we would also like to provide full Bibles to all 800.  Through a Nicaraguan contact we can get full Spanish Bibles in-country for only $3 per copy!  Of course, this still translates to $2400 but God has already raised up nearly half of that amount.  If you would like to contribute to the completion of this project, please see insert.