Through your support, we have been able to train six new pastors who will start five new EFI International School of Ministry programs in areas outside of Managua. These new schools will then equip an additional one-hundred plus leaders and ministers helping the country of Nicaragua experience a new depth and knowledge in the Lord. In the month of October, we will have the opportunity to talk with a secular university and potentially a prison about their interest in the ISOM training program. These opportunities will impact many more.
Pastor Osvaldo Bonilla with his wife, Rossy, are pictured above with Mark. Osvaldo is an overseer of four churches and the president of the pastors’ association in the department of Chenandega. He has been very instrumental in helping us connect with pastors that are now partnering with us to set up ISOM Schools in his department.
Pictured to the right, Pastor Juan Pineda’s church which will serve as our ISOM location in the department of Leon. We have needs for video projectors, portable screens, blank DVDs and DVD players to use in our new locations.
SHARING GOD’S HEART THE CROSSROADS WAY 
We recently had the privilege of working together with a mission team from Crossroads Church in Spartanburg, S.C. They provided quality ministry and brought many practical items as gifts for the people and places in which they ministered. They truly fulfilled the scriptures of Matthew 25 which says, “I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink…..I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me….” In Matthew 25, Jesus says that He identifies with those suffering and in need. Feeding and sharing love with orphans, preaching in a local Nicaraguan prison, (pictured to the right, pastor Dave from Crossroads preaching in a local Nicaraguan prison) ministering to over one-hundred children in the Velez Paiz Children’s Hospital, ministering to over eighty women at the House of Hope prostitute recovery home, hosting a women’s meeting at a local Nicaraguan church, sponsoring and hosting a time of ministry and lunch for close to one-hundred children in a poor barrio community, and installing plastic roof coverings for over fifteen homes in a local Nicaraguan community are some of the incredible expressions of the heart of God that the Crossroads Church mission team from Spartanburg, S.C. expressed to the people of Nicaragua this summer. They and their church have made a lasting impact in the country of Nicaragua.
Pictured below: Crossroads mission team members minister care, love, food, & Bible lessons to children and adults in barrio communities and at The House of Hope ministry session.
We had a wonderful time working alongside the E.C. youth this summer. Our children especially enjoyed spending time with their dearly missed buddies from home. Thank you for ministering to us and please know we surely love and miss you guys and hope to see you in the future! (below are a few pictures)
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