There is a new neighborhood growing nearby in Matagalpa. It is on government petitioned property (meaning people who couldn’t afford land asked the gov. for property), and made up of very poor families. This is the area where we visited the school with the college group from Edmond in May and gave away school supplies and did skits.

Homes made of plastic are the norm in Lucia Mantia

In July, Santos, a member of the church who lives in this neighborhood started reaching out to the youth of the area through boxing lessons. Many of them starting coming to church on Sunday mornings and David starting visiting them to have Bible studies.

Brother Santos

During the month of July, David was in charge of teaching Sunday Bible class, and he focused on the works of the church and our responsibilities as Christians, mainly evangelism and outreach. The members began to brainstorm and decided they wanted to meet every Saturday morning to work. We started with six groups of three. Half evangelized in Lucia Mantia, and half visited members. After a few weeks they decided to focus on Lucia Mantia, and we spent several Saturdays evangelizing and inviting families to services.

Evangelistic Team

Last week we decided we needed to give something to the community, so we held a kids class. The men asked me to prepare for 15-20 kids. When we arrived many of the members kept wanting me to go with them to invite kids (no one knew we were going to have class in the community), but I was hesitant. They were worried about too few kids, and I was worried about too many! We ended up with over 80 kids who learned about creation - how special we are, how God cares for us, and how we need to care for His creation. We also did several crafts, including an activity sheet for the days of creation (full of stickers, glitter and drawing), drawing the garden of Eden, making star cereal necklaces, dolls for the creation of humans, and leaf imprints on paper with crayons. Needless to say it was a loaves and fishes situation!!

Star necklaces

Carmen passing out activities

We look forward to being able to do more work in this neighborhood!

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