This past week was spent with visitors from the Grand Rapids home office. Kris Vander Stelt, Greg Elzinga, Matt Van Til, Doug Seebeck (Partners Worldwide), Sandy Johnson, and Rev. Jerry Dykstra (CRCNA). Accompanying the group from Michigan was Joel Huyser (soon to be moving back to Nicaragua after being state-side most of the past year).
The visit began with an overview of work in the Nehemiah Center. Several visits were made to see PW partnerships in the Managua area, however, the day that stood out was our trip to AMC's El Progresso farm.
As many of you know, there is a drivable road into El Progresso now....... at least in the dry season. Not so fortunate (driving) for our Grand Rapids visitors, as after walking 1 mile into the farm, they had enough mud on them to grow a good crop of corn!! and then it began to rain...... actually, it cleaned everyone up a bit!
While the individual partner farms were being visited, the statement heard many times was a variation of, "you started with nothing? .....and now you have all this?? Incredible!".
On another note, the really big news is the fact that the first litter of piglets were born two week ago in El Progresso! 8 healthy piglets scurrying between the sow, and the community center where we had group discussions with partner farmers. (got to do something about the sow pen..... they squeeze though the fence!).
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your big part in this!
Blessings,
David and Wendy
1 comment:
Yeah! Love the blog. I will create a link to it for our church website soon. Cute piglets too! You are in our thoughts and prayers.
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