Thursday, October 24, 2013

an up-river trip planned...

After 3 days of hard rain, we are hoping for some clearer weather for the weekend... A tremendous opportunity has opened up for us to go up-river with a group of local medical people. This is a work of the Moravian Church in Bluefields...they have been here since the 1800's. They go every other month and God had us here and got us connected to them just in time for this trip...

We need to be at the dock at 5:00 a.m. Friday to board a panga... a 24' long, 5' wide open speed boat that can carry 20 people. We will be going to several villages up the Matagalpa River. It will take 5 hours to get to the first village. We were told to bring water and food for 3 days and to be prepared to sleep on the floor, hopefully in a building...plus mosquito repellant, mosquito nets, and rubber boots, and of course there will be no bathrooms. I think this will be the Nicaraguan version of primitive camping.

We have some specific prayer requests:
  • for good weather (the weather station says 60% rain through Monday)
  • Donna has a bad cold and Dan has some intestinal problems...please pray we will both be feeling great by Friday a.m. 
  • that we will be able to really be a help
I'm putting a couple of pictures in from a friend of ours to help give you an idea of what we will probably be seeing and the type of boat we will be taking. We will be gone from Friday morning through Sunday afternoon.

Thanks so much for lifting us up... Dan and donna






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