Veteran missionaries Will and Moose will be on the ground in Hondura before the end of the month. Travel to Nicaragua is of course not safe at the moment. However, it’s likely that our Nicaraguan friends will venture over to Honduras to visit.
Please keep our trip in prayer, as it’s the first time Mel’s protege’s will be on the ground without him. The mission we’re leaving in God’s hands. We will be working some at Mama Tara’s Miskito Orphanage. Furthermore, the team can get into surrounding villages to visit and follow up with previous relationships. Whether it’s food, water, faith or medicine there’s no doubt that God has planted us here for a reason.
Should you feel led to join us on a mission in the future, we’re prepared with all of the vaccine schedules, packing lists, and bible studies to prepare you. No pressure, we ask for your prayers first and foremost. We’d love to have your help. You can also help fund the Miskito people with seeds and clean water on our donations page.
UPDATE ON HONDURAS AND NICARAGUA!
The first part of delivering services in Honduras and continuing services in Nicaragua is now complete. God moved in incredible ways to make things happen at a pace above and beyond our expectations. Though we felt overwhelmed in moments, He delivered in His precise timing over and over again.
Nicaragua
Honduras
We were able to provide 10, 000 pounds of rice seed to eat immediately (5,000 pounds) and seed to plant (5,000 pounds) to the 200 families in Sirsirtara.
We were able to provide 1,500 pounds of rice seed for each of the remote villages of Wampusirpi and Krausirpi that had to be delivered by canoe and will have arrived by the time you read this. Again, the 60 families in each of those villages received seed to eat now and seed to plant. (Pictures attached)
We were also able to provide 1,000 pounds of rice to eat and 1,000 pounds rice seed to plant for forty families in each of the to the Nicaraguan villages of Kisalaya and Uhri. Uhri is a new village for us in Nicaragua.
We also received a request for 4,000 pounds of rice seed to plant and 2,400 pounds of corn seed to plant in the very remote Nicaraguan village of Tuburus, with whom we have been working since 2017. Their situation is extreme and, like the other villages we serve in Nicaragua and Honduras, their rainy and dry seasons are being affected by possible climate issues. Mike Jones, SALT’s agriculture manager, posted an email request for funds to meet this unexpected need and, within 24 hours, we had the funds to meet this entire need, which is being meet now.
Tony Llorente, the food cooperative chairman of Tuburus and who is fluent in English (all of the villages we serve have developed viable, working food cooperatives) wrote SALT a letter of appreciation that we received last week. I’m including the closing paragraphs of the letter so you can see the depths of the relationship the people we serve have with our faithful God. Here is what Tony wrote:
“We as steadfast stewards of the Word of God must pay close attention to all that’s happening around us. We’re being tested and we must remain loyal to our God. This may not be the end yet, but the COVID/19 and the recent uprisings around the world added to the food shortages caused by climate alterations are lucidly the signs that mark the coming of our Lord. If these signs are not the end – and they are not yet according to the scripture (Matthew 24:8) – these events are clearly historic, and we must make sure our faith remains unshakeable.
Thank you for helping us in difficult times! This is time to be more united than ever and the Word of God needs to be spread more broadly with every little action we take. We thank you so much for being the lights of God to our lives, for lifting us up and for giving us food when we have needed the most.
We will surely reach out to more families in the future, and we know that with God’s faithful help, our program will become more sustainable, opening doors and opportunities for more brothers and sisters.
God bless you all for your contribution to this program!”
In closing, thanks to all of you for your prayer and financial support that is positively affecting thousands of people in Nicaragua and Honduras. What you are doing is giving life to many and strengthening their faith as they watch God – not SALT – provide.
