On Sunday morning, January 23rd, after an excellent breakfast of rice and beans, and other sundry items, the team boarded a van and drove from Los Cedros into Managua to attend church at Verbos church, a native Nicaraguan church.
Our team slipped into the back and found seats, settling down to enjoy the lively worship of these Christians at these extremely lively Spanish speaking church in Nicaragua. Team member Rick Jahnke described the music as "energetic and spirited". Cleve Curry said the music was "loud, with everyone involved in it. You didn't just see people sitting there watching the world go by. It was exciting, just to watch it, even if you couldn't understand the words. It was thrilling!" And team member Jeff Parks stated that the worship was "an exciting place to get to go, to worship in a country in which he had never been. I enjoyed seeing how they worshiped compared to how we worship."
The church was packed with all ages, and throughout the service the youngest of the children paid just as much attention to the ministers sermon as did the oldest. All listened as the minister preached from Isaiah.
The team thoroughly enjoyed this high powered, overflowing church, with music and preaching that was vibrant, alive and powerful.
Six years ago, in January of 2005, one of our team members, Reverend Stan Irvin of the First United Methodist Church of Carrier Mills, preached at this church through an interpretor. That was on the first mission trip to Nicaragua by the ten original team members from Wesley United Methodist Church, when Stan was a minister at Wesley. It was as amazing of a worship experience then as it was now!
Following church the team sacrificed and had an outstanding lunch at a Managua restaurant, which had extremely well prepared and good food.
The team then drove to a market in Managua, for the chance to purchase a few souvenirs, prior to returning to Los Cedros.
At Los Cedros the team reorganized personal belongings, relaxed, visited and got to know one another, ate dinner, and enjoyed the warm 90 degree weather and the pleasant tropical breeze prior to bedding down for the next days work.
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