When I heard about University of Pennsylvania bringing “Technology-Based Learning to Nicaraguan Community School for Children of Coffee-Farm Workers”, I couldn’t help but cringe and feel sympathy for the small community that is about to be a subject in a research project.
There is a misguided, well-intentioned belief in the Western world that whatever is good [...]

It’s not every day you experience one of those profound “aha!” moments - that special moment when a problem’s solution becomes crystal clear. Rarer still is one of those aha! moments where the solution is so perfect it makes you wonder why it wasn’t done sooner.
That was how I felt when I heard about Empowerment [...]

Here is a collection of photos from the Verbo school during the 2007 mission to Bluefields. I will update this gallery with more photos as I process them. You will be able to find these under the “Photos & Videos” link in the left-hand column.
I will try harder to publish the photos I have taken [...]

Ed discovers Connor’s ticklish spot.
Thursday Oct 9:
Tonight Pastor Ed and Ligia came over to my home and finally met my wife and son. This was a meeting I’ve been praying for for a long time and it has finally happened. Since my wife has never been to Bluefields, and not likely to any time soon, [...]

Every morning I would wake up early and have my coffee while standing on the front porch of our house. At 6:15am in the morning, the temperature is comfortable and the streets are quiet. I would stand there breathing in the fragrant air, and listening to the unseen birds and the distant car driving by.
But [...]

Each day when we were in Bluefields we spent it doing construction, administering the locals, or doing an eye glasses clinic. While the work was draining in the warm and humid weather, the daily reminders of the needs in this little city erodes the soul. Poverty, joblessness, addiction, teenage pregnancy, domestic abuse…
In face of such [...]

On the 4th day of our Mission in Bluefields, we had the opportunity to go to the Rock Quarry (for more information about the Quarry, see this post I wrote earlier).
What impacted me the most was the children who lived and worked within the quarry. It’s very difficult to see children break rocks so that [...]