Hello everyone, I am starting up a new adventure here in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. I will just add to the existing blog to keep it simple.
It all started when Dustin Holliday, the head of the mission board at Christian Fellowship Church in Virginia, told me that they were looking into expanding their missions vision into agriculture. He asked me if I would be willing to come back to Puerto Cabezas for a year to work in Betania with the subsistence farmers. I of course took the offer, so here I am, sitting in Pastor Earl's house blogging about the trip.
I arrived Saturday, and my greeting from the kids in the orphanage made me feel right at home; as soon as I crossed the fence that separates my house from the orphanage compound a big group of kids came running towards me yelling my name. All the guys in the discipleship were excited to see me as well; it is so nice to be back in the swing of things.
The idea for this year is to develop a large piece of land directly behind Betania, specifically looking at introducing new crops (especially Nitrogen fixing, green manure type crops), developing other methods of getting nutrients into the soil, and teaching the farmers to replicate what we do on this land in their farmland along the river. Today I will be heading out to Betania to meet with my good friend Nestor; he is the farmer that I worked with throughout the three and a half months I was here last fall. We will be discussing the goals and hopes for development of the land, which families might be willing to participate, and of course we will be catching up on what has been going on in each others lives the six months that I have been gone.
I will keep it short this time because I am very busy with everything that is going on, but I will be updating again soon.
Thanks for the support,
God Bless, Dios Te Bendiga, Dawan Man Mumbaia,
Austin
