God is with you through your friends that help you. I don´t know if that´s written down somewhere, or something I just made up,, but it´s true, no matter how you turn it. Mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally, it´s all about love. People that love and are loved have better lives and live longer. We believe […]
Author: Dean Peters
ARISE
Lementations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. Have you ever notiched that God […]
Finding God in All We Do
Today I helped the vegetable guy pull his hand cart,, (he´s like 1/3 my weight, and around 70 years old. Man, I pushed that thing for about a mile,, wheeeeeeeeze!!!! i will never look at a vegetable handcart pusher with the same light. They are in superb olympic condition. Their work is so arduous it […]
Hope and Change
Although we are trying to spit in the eye of conformity and status quo, we also are striving to be radically transparent and accountable. We are rejecting conformity and status quo because, well, it´s a waste of time and resources. We are trying to become radically transparent and accountable because that does work IF the […]
God’s Abundant Love
When I had a real feeding center here years ago, a young lady always showed up, completely bare naked. She slept in a garbage pile around the corner. We had children in the feeding center so i couldn’t let her in but we always gave her a plate of food and she’d listen to our […]
“Blanket Lender”
Once when I was in the mountains with heathen Indians, I learned a valuable lesson about how Jesus is.The mountains, even in the tropics, are freezing (so it seems )at night. Communication at any level was almost impossible. These Indians spoke through their noses and were NOT Christians as far as I could tell. I […]
99 and The 1
An interesting week a here in Managua Nicaragua I have been dwelling on the good shepherd leaving the 99 to find the one. The 99 are good, they’re taken care of. It’s that ONE that worries me. IF you are ‘intolerant’ you will not go after that one. Winnie and I believe that the greatest, […]
Brandon’s Continuing Miracle
8 year old Brando got hit by a taxi 8 months ago. When help arrived he had no pulse nor was he breathing. He was resuscitated, and taken to Lenin Fonseca. They said he wasn’t going to survive, had a hole in his head, broken femur as well as many other broken bones and internal […]
Day to Day Living in Nicaragua
Our Italian Restaurant, “Rosticceria Roma” finally opened. It is a source of income for my family as well as a way to feed the kids in the dump and on the street. Also, and most importantly we are providing jobs and moral/spiritual structure to the girls we raise as well as OTHERS. It’s all about […]
A New Year in Nicaragua
Guadalupe is the resettlement community of the dump. They moved everyone about 300 yards outside the dump. They have new adobe houses but only make about 75 cents a day. They have to pay utilities plus food for an average of five to six mouths, so the parents have to do real juggling acts. Immediate […]