God is COMPLETELY TRUSTWORTHY!
Just when I thought I couldn´t take another step, David and Beatrice (the two readable email addresses, [email protected] and [email protected] came aboard to help us with the 501C3 paperwork and to organize. Both are highly organized. Both are workers, not “suggesters”, have enough of those already. David´s specialty is marketing and social networking, Beatrice is […]
God, Soup Lines, Containers
Disconnection until Thursday, going to Costa Rica with family to raise funds for our ministry. We´ll have to communicate through God´s Email, over the next few days. (in other words, Prayer) I am disconnecting after I push SEND. I am taking my wife and kids into Costa Rica to raise funds for our ministry. We´ll be back […]
“The Fatherless”
God is Father to the Fatherless. (We just celebrated Father´s day here in Nicaragua, I don´t have a father so it´s kind of a vague concept for me. I just use it as another opportunity to worship Him.) It must be a million times harder for kids who´s fathers are negligent and abusive. We want […]
Battle Against Child Slavery
At Risk Children are those who can end up in child slavery because of poverty. (ie prostitution , gangs, life of crime) A good movie to watch to give you an idea is Slum Dog Millionaire, Winnie and I personally have worked with hundreds of kids like that over the past 15 years… actually […]
Snake Bite!
Payita, our co-worker of over 15 years got bit by a coral snake last Thursday when she was reaching for a rag. She is the woman on the left Please pray for her. I had studied snake bites in jungle warfare school, and in various survival courses. However to see the results of a snake […]
Poco a Poco
The Jim Winner Home for At Risk Children When working with machetes to clear large tracts of land, the key phrase is Poco a Poco *Little by by Little*. The job is so daunting at first, but after a couple of months, it’s cleared. The same thing applies impacting and changing children’s lives. First you […]
Escape From Child Slavery One Child At A Time
The Jim Winner Home for At Risk Children is paid for. We received some nice donations, from Nicaraguans and other Central Americans as well a from the states. THANK YOU! Here’s our Executive Summary for the Jim Winner Home for At Risk Children: Our goal is to help ANY KID with the desire to escape […]
The Nature of God
God a lot of times helps us through our friends. We ask God to help us, our friends offer to help, but we ignore our friend’s help, thinking it isn’t spiritual enough. God is a lot less spiritual than we are, I think. On a spiritual note, we are bringing food to the dump to […]
The Orphanage Plan
“And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain: and when He was set, his disciples came unto him: And He opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit:for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn:for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for […]
Good NEWS!
We have an address where we can now receive normal sized packages without customs nightmares. (75% of the time, which is GREAT for here.!!!) You can NOT write off these boxes. They have to go through our non profit Charity River of Life to get the tax write off, but if you want to just […]
The Jim Winner Home for At Risk has been purchased (1 May 2013)
We bought the Jim Winner Home for At Risk Children. ( It is a large property, but the building NEEDS A LOT OF WORK. If you happen to know of any manly handy men who want to take a vacation to tropical Nicaragua, we could sure use a hand!y man) BTW we always need mommies […]
The Dump
The dump has been an ongoing love affair of mine for the past 3 decades. The needs are so glaring. Today there is a cold epidemic here. Colds, Diarrhea and Burns kill more kids down here than anything else. These kids are all walking around looking like glazed donuts. (Blame Bill Cosby for that one). […]
I can do all things through Christ – Phil 4:13
Great week of ups and down. The house is a problem. Guy wants more and more money everytime we talk because he knows we have the money in the bank,and that it would be a cash deal.. Is not something wrong with this picture? That is why we are looking for another house to buy […]
Sponsor a Child-Poochie
The difference between boys and girls; Other than love and doing God’s will, the Winnies just love dragging kids from the street to clothes shop, a chick thing! Poochie got clobbered in a rock fight at the dump yesterday (ergo the hat).Poochie does’nt like shopping ( neither do I, I think they paint these places […]
Play Nice!
That is my number one saying when I am working with kids. I think that is what God is saying when HE said that the two greatest commandments were, Love the Lord thy God with your heart, soul and mind, and love your neighbor as yourself. IF YOU LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOUR SELF, YOU […]
April Fools!
Being in love with God makes you do foolish, unwise things for OTHERS, IF you love God, you love OTHERS. Ever seen a teenager in love? They do some pretty wild and crazy things. A friend of mine down here says that the best way to be a witness is to die to self. You […]
Easter Weekend
Easter signifies a new start. A whole new life. It starts on the 8th day of the week, the beginning. The empty tomb is God´s proof that rebirth is possible. Paul said we are the most miserable if it weren’t so. Giving kids a chance at a NEW LIFE, irregardless of where they are coming […]
Curse or Blessing
This has been a spectacular week. I always tell my kids when they wake up in the morning that the choice is theirs to have a great day or a horrible day. The choice is really whether to be in a good mood or bad mood. I tell them to be in a good mood, […]
Ides of March
A snap shot of the IDES OF MARCH I was just looking at a Bible Concordance. A concordance is used to find how many times the same words are used in the Bible, and where you can find them. Popular frequently used words are one or two pages max. The word CHILD takes up 48 […]
God Sense of Humor
A sad but eventful week. Started off with our second break in this month. We live very close to the dump, please take 10 minutes and watch this video, to give you an idea. Next week, Lord willing, we will have our new `old car`out of the shop. When and IF we buy this property, […]
God Is Love – John 4:8
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 […]
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 […]
The Fight Against Child Slavery
As you know, we (Mostly Winnie, I’m just her ‘facilitater’) help kids at risk of child slavery. We use a six fold approach 1. Really, Genuinely LOVE them 2. Feed them 3. Shelter them 4. Educate them spiritually 5. Educate them academically 6. Actually prepare them for the future First thing we need to do […]
Merry Christmas Nicaragua
Pastor Tucker and his wife Maria have been a great influence in me. Like me they like to reach out to the kids in need, where they live on a daily basis, not just ‘events’. The photos are of two families we are working with. This week has been mostly a line standing week trying […]
God is Good and Merciful
God is good and merciful. We had a great week. God is in control. Thank you for your vote of confidence in me and your friendship. Major dengue outbreak. Marilyng’s infant has it. Interesting fact, dengue mosquitoes bite during the day. Gringos as a rule don’t nap, so that makes us moving targets. Praise God […]