In Nicaragua with Compassion - Jan 2019 - Part 1
For about a week in January 2019, I was blessed to tour Child Development Projects in Nicaragua, as well as visiting three of my sponsored children, Cristian, Ana and Danilo, plus Enmy, whom I sponsored for over twelve years until she finished the program in 2015. The tour was hosted by Compassion International . Link to photo album Project NI-111 in Ciudad Sandino Half of our tour group at Iglesia Esmirna, Jan. 19, 2019 After arriving in Managua with nearly thirty sponsors and staff on a Friday night, we spent Saturday morning touring Child Development Center NI-111, "Fragrance of Myrrh" run by a local church, Iglesia Esmirna, in the the nearby city of Ciudad Sandino. Many children welcomed us at the entrance, some holding homemade name tags for each of us. We sat in rows in the church sanctuary while various children's groups sang and danced to worship music. In one of the groups, three of the boys in back ran out to the front to break dance and do cartwheels...