Linda and I began working in Nicaragua in 1998 after the death and devastation of Hurricane Mitch. What started as a one-week mission trip to help restore the necessities of life to a small group of families in one rural barrio developed into an ongoing, multi-faceted ministry to show the love of God to several thousand families in 25 villages.
Of all the pictures of the two of us working together, I like this one best. On the morning this picture was taken, we had just reached the end of a two-mile journey through a deep gulley filled with debris from the runoff of the most recent rains. The mission team had already delivered around 40 bags of food and shared the gospel with the families who lived where the gulley ended. Now, we are at the top of a mountain where the gulley began, and we can see the people standing along the pathway just waiting for a bag of food. Linda and I had never seen such hunger, and we were humbled to be the ones God used to answer their prayers.
