Help Needed in Nicaragua - Oscar

Oscar desperately needs help now in Nicaragua!!!

Item #1:

We need help with the Christmas outreach celebration for the children in December. We are trying to get this request out early so that everyone will have enough time to help us raise the needed funds. The cost per child this year is $3.00. We want to share the love of Christ in a practical way by getting each child one toy and preparing a nice meal for them. We hope to make a big day of it in the villages by bringing in clowns and having piñatas and candy with music in the back ground. It will be an all day activity where we will share the gospel with the adults that come on that day. Last year we were able to bless and put smiles on the faces of 3500 children with the help and support of IIM. This year we are waiting to see what God will do and you could be a part of this event. Please keep in mind that many of these children will never get a toy on Christmas unless we step up and do something because their parents can't afford to buy them anything in most cases.

Item #2:

We need help to be able to make the monthly payments on the new land where we have the warehouse used to store the food for the feeding units. This food is used to feed over 9000 thousand children a day in the different villages and cities in remote areas in Nicaragua. The monthly payment is $1200 for 12 months. We have been doing ok with payments with teams funds but as the year ends we do not have any more teams. Our September trip canceled therefore we will not have the extra funds to make payments until teams pick up next year. Anything we can come up with the owner will take and subtract it from the total amount. We are blessed that he is not very demanding on the time or the money. We will not have to pay any extra taxes on the land.

Item #3:

We also desperately need to update our truck. The white Chevrolet we have has a gasoline engine and is constantly breaking down. We are spending a lot of our resources to keep it running plus it uses a lot of fuel. If we could replace it with a better 4-wheel drive diesel truck that would be a big help! We must have a truck to deliver the food to the churches and villages where we feed the children. Many pastors, churches and villages are in the mountains in places we can only reach with a 4-wheel drive truck. This truck is also our primary way to get around to do sports ministry and all the other ministries God has sent us to do.

There are other needs in the ministry but we consider that these three are the main ones for now.

Thank you all for taking the time to read our needs. Please pray about them. On behalf of my family, our ministry and all the children and lives that we are able to touch because of your obedience to come down or to give to help the kingdom grow in Nicaragua thank you and may the Lord bless you.  

With Love in Christ always,

Oscar Corea and family

Family Mission Trip Cancelled

We are sorry to announce that the Family Mission Trip to Costa Rica scheduled for Sept 20 - 27, 2012 has been cancelled due to logistics. IIM hopes to offer this trip again in the Spring of 2013. Please contact Bro Charles Pinkerton for all the details.

IMMEDIATE - Job Opening in Costa Rica!!!

IIM has an immediate opening for a Spanish - English speaking pastor in Costa Rica. This is a great opportunity and is a funded position in a good location.  Contact Bro Charles for  details - (334) 685-4128!!!

Update from Tommy Melvin

Just a quick update from last week:

My team arrived fine Monday night. They almost missed their flight, and only two had missing luggage. We had it taken care of and Delta delivered it to the house. Tuesday, the team relaxed after the long day before. In the afternoon, we visited the orphanage. The teenage boys were a little unsure of how to interact with the kids, but soon jumped right in. Tuesday night, we went to the service at Pastor Juan's church in Carmen Lyra. It was a great experience for everyone. Wednesday morning, we arranged to have a man cut boards for the desk project we would be working on at the pastor's church.  Wednesday, we also went to the school in Carmen Lyra and painted all afternoon. Wednesday night, we attended the service at Messenger of Hope. Thursday, we went back to the school at 9 to do a program with the kids. It was very different and the kids were scattered into groups, but it went pretty well. After the program the kids left for the day and we continued painting. After we finished painting there, around 1, we went to the pastor's church in Guyabo to work on repairing the desks. We worked up their for a couple hours before returning back to the house. It seemed like an impossible task to sand, paint and have the new boards put on the desks. Friday, we worked putting a varnish on the wood pieces. In the afternoon, we split the group in two. Half of us went to the church to finish sanding and painting all the metal desk frames and the other half stayed and finished varnishing and organizing the supplies. I went with the group to the church, and it was a miracle that we were able to sand and paint all of the desk and chairs in the one afternoon. Saturday, we had our free day. We ate breakfast in town and shopped. Then we went canyoning in the afternoon. Sunday, we attended church here, and after Indra and her family took us to a restaurant  where you catch your own fish to have cooked. It was a lot of fun and very reasonable. Less than $80 for 13 people. That trip took most of the afternoon. Sunday evening, the team packed up and went to sleep early. They left here at 3AM for the airport.

I was very happy that this trip made a huge impact on several of the members. The one man that was in the group is a young Christian. He was brought to tears when talking about how his time here had changed him. Several others had the same experience and would be glad to go on another trip.

Yesterday (Wednesday) I went with carpenter to Pastor Juan's church to install the wood pieces on the desks and chairs. We left here at 7AM. The neighbors to the church fed us snacks and lunch. They are members of the pastor's church. We had to return to Turrialba to exchange some bolts and the neighbor gave us a ride there and back. We finished for the day around 5:30. Today, the carpenter went back to the church to finished a few of the chairs that were left.

RCC - Nicaragua 2012

Check out all the photos from the RCC - Nicaragua 2012 Medical Missions Trip on the website. The photos are in the slideshow on the home page. www.internationalimpactministries.com

Photos for the May Nicaragua Sports Missions Trip

The Mission Teams often visit local hospitals and visit with children who are sick although many times they see children that are burned in accidents including many from the dump.

 This little boy had been burned in an accident. He had been badly burned in a cooking accident.

 IIM and Oscar have been working with roughly 200 families that live in and around the dump. They hunt in the garbage in the dump for food or items to sell to buy food. This dump is often burning under the surface and is the reason many children are burned each year as they try to feed themselves.

The Mission Sports team from Florida represented Florida well as they play well, earned some respect from local teams and shared the Gospel with lots of young people.

It was a great blessing to get to build into the lives of so many desperate children. IIM and Oscar feed almost 10,000 women and children a day in Nicaragua. It is a huge mission that they could use everyone help in reach out and feeding people physically and spiritually.

Nicaragua Sports Mission Team Summary

Update from Sports Ministry Mission Team Lead by Tallahassee attorney Scott Gwartney.

The dorms looked great… and we thanked you by name every time we walked into that AC! Tallahassee felt downright cool when we got home!

Had a great trip. We had 12 college soccer players + a girlfriend + Chris Albanese and his wife. Then we had 5 old folks in their 40s mixed in with all those 18 – 21 year olds (Chris is 27). They played lots of soccer against everything from a high school team, club teams and even the defending 6-on-6 national champs.  I think our American guys just being there and playing well opened a lot of doors for Oscar.  After a testimony from one of our guys and brief talk from Oscar, we saw 20+ hands go up to accept Christ at one mid-field post-game huddle!  We had one young man who preached Sunday at Oscar’s church, and 4 more came forward to accept Christ. We did the feeding & VBS thing about 5 times, and my team was very sobered by the dump and the hospital.

We worked ‘em hard, but I think they were richly rewarded. It was a first mission trip for most of them.