Calendar for the Nicaragua Medical Mission Trip March 7th – 16th, 2008
Spring Break

Fri., March 7
6:30 a.m. Team meets in GLC parking lot for
departure to Nicaragua.

Sat., March 8
Travel by school bus to the mountains of Jinotega (4-6 hours).  Meet the children and Joy Pulsiver, missionary at the orphanage.   Stay at the orphanage, sort children’s activities, books, clothes, play with the children and perhaps begin to unpack some medications to prepare for medical clinic.    Organize medications.

Sun., March 9th  Take the children by bus on a special outing to a nature preserve and cave tour followed by evening church.  Finish organizing medications.

Mon., March 10th  – Medical Clinic orientation & medical clinic.

Tues., March 11th, Wed. March 12th – Medical Clinic during the day and travel to Los Cedros late Wednesday.

Thurs. March 13th – Medical Clinic during the day. We will stay in the orphanage at Los Cedros at night.

Fri. March 14th – Morning medical clinic and drive to Los Adros, the infant orphanage (4-6 hour drive) and home for older boys. Possible light construction work or other project if needed upon arrival.  De-brief of the work done over the week will be covered in the evening. 

Sat March 15th  Take boys from the Los Cedros on a zip-line outing.  This is our R&R day. Those that want can do some shopping.  We will spend the night at the Best Western so we will be ready for our plane in the morning. 

Sunday March 16th – Return to State College via Miami and National Airport.

Nicaragua Medical Mission Trip 2008

Prayer Calendar

Dear Friends and Family,

Following, you will find a listing of suggested readings to guide your meditations and intercessory prayers.  Feel free to read ahead and beyond the selected verses!  Other passages which have guided the participants in their preparation for this mission are

included also.  May your prayers be powerful and effective. (James 5:16)  Be reminded that God is able to do more than we ask or can imagine!  (Eph. 3:20)    May this journey together bring glory to God.

Matt 25:40   I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.

Phil 2: 3   Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility, consider others better than yourselves.

Phil 2:13 …for it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.

Mission Trip Details

Grace Lutheran Participants staying at Jinotega (Hogar Maranatha ) and Managua ( Los Cedros) orphanages.

PROGRAM: Medical Clinics

MISSIONARIES: Sandy Carter, Lianne Corbin & Joye Pulsiver

Prayer Calendar

Friday 3/7/08   Phil 4: 6-7   Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Saturday 3/8/08   Mark 10:43-4  ...whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.   

Sunday 3/9/08  1Cor 1:10  I appeal to you, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another so that there may be no divisions among you and that you may be perfectly united in mind and thought.

Monday 3/10/08   Matt 19: 14    Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these. 

Tuesday 3/11/08   1 John 5: 1-2   Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well.  This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands.

Wednesday   3/12/08    Matt 22:37-9   ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’  This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’

Thursday 3/13/08   Col 3:12-14  Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.  Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another.  Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect harmony. 

Friday 3/14/08   Phil 1:6   …that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

Saturday 3/15/08  Col 1:9- 12   ….since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.  And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light.

Sunday 3/16/08   (worship at Verbo)   John 6:35, 39   I am the bread of life.  He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me.