Off the Grid

Building a Base -Nicaragua

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Participants: Narrator: Chet Damron

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Program Code: OTG000038A


00:01 Narrator: Adventist World Aviation has outpost
00:03 mission locations scattered all around the world.
00:07 Each project differs in the type of work done, however,
00:11 the underlying purpose of each of the projects is the same;
00:14 to share the love of Jesus with the difficult to reach people
00:18 of this world.
00:20 Each of the Adventist World Aviation projects is situated
00:23 in extremely remote locations.
00:26 Strategically located in remote areas, they serve the indigenous
00:30 people of those regions.
00:32 In light of the Gospel Commission, Adventist World
00:35 Aviation exists to provide logistical air support
00:39 in remote parts of the world, to carry out humanitarian work.
00:44 Jud: Nicaragua, is a very unique project
00:46 as are most of AWA's projects.
00:50 They are in areas where access is limited.
00:53 They are in places where they are serving people, who have
00:56 have unique needs for access to medicine.
01:01 Have unique needs as far as transportation.
01:03 And the airplane is able to provide that service
01:07 to those people in a very special way.
01:10 It was a huge impact on the lives of the people
01:13 living in these areas.
01:14 You see this project meets the needs of the Miskito people
01:18 in a wide variety of ways.
01:21 We're in the Atlantic, northeastern Coast of Nicaragua
01:25 which is the most isolated area of Nicaragua.
01:29 Of course that's where the needs are for the airplane.
01:32 To reach the villages that have very little other access if any.
01:37 Of course medical is the main need that most people need
01:40 and umm... the Hanley's have been able to minister to the people
01:46 here in very unique ways with medical care,
01:50 with medical evacuations, simply caring for their needs.
01:54 And what you will see really especially, is that they have
01:56 touched the people's hearts by learning their language
01:59 by becoming part of their culture.
02:02 Becoming part of their community in a way
02:06 that most people can't do.
02:08 That's again is a unique part of Adventist World Aviation
02:12 and the areas that we reach is we become part of the community.
02:16 We believe in sustainability. Our projects should go on
02:19 for as long as they are needed in those areas.
02:21 In order to do that, of course, it takes a wide variety of
02:26 resources, and primarily people.
02:28 Volunteers that are willing to come and serve for the long term
02:31 Knowing, that they are going to be calling and serving
02:34 the people in areas that may be a little bit difficult to live,
02:37 some challenges, languages, but meeting the needs of the people
02:42 where they are at, in very unique ways.
03:31 Narrator - Recently, Adventist World Aviation adopted a very
03:34 active aviation project in the northeast corner of Nicaragua.
03:39 Clint and his wife Marilyn started this project
03:43 10 years ago with the guidance of God.
03:47 They've developed an amazing, productive and
03:50 thriving aviation mission base.
03:52 The native Miskito people live in dense jungles of Nicaragua.
03:56 They are often overlooked due to their difficult
04:00 geographic location.
04:02 An aviation mission outpost located in this part of the
04:05 country is a perfect solution to help the Miskito people.
04:09 The Hanley's work in Nicaragua is truly a lifesaving mission
04:13 to the Miskito people.
04:14 Clint and his wife started this project with nothing other, than
04:19 a conviction from God that this is what He called them to do.
04:23 Clint flies medevac flights often daily and is truly
04:28 an answer to prayer for the people of this region.
04:32 I'm Clint Hanley and I live in northeast Nicaragua,
04:36 in the upper corner along the boarder of the Rio Cocoa
04:40 with the border of Honduras and I live here with my family,
04:46 2 children and my wife who is nurse and we fly this airplane,
04:51 a Cessna 172, for medical work, all around this region,
04:57 covering about 150 miles in all directions.
05:01 Since we started flying 7 years ago, I have flown 530 patients
05:06 from remote communities, or from hospital to hospital
05:09 and approximately 50-80% of those would have,
05:14 the doctors say would have died for sure,
05:16 had they not had transport.
05:18 The rest of them needed transport because they were
05:22 in great pain, say broken femurs or something like that.
05:25 That, if they would have transported by road it would
05:28 have been a lot worse for them.
05:29 So it's been a big help to the people and we're happy
05:32 to be a small part of it.
05:34 Narrator - Jud Wickwire, vice president of operations
05:37 for Adventist World Aviation, heard about the great work
05:40 that the Hanley family was doing in Nicaragua.
05:42 Since this project is new to Adventist World Aviation,
05:46 Jud wanted a firsthand view of how this base operates.
05:50 Jud - Geographically, this is well situated for serving
05:56 the needs of the people in this area.
05:58 Maybe you could describe why this is good geographically
06:01 and what the needs of the people are that you serve
06:03 with the airplane.
06:04 Clint: This area in Tronquera is right on the Rio Cocoa River
06:10 which is the border between Honduras and Nicaragua.
06:13 It's right in that area and if we go up the river,
06:19 to where the last reaches are of the river,
06:23 versus going to the coastline, where the biggest town is
06:27 where we have the big hospital where we have to bring
06:30 everybody to.
06:31 We're about the half way point in between both of those.
06:33 So we can fly 45 minutes one way and access the town;
06:36 we fly 45 minutes the other way and we are accessing
06:38 the remotest part of Nicaragua, that you can reach,
06:41 of northeast Nicaragua.
06:43 So it made sense to me when I found a runway based
06:45 in this location. This is a beautiful central location.
06:49 The Rio Cocoa River is where a lot of population base is.
06:53 A lot of the main towns are on Rio Cocoa River because
06:56 of the transportation that it brings available.
06:58 Fishing villages, ranches, stuff like that.
07:02 So when you get inland from the Rio Cocoa River
07:05 there's very little roads.
07:06 So there is very few people in there.
07:10 So the Rio Cocoa River is where it's nice to be based along.
07:12 On the other side of the river here is Honduras.
07:16 The right side is Honduras, the left side is Nicaragua.
07:19 This is a boat dock here on the left.
07:21 Where they are loading up boats and they go up,
07:23 up and down the river.
07:26 And about thirty five minutes from here up the river we have
07:29 a remote village we fly to called San Carlos, Rio Cocoa.
07:33 This boat you see coming here, they send everyday up the river,
07:38 boats like this. And this is what the sick people
07:39 have to ride on, is a boat like this.
07:41 Narrator - Jud tries to gain an understanding of just how vital
07:45 aircraft are for those living in this region of Nicaragua.
07:49 Without aviation, critically injured people have
07:53 little chance of survival.
07:55 Without the medevacs this mission provides,
07:57 injured individuals have no quick options to get to
08:01 a higher level of care.
08:03 To reach hospitals by land, it often takes 2 or more days.
08:08 But by air, Clint can deliver patients to the hospital
08:11 within 2 hours.
08:13 Having this mission plane has saved hundreds of lives.
08:17 Often without medevac flights, patients die
08:21 in the long commute from their village to the hospital.
08:26 Jud: If someone gets sick in that village, and needs
08:29 an emergency medevac, what is their alternate
08:31 to being flown out?
08:32 Clint: They take a boat, because there is no roads.
08:34 And the boats go, sometimes once a day a boat goes.
08:37 Sometimes they'll skip a day or two.
08:40 But generally a boat goes once a day.
08:42 That boat costs about five to six days wages to take the boat,
08:47 and, per person.
08:49 And it takes 12 hours to get to Waspam which is the nearest
08:54 hospital they can access.
08:55 And that's not the biggest hospital, that's
08:57 just the very nearest hospital.
08:59 But if it's very major, they need to go on to Puerto Cabezas
09:01 which is another five hour bus ride.
09:04 And the bus goes once a day to get there.
09:07 For me to fly that all of the way, from the time they call me
09:11 and I start my airplane, I can have them in Puerto Cabezas
09:14 in an hour and a half.
09:16 So if you have a pregnant lady who is in labor, even to get to
09:20 the closest hospital at 12 hours, if the boat was sitting
09:23 right there ready to go, it would be a 12 hour boat ride.
09:26 Generally it's going to be the next day or so, before
09:28 they can get the boat.
09:30 So it's usually a couple days, before they are going to get
09:33 medical help. And I can have them in an hour and a half.
09:35 So there has been a lot of lives that have been saved,
09:37 because they can get it quicker.
09:39 Jud: And this, this is the only option, only air option
09:43 in the area for anyone.
09:45 Clint: Yes, There's no commercial flights,
09:46 there's no other airplanes.
09:48 Nobody flies to these airports. In fact, in San Carlos,
09:51 I've never seen another airplane and for thirty years, there's
09:53 never been another airplane, not even military other then me.
09:57 Narrator: Currently, this project is the ONLY humanitarian
10:00 aviation support in the entire country.
10:04 Clint: We have the only ambulance for air travel in all
10:07 of Nicaragua, that can carry oxygen and a stretcher.
10:10 Now we are the only airplane in all of Nicaragua,
10:13 that is able to do this.
10:15 And we are the only airplane, that is based
10:19 on the whole Atlantic coast.
10:21 Narrator: Ten years ago, Clint and Marilyn felt God calling
10:24 them to the mission field.
10:26 They allowed God to show them where He wanted them to go.
10:30 After much prayer, they were convinced, they needed to go
10:34 and work in Nicaragua.
10:37 When they first arrived in Nicaragua, they had no idea
10:41 what God had in store for them.
10:43 Why, they never dreamed they would start
10:45 a mission aviation base.
10:48 They offered their willing hearts to God's
10:50 providential leading.
10:52 Clint: We saw that there wasn't very many missionaries here
10:54 and so that was the kind of area we thought, hey,
10:57 this is an area where nobody else wants go.
10:59 There is probably a reason for that, we knew that, but that is
11:02 the place where you can have a greater impact, because
11:07 the things you are able to do, even on a small scale.
11:09 You know as a little tiny family as one person who is working,
11:13 you are able to impact a lot more people, because
11:16 the needs are so great.
11:18 Narrator: When the Hanley's arrived in Nicaragua, they began
11:22 working in a clinic, where they were faced with
11:24 devastating realities.
11:26 Due to the remote nature of the region, many people would die
11:30 before they could reach medical care in time.
11:34 After about a year of working here, Clint felt impressed to do
11:38 something that had never been done in Nicaragua before:
11:42 offer air ambulance service to jungle villages.
11:46 This plan involved procuring an aircraft as well
11:49 as making a runway.
11:50 Although he had a burden on his heart, Clint had no idea how
11:56 this dream would ever become a reality.
12:14 After spending some time talking together, Clint offered
12:18 to show Jud around the mission base.
12:20 When the Hanley's first arrived in Tronquera, there was no
12:24 infrastructure whatsoever.
12:25 They had to build their home, a hangar, clinic, and even
12:30 a runway, if they wanted to work in this area.
12:34 Clint: When we first came here to Tronquera, we didn't have
12:36 money to really start out very big.
12:39 So we started out with our house just building it really small.
12:43 We had an outhouse out back. We didn't have the money to put
12:46 in a septic system, and running water and everything.
12:49 And we didn't have a vehicle. We rode bikes,
12:51 we had two bicycles.
12:53 One for my wife and one for me. And we could ride those the
12:56 mile to the main road to be able to catch the bus to go to town
12:59 once a month to buy supplies.
13:00 But we did have this runway, that was all over grown
13:03 with pine trees.
13:05 And it doesn't take a lot of money to go out and work,
13:08 clearing the runway and pulling stumps.
13:10 And to rent a chain saw. So I did that everyday,
13:13 working on this.
13:15 We hired local people too to help, because
13:16 labor is fairly cheap. About four dollars a day.
13:19 So I had two or three local people helping me and I worked
13:22 everyday on clearing, on this.
13:25 And I didn't have any possibility of getting a vehicle
13:29 let alone an airplane.
13:30 So I wondered at the end of the day when I would walk sweaty
13:34 and hot back home, and I looked at the clouds floating
13:36 over head the runway and I thought "why am I doing this?
13:40 Is there ever going to be a chance that
13:42 I can use this runway?" Because I don't see any possibility.
13:45 And even other missionaries laughed at me and said
13:48 "why are you doing this? You know, you don't even have
13:51 a vehicle and you think you are going to
13:52 get an airplane some day?"
13:54 But I figured the Lord gave this to me and He gave me the
13:56 money to clear it.
13:58 And so that I didn't have anything else to do.
14:00 I didn't have anywhere else to go at the time.
14:02 And so I figured, if I am a pilot, and I have a runway,
14:06 I am going to put all my effort into getting it the best I can.
14:09 And after I got it cleared, I went and I requested permission
14:13 from the government to be able to get permission for it.
14:16 I was the first person in Nicaragua they said that had
14:18 actually privately cleared a runway and wanted
14:20 to register it themselves.
14:22 That was a new procedure. But they figured out how the
14:25 procedure should be done, and they approved it.
14:27 And then through an amazing train of events, the Lord
14:32 provided an airplane and I was able to bring it down here and
14:37 start helping people down here.
14:39 It took about a year to get the logistics in place just to get
14:42 the airplane down here and get the runway approved.
14:45 I was the first person in Nicaragua building a private
14:48 runway and to go through all of the regulations that it took
14:51 to do that and then bring the airplane into the country
14:54 was a lot of work.
14:55 But the government allowed me to come, because of the work we
15:00 are doing, the humanitarian aid to the Miskito people.
15:02 There is none, none other available in all of Nicaragua
15:07 doing this.
15:08 And so it's a vital piece of help, that the government and
15:13 no other aid agency was able to offer to the people to save
15:16 lives in transport.
15:18 Narrator: Clint had a vision for this runway
15:20 and the great potential it had for humanitarian work.
15:25 Clint: So this is our runway. It's 3700 feet long.
15:28 And you can see out this direction
15:30 there is a hill on that end.
15:32 And down this way it ends in a - over a river.
15:35 And it's about twice the length, that I need
15:41 for my airplane to use.
15:43 So it's nice to have a home strip that you use all the time
15:46 that is a lot longer, then what you really need.
15:48 So you have that ability, if you have a tail wind, or a heavy
15:51 load, that you have the ability to have a little extra cushion
15:56 on your flying.
15:58 It used to be completely covered by pine trees. These pine trees
16:02 that you see on the edges here were completely covering it.
16:05 You couldn't tell any difference in the pine trees now covering
16:08 the runway and on the edges of it.
16:09 And It took about a year, between a year and two years
16:12 to get it all cleared, the stumps pulled out of it.
16:14 It took a lot of work with a pick and a shovel and then you
16:18 had to haul dirt in where you pulled the stumps out.
16:20 Fill the dirt in to places where the stumps used to be,
16:22 so you didn't get settling.
16:25 Took a lot of work, but now it's a beautiful runway
16:27 and it works really nice.
16:29 We cut the runway, the grass about between every month
16:32 and every other month, depending on the season
16:34 how fast the grass is growing.
16:36 But people cut it with a machete, just like this.
16:39 And it takes 12 guys to cut it, one day.
16:43 So each person works one day on it.
16:45 And they just cut the grass with their machetes, and they bend
16:48 down and cut the grass like this.
16:49 And they do that all day long, cutting.
16:52 We give each person a size chunk that they can cut.
16:55 And they can cut it beautiful.
16:58 It looks really good when they are done.
17:00 And that enables them do get money to use for whatever they
17:03 need to support their families.
17:06 Narrator: Once the runway was finished, they focused on
17:08 setting up a sustainable mission base.
17:11 Because Tronquera is such a remote village, the Hanley's
17:15 had to find a way to generate power for their base.
17:19 This far into the jungle, why there is no power or
17:22 communications infrastructure.
17:25 To have a successful aviation airbase, the Hanley's needed to
17:28 find a solution to provide them with both electricity
17:32 and a way to communicate with nearby villages.
17:36 Clint: So running in the background here
17:38 is my hydroelectric system.
17:40 This has a fourteen foot drop and it runs a banki turbine.
17:43 I have a twelve volt wire you can see running across.
17:46 And that runs to our house and charges twelve volt batteries
17:50 that run our power for our house.
17:53 With hydro, is one of the most efficient ways that you can get
17:56 power from and it can run twenty four hours a day.
17:59 I don't actually use it twenty four hours a day, but I use it
18:01 to backup our solar system.
18:03 And it's a real big advantage to have.
18:05 It also runs our emergency radios.
18:07 We run two radios for emergency communication.
18:12 Narrator: Clint continues the tour of the base and takes Jud
18:15 to one of the most vital sections of the base,
18:17 the communication tower.
18:20 Jud: Obviously if you go into remote areas,
18:22 communication is a huge factor.
18:24 And Adventist World Aviation is, you know our policy is
18:29 to create transpiration and communications infrastructures
18:33 in remote areas. And this is a prime example.
18:36 Can you explain a little bit about how your communication has
18:40 helped with other ministries, other organizations, government,
18:46 health and those things and how you have been involved in that.
18:49 Clint: Yah when we first moved here, there was no cell service
18:53 of any kind.
18:54 And so radios is what everything we relied on.
18:56 And we started out with two meter radios, ham radios,
18:58 and amateur radios is what we call them in the states.
19:02 And that worked, we would put a, in a local village where
19:07 we were flying, we'd put a solar panel and a battery.
19:10 And put an antenna up and then they can communicate with us
19:14 when there was an emergency.
19:15 And that worked quite well and they were able to communicate
19:19 with us and the hospital saw that and said "wow this is
19:21 really working good. Could we put an antenna up at your house
19:24 too and you could have a radio from us?"
19:25 And they have their own communication network.
19:28 And so they gave me one of their radios.
19:30 They're a Motorola set up on crystal controlled setup and so
19:34 I put one of their antennas up on my tower
19:38 and have their system.
19:40 So they can communicate from Waspam when there's emergencies.
19:43 So they communicate directly with us for that and then they
19:47 also have some of the meemessa radios, it's government,
19:50 it's called meemessa, it's government health program.
19:53 Their radios are also in some of the remote communities.
19:56 So they communicate directly with us from runways that they
19:59 have in the communities. And the doctor in the community than can
20:02 call directly to us to schedule flights and tell us you know
20:05 that there is a person here that's coming in.
20:07 Or that somebody is coming down the river to us right now
20:09 and we need them to be transported out.
20:11 So especially with cell service not being here, radio was,
20:19 we were reliant on it and it was extremely crucial.
20:22 Other mission stations around, the Tasba Raya Adventist Clinic
20:25 that was a ways away, they used us a lot for communications,
20:28 as a third party because we had internet, they didn't have
20:31 internet, but they had a radio so with medical emergencies,
20:35 with anything they had, family, needed to contact anybody,
20:38 they would send emails to us, and we would tell them
20:40 over the radio what it was.
20:43 And right now on the river there is a family up the river also
20:47 that their only communication is a radio to us.
20:50 They have no other communication.
20:51 Narrator: Having reliable communication is essential
20:54 for the type of work Clint and Marilyn do in this remote area.
20:58 Having an aircraft to offer lifesaving medevac flights
21:02 is useless, if injured patients can't contact Clint
21:06 when they need help.
21:07 Having radios, and a way to communicate with each village
21:11 was a large project to undertake but it has proven to be well
21:16 worth the efforts.
21:20 Next Clint takes Jud to show him the airplane and hangar.
21:24 Clint: There's one place in Managua that builds structures,
21:28 and so I went there and asked them about a custom built
21:31 structure that would fit my airplane.
21:33 And it's 58 feet wide and 35 feet long
21:36 and it's covered with a tarp.
21:38 The tarp will last three to five years and so they built this
21:42 whole thing on a jig based on my specifications.
21:46 They bent the metal and everything.
21:48 This is water pipe that they used, a type of water pipe
21:51 and they bent it, galvanized pipe, they bent it
21:54 to fit the standards that they needed.
21:57 And so then it was shipped across the country in a semi.
22:00 It took it 3 days to get here.
22:02 It used a third of a semi to get here and we hauled it over here
22:06 across the creek because there was no bridge to get here so
22:09 we hauled it across the creek to make it to our place.
22:13 And it's 21 feet tall. So it took some doing to get it put up
22:17 We used pine trees and propped pieces up and climbed up little,
22:21 tiny, rickety ladders. We didn't have good ladders to use.
22:25 And managed to get it all stood up and welded pieces together
22:29 on it that we needed to weld and the whole structure made it up
22:33 and the tarp went over and it fit perfectly,
22:36 just like they designed it to fit. I was very impressed.
22:39 And it has been a tremendous blessing to have it because
22:43 the plane is out of the weather, and also the sun damages the
22:47 interior of the airplane even when you put stuff on the
22:50 windshield to stop that, it hazes the windshield then.
22:52 So it has helped a lot.
22:56 Narrator: It took the Hanley's many years to construct
22:58 this mission base.
23:00 The entire project is built to be self-sustaining
23:03 with no access to power, communications or public water.
23:09 The Hanley's were able to turn this remote jungle property into
23:13 a beautiful mission compound that is self-sustaining,
23:17 and fully operational.
23:20 They harness the local water source for their power
23:23 and plumping.
23:25 They constructed communication towers to reach those in need.
23:29 The airplane has a safe shelter.
23:32 But this mission outpost still isn't complete.
23:35 There are enormous amounts of space for growth.
23:39 So Clint takes Jud around the property and shows him
23:43 locations, where they can build additional homes for more
23:47 missionaries for this project.
23:49 Clint: This is another possible building site.
23:51 A house used to be here back in the 1970's.
23:54 It was called the green house.
23:55 And our pond is over on that side, and our house
23:57 and this house was right here on the edge of the Likos River.
24:00 And it's still got mango trees and still have flowers, that are
24:04 planted in neat rows back in the seventies
24:07 that grow every year still.
24:08 Narrator: The Hanley family is overloaded with the amount
24:11 of work they have to do here in Nicaragua.
24:15 The thriving missionary base is teeming with opportunities
24:18 for service.
24:19 It has now reached a point where there is too much work
24:23 for just one family to do.
24:27 This project is undergoing enormous amounts of growth.
24:31 The Hanley's were excited to invite Adventist World Aviation
24:34 to take over the project in Nicaragua and expand it
24:39 by adding 3 families to the project.
24:42 The Kaboos family, the Karst family and the Hansen Family
24:47 have accepted the call to join the Nicaragua project.
24:52 Clint: The Miskito people are extremely thankful
24:54 that we are here.
24:56 They are very very happy with the work we do and they are
24:59 very thankful, that we are able to help them when they need it.
25:03 And I do tell them that it's not anybody in Nicaragua that is
25:08 paying for it.
25:09 No government, no hospital is paying for this, it's the people
25:13 in America, the fellow Christians, who are
25:15 sending money down to pay for the gasoline
25:17 and help keep the airplane flying, that's helping them.
25:21 Narrator: Adventist World Aviation is honored to take over
25:24 such a fantastic project, that is saving lives both physically
25:28 and eternally.
25:31 The Hanley family started this project 10 years ago.
25:35 And During this time, God has worked through them to make
25:39 a profound impact on this region.
25:42 Jud: They have worked really really hard to build up
25:44 this base, and they have shown much ingenuity and had so much
25:50 dedication of time and resources to put this together
25:55 and make it happen.
25:57 I mean God has blessed the activity here!
25:59 He has blessed the work that they have done
26:01 with the people here.
26:02 The people have benefited enormously from the time that
26:04 they have been able to spend here working.
26:06 And we just are so excited to be able to continue this project.
26:09 To continue putting resources here to help the Miskito people
26:13 and to help share the love of Jesus with these people,
26:18 who might not otherwise receive it without this type of,
26:21 you know the airplane and the recourses that we can bring here
26:26 Narrator: They have been faithful missionaries, who truly
26:28 love the people they came to serve.
26:31 However, the Hanley's realize, that they didn't do this work
26:35 on their own.
26:37 No, God was with them all the way.
26:41 Clint: In this line of work, when I walk down the street
26:45 in our local little village, people come to me, and they say
26:49 "Thank you for saving my life! Thank you for helping me!"
26:51 And we appreciate the fact that, you know they will come up and
26:55 say "you've helped my brother. You flew my brother to town,
26:58 or my sister or me, and we want to thank you for that."
27:01 And there's very few lines of work, that you can walk down
27:04 the street and you can look at the people in your local little
27:07 town and know that several of them that you see right then,
27:11 are alive because of the work you did.
27:12 So it is very fulfilling, but at the same time, the credit
27:15 all goes to the tools that the Lord has given me.
27:17 I don't have any extra expertise, or anything that
27:21 anybody else doesn't have.
27:22 All I do is use the tools that the Lord has given me.
27:25 And I am thankful that He has blessed me with those,
27:27 and I am able to pass on as a channel to help the local people
27:32 what He's given me and what you guys send from the States
27:34 to be able to help them.
27:35 And I am the one who gets the benefit of seeing the smiles
27:37 on their faces and hear the thank you from them.
27:39 Marilyn: We cannot do this, and we did not do this, to live in
27:44 Nicaragua, and build what we have.
27:47 We are supported by financial supporters, we're supported
27:53 by prayer warriors, we are supported by the village
27:57 that we live in, other missionaries,
28:00 the list goes on and on about the amount of people, time,
28:05 energy, that has gone into making this mission a help
28:12 to the Miskito people.
28:13 And ultimately, it is through God's power, that anything
28:18 has been done down here.
28:20 Through His permission, through His allowance,
28:23 through His divine directions, we have been His hands.
28:29 It's not been our dream to build this mission,
28:32 to work in northeast Nicaragua.
28:34 It was His dream, and when He called we simply answered
28:38 that we would go.
28:39 Since then, He has developed this into the mission,
28:43 that He wants it to be.


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