Here are some of the things we've been up to these last few months. Lots to be thankful for.
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| The SOAAR Program was blessed to have Meindert Prins volunteer for January and February. He was loved by students and staff, and we hope he'll return in the future! |
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| NCA Color Run--the one chance a year our kids can go to school with dyed hair, so you can imagine they really rub it in! |
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| Wacky Tacky Special Color Day for Elementary |
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| Ruth continues to coordinate NCA MERT (Medical Emergency Response Team) drills every so often; she loves to scare the team members by creating surprise disasters! |
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| In February, Hector Ariel came to live with our family. He is enrolled in medical school at UCN, or Central University of Nicaragua. |
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| Henry, Ruth, and Andrew were able to volunteer at Night to Shine in partnership with Tesoros de Dios and Vida Abundante, the church where we've been attending. |
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| Jose Angel, a carpenter from our school, made an incredible loft bed for Mae! She loves her new room! |
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| Henry joined the NCA Eagles basketball team! Thankfully he's inherited more of his mother's athletic abilities than those of his father. |
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| NCA high schoolers were able to participate in Spiritual Emphasis Day, an annual event. Andrew gave a small group talk about Christianity and disability. |
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| Annie! This took over the lives of Henry and Andrew from January through early March , with multiple practices each week. |
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| Nicaragua rose to the spotlight as Nik Wallenda walked across Volcan Masaya on live TV across the US. We would've loved to see it live but the volcano, only 45 minutes from home, was closed to visitor |
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| Grandpa and Grandma came to visit! They watched Annie three nights in a row, ending our time together with a night at the beach. We're thankful they made it out of Nicaragua right as things began to get crazy in the US. |
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| They were able to meet Cristofer, their sponsor child through Tesoros de Dios. |
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| Mae has been part of a team called "Club Chiquilistagua," a soccer club made up of NCA and local community kids. She's the goalie! Her "dirt line" is quite epic at the end of each practice. |
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| Andrew is staying busy coordinating the SOAAR program at NCA, working alongside of some awesome students and staff. |
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| God provided a volunteer for the SOAAR program just as Mr. Prins was leaving to head back to Canada. Genesis is a recent grad from NCA Nejapa and has jumped right in, serving kids in many classrooms as a SOAAR volunteer. She's a natural, and I'm so thankful for her! |
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| This last week of school was supposed to be "Kindness Week," sponsored by the Elementary Student Council, which Andrew co-leads. With low attendance and eventual cancellation, the week didn't pan out as we had hoped, but it was still neat to see kindness encouraged around NCA, even amidst uncertain times. |
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| While not teaching a daily class, Ruth continues to help at NCA in a variety of ways. She helps Andrew with his high school Study Skills course, is working on health curriculum and policy, and recently designed a sink near the cafeteria that was quickly installed due to eminent arrival of coronavirus in Nicaragua! |
