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For the month of June our mission base is in Candelaria, Nicaragua, a small village outside of Chichigalpa.  Nicaragua is the second poorest country in Central America.  The majority of the impoverished areas are located within the rural and more remote villages.  Most homes have dirt floors with limited electricity and water supply.  The remoteness and small population of the village pose challenges for developmental efforts.  The village is comprised of sugar cane farmers that work six months out of the year for $5 a day to provide for their large families.  The other six months out of the year they are simply unemployed left to their own measures to provide.  This is a guaranteed $900 annual salary that is dispersed into food, clothing, shelter, transportation, education as well as any additional expenditures daily life requires.  The village has no paved roads and the homes are made up of either tin and cardboard or at best a simple concrete shell.

In what seems to be the center of the village is a church base set here by New Song mission group.  The church campus is simply amazing.  It is beyond imagination how it exists and how it continues to grow at an alarming rate.  There is change and excitement in the air as new ideas and rapid growth continue.  To this day the New Song mission group base in Candelaria has a working medical and dentistry clinic, sewing and crafting class, baseball field for professional Nicaraguan teams, two water wells, water tank with electric pump, dormitories with full bathrooms, extensive kitchen, auditorium, goat farm for distributing milk and cheese, garden for vegetables and medicinal plants, cooking school and are now working towards a bakery, two story restaurant, youth recreation center and internet cafe.  

Even with so much going on spread between few, the wisdom behind these efforts are unmatched.  One example is the way each program is intertwined.  The dung from the goat farm is used for compost in the garden, and the garden produces medicinal plants for the clinic.  

The members that make up New Song are dreamers.  They are efficient in pleading, trusting and listening to God.  God is shown through these individuals as they make small steps and God simply fills in the rest.

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