Day 5 - Food delivery and powerful encounter- Bruno and Lisa de Jesus

Today was our 5th day on the ground here in Puerto Cabezas and what a great day it was! In the morning, the entire team got on a bus and went to the local market. It was quite something.. For many of the people in this market, since the unemployment rate is around 80%, this one of the few ways they have to make a living: to grow some type of crop, then go to the market and try to sell it. And it wasn’t your normal market. We saw about any and everything being sold there from used clothes, to cow’s intestines, to cell phones and everything in between. We walked by a couple of pigs heads, ate some strange fruits, amongst other things. Once we were done walking around the market, we headed to the store where we bought the food we were going to deliver to a community near the trash dump later in the day. We got 300 lbs of sugar, rice, beans, and flour, and butter. We brought everything back to Verbo and separated the food into 60 different bags.

          After lunch,       we loaded all of the food and headed towards the community. We had translators with us that could translate from English to Miskito. Our entire team had amazing experiences while handing out food in the name of Verbo Church, and asking them if we could pray for anything. Team members got various prayer requests, from praying for rebellious children, to addicted fathers, to kids’ sickness.

          In the end of the afternoon, on our way back, we stopped at Marina’s, the lady for whom we are building the home. She had only seen a couple of us from the team up to this point because our team had gone to different places. We all got off the bus, everyone got to see the house that is being built (it will not be finished until after we’re back in the States).  But before we left Marina’s house, something amazing happened. We all went into Marina’s shack (an 8X8 ft space at best) and asked if we could pray for her… Wow!!! We learned so much from a lady that has nothing materially, but yet so much spiritually. It was so humbling to meet a sister in Christ who literally depends on God for her next meal. As we were praying for her, she could not stop pouring blessings upon us, not just on us, but also on the generations to come after us. Her faith in Christ was such a challenge to all team members to seek Him and find out what it takes to have that kind of faith.

Once again, today we found ourselves in a place where we received so more than we gave, we learned so much more than we taught, we were prayed over so much more than who we prayed for..

Our Lord never, ever fails, and we saw that in a clear tangible way today.

Have a great night!


James 2:5- ⁵ Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

-       -  Bruno and Lisa de Jesus