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Updated Saturday January 9, 2010

Alba and Imer returned home to Jinotega in December. See the December 2009 Newsletter for more details.

Many of you that have been to Nicaragua know Alba and her girls.

About six years ago Alba's husband cut off her lower arms. Many of you have expressed a desire to help Aba. Well, on October 18th Alba and one of her daughters, Imer, will travel to Louisiana to be fitted with prosthetics for each arm and undergo physical therapy. Thanks to all that have help make this possible. Donna and I will be traveling to the states with Alba and her daughter Imer for this life changing procedure. They will be in the states for six to eight weeks in Monroe. Imer always sits with her mother in worship and there is no more moving scene than Imer feeding communion to her mother.

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Friends of Nicaragua...Many have contacted us about Hurricane Ida. We are presently working on the best response to the hurricane that hit Nicaragua's southeast coast and moved north into western Honduras. The area hit the worst has the least ability to respond to what has happened to them and the second problem is

getting help to them.

The storm's path was east of Jinotega but it has brought rain to the area and it is still raining in Jinotega and north (UPI is reporting that over 20 inches of rain has fallen over northern Nicaragua) and we are waiting for reports from the north on any damage on the river, but the greatest problem in Jinotega could be the damage to the coffee crop which would cause major economic problems for the area....the economy in this area depends on the coffee harvest, each year the coffee harvest works about 40,000 people, [more...]