Straight Street Nicaragua

05/08/2022

05/08/2022

We capped off an incredible week of ministry with a team from Enterprise, Alabama with men's and women's conferences, evangelism, and today a conference for pastors and their family's. We ministered to each age group of the family including the children, adolescents, and youth. We blessed each family with scriptural challenges as pastors face various challenges in the ministry and in the family! We love our pastors and we bless each local church as the people of God on the earth!

30/07/2022

This is Amanda Marken. She will be serving with Straight Street International for 25 days. She has felt a call to missions and decided to sacrifice part of her summer to explore that calling.

Amanda is strongly involved in her church in Colorado. She volunteers with and mentors middle school girls through the church. She just graduated high school in May and is planning on continuing her missionary journey through YWAM starting in September. Please continue to pray for Amanda as she ministers and that she will listen to the call the Lord has for her life.

29/07/2022

We want to introduce you to Julia Cunneff! She will be interning at Straight Street for 27 days and has sacrificed time out of her summer to serve here in Nicaragua with us. She has come with an open heart to learn more about what it looks like to be the hands and feet for Christ. She feels a calling into missions and has learned a lot so far about what that looks like for her life.

Julia is currently serving at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. She will be a junior in high school this upcoming year, and she is excited to continue exploring God’s calling for her as she finishes off her high school years. Please continue praying for her as God reveals His great plan to her!

28/07/2022

We want to introduce Kaylee Parkison. Kaylee will be serving with Straight Street for 4 weeks. She will also be serving at the Seeds of Hope ministry teaching graphic design and drawing classes. She is aiming to gain practical experience in international mission work and serve where needed.

Kaylee currently serves in her local church at Eastanallee Baptist in Riceville, TN. She is a rising senior at Lee University and will be graduating with a degree in graphic design in May of 2023. Please continue to pray for Kaylee as she discerns God’s call on her life and for wisdom in making future plans.

27/07/2022

We want to introduce you to Cade Windebank. Cade will be serving 3 weeks, giving up part of his summer to share the good news. Cade first came to Nicargua back in March of this year and felt a strong call to come back. He feels called to share the gospel on an international level and is taking his first steps to do so while in Nicargua. He is excited to be back and see what the Lord has in store for this short time.

Cade has served as a youth group leader at his church for several years and loves to see the work God is doing in the lives around him. He is an upcoming sophomore and will be transferring to Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida this fall. There he will be studying graphic design. Cade asks all of us to be in prayer for the people in Nicargua and other countries who have yet to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. Cade will continue to be led by the Lord on where to go next in his journey.

26/07/2022

This afternoon our group of 6 interns serving this summer held a luncheon for local youth pastors to encourage them in their invaluable work for the Kingdom. We worshipped together and encouraged each one of these servants to not grow weary and continue in the work. The interns shared how a pastor or mentor had invested in their lives, maybe even when the pastor saw no fruit, and today each one of these interns is exploring a call to ministry and missions. It was an emotional time for everyone as they shared testimonies of pastors not giving up, brothers stopping an attempted su***de, and the beauty of the Gospel transforming lives. At the end, we laid hands on each pastor and blessed them in their work and exhorted them to run the race as in due time their would be a great harvest. God is working out His great global plan and we're all thankful to be a small part of what He's doing!

26/07/2022

We want to introduce you to Lauren Akridge. Lauren has been here at Straight Street since July 7th and will stay until August 10th. She visited in March for a short-term mission trip, but felt called to come back this summer to serve as an intern to get more time to experience what it’s like being a missionary in Granada, Nicaragua. She has already had the chance to be a part of many different opportunities including feeding programs, church services, church events, conferences, and more. Her main focus of this internship is to learn how to run an organization like Straight Street in a third world country to see if that’s something that God is leading her to.

She currently works as a third grade teacher and support staff at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She plans to graduate in two years from Grand Canyon University with her Business Administration degree. She hopes to use her experience and education to further the kingdom of God, possibly as an international missionary.

Please pray for Lauren as she continues to serve and minister to the people of Nicaragua and explore the path that God has for her in the future.

13/07/2022

Last night we celebrated the work of God as this mission team finished up a great week of ministry. We had a testimony night with both missionaries and local church members praising God through His work in men's and women's conferences, discipleship visits, a new church inauguration, and several new brothers and sisters receiving new life in Christ! Thank you First Baptist Sweetwater for blessing the Church of Nicaragua!

12/07/2022

Last night we celebrated with El Varillal Church as they inaugurated their new building for worship and as a place of praise for God's name. Many thank you's were given to God and the many people who made this vision possible. We were able to accomish the dreams of the church in a creative way by providing a large worship space, 3 classrooms, and a future kitchen area. God has been good to this church and is using this body of believers to reach and disciple many in this rural community. Thank you to the many of you who have made this vision possible and have blessed this community so much.

In the future we would to love to build a complete kitchen for their feeding program and a bathroom to serve this community. If you are interested in blessing a community and fulfilling a vision like these or the many other needs in this area please let us know!

22/06/2022

We're putting the final details on our current church project. We will finish the concrete floor, stucco the walls, and the electrical system. Then we will celebrate with the whole church on July 10th with an inauguration service as we thank God for his provision, and encourage this body to continue the work they have started in calling the dead back to life. Thank you to every person who has made this project to become a reality and has given this incredible tool to this community!