Nicaraguan mission trip eye-opener for Selma's town clerk
Selma Town Clerk and Human Resource Director Fran Davis said she never desired to travel outside the country. She even said she probably never would, until she began to feel God wanting her to join her grandson Nicholas Phillips, on his second mission trip to Nicaragua.
“I began to feel God tugging on my heart to join him, all the while I was asking, Why me Lord?”
Shortly after deciding to join the trip, Davis’s youngest daughter Lori Edwards and her sons Matthew Edwards, 15, and Bradley Barnes, 16, also joined the Princeton Church of God mission team.
The mission team of 10 adults and 10 teenage to college aged students left Johnston County July 30, to travel to Los Brasiles, a poor area of Nicaragua near Managua, the capital, according to Davis.
The group’s mission was to build relationships with children enrolled in the preschool/after school facility the group the previous year had painted and repaired.
Davis said the team took 40 children, ages 5-9 to a camp by a river about two and a half hours away from Los Brasiles for three days.
“The trip was a huge step of faith for the children,” said Davis, “Most of the children had never slept on a real bed with a mattress and sheets or took a real shower.”
“Don’t get me wrong, the camp was no Hilton,” said Davis. She said it was the typical camp environment with bunk beds, bugs and cold water, but to the children it was like paradise. While at the camp, the mission team instructed Bible school activities and played games using interpreters. She said they also took the children swimming, fed them as much as they could eat, loved them and were loved by them.
The mission’s only transportation was a beat up old school bus in which they traveled asphalt, cobblestone and dirt roads, according to Davis. She said the trip was an education in itself seeing Nicaraguan crops, animals and general environment of their country.
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