Satisfied Wages for Nicaragua

We stood on the roof of the Cate Hotel in Morogoro, Tanzania, in awe of the Uluguru Mountains and centuries old Baobob trees with trunks large enough to carve a house out of. We praised and thanked God for bringing us to Tanzania, East Africa! We met new people, cultures and shared a love for making disciples in the Lord Jesus Christ! We were there for our Discipling Marketplace Leaders Global summit!  This was our first time gathering with the rest of the DML team from around the world. We spent the week together sharing how the Holy Spirit is working with us to make disciples in the marketplace. We celebrated our diverse countries, and tribes. We sang in so many different languages to praise our living God! We ended the week with a trip to the Mikumi National park, admiring God’s great creation observing elephants and lions! A beautiful reminder, to love what God has left for us.  We also shared our challenges and laments at our summit. The hardships of living in a fallen wo...

A cool mountain morning at the demo plot Since Darwin graduated from the Managua Agronomy University in 2019, he wasn't able to find stable work in his career until now. This means apart from a few internships while in university he has lacked the hands on experience needed to work with farmers. In fact, he has grown up in the small city of Jinotega and has never planted anything of his own! Darwin never lacks enthusiasm to try new things. However, I knew if he was going to mentor experienced farmers on the technical side of growing beans, he needed to grow his own!  We had an older bag of red bean seed we had been using for promotion purposes in our workshops for the past six months. It was an older batch of seed, and while returning home from a workshop it started to rain and the bag got wet form a leak in my truckbed cover. While taking it out of the truck to store it again, the bag split open on us! We were able to recover the seed, but this meant we could no longer use it for ...