Be a Part of History While
Changing Someone’s Future!
Team Borcheller has returned home from Seek The Lamb’s family mission trip. The good news: we are all still very good friends with the Bagby Bunch!
Myself (Terry), Tracy, Taylor, & Trenten, had an amazing adventure in Nicaragua. We spent time in Managua, Waspam, the Rio Coco (literally), and three primitive villages dotted along the river where Seek The Lamb has their 17 schools - Klampa, Boom, & Sawa. We were even able to take the unexpected 1st class pickup 4.5 hour trek cross country to Puerta Cabezas. We had so many amazing experiences, & met so many incredible people:
1)Visiting a live volcano with our friend Roberto,
2) landing on a dirt runway with mud, cows, & people on either side (while we were landing!),
3) drinking some of the best Rio Coco coffee EVER (I still don’t know where Mike got the water from sometimes, & don’t want too),
4) enjoying a violent midnight storm & lightning show,
5) power outages in Waspam,
6) enduring the genetically challenged roosters that decide to cocka-doodle-doo whenever they feel like it! (2am, 4am, the myth of them doing it when the sun comes up, really doesn’t apply),
7) pondering the paintings of the mission wall on the upstairs wall at Truman’s house (each seemed to tell a story),
8) being very cared for & feeling safe (great job Seek The Lamb locals – Truman’s many family members & friends. Tom & Nutie, THANKS!),
9) bathing with falling rain water,
10) swimming in the creek (that sometimes turned into a river – where did Trent go?), & many, many more amazing memories.
My favorite moment, if I had to pick just one, came when we met the kids we have been sponsoring & praying for thru Seek The Lamb: Anelka & Omer. We have prayed for them many times in our family devotions. As a family, we carry them in our hearts!
It was a rainy day and we were walking through the village of Sawa. There they were, Anilka, sitting right in the middle of all her relatives & friends that were just hanging out on the wooden ladder- like-steps in front of her grass roofed home on the muddy bank of the river. She was so beautiful, just like her picture!
I recognized Omer immediately, even at a distance as he came walking down the center of the village, on his way back home. More grown up, handsome, & confident, he was a proud graduate of a Seek The Lamb primary school and is now in the STL high school in Living Creek! It was also a very humbling & proud moment for me.
It was such a powerful experience to meet them. Here we were, in a very remote, extremely poor, & in some ways forgotten village of Central America. The thought of us playing an active role in a child’s life who lives in this village, & helping to meet what some would say is one of their biggest needs, education, was overwhelming.
As I thought through the opportunities that Seek The Lamb would give these kids by giving them a school to attend where they could learn to read & write, I was realizing that we would also play a part in forever changing their future, in so many ways. They were going to have a chance to learn to read the Bible, the Word of God, WOW! John 1:1 says “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God”.
Just about everyone in America can afford $27.00/month to give a child an opportunity to KNOW GOD, & that’s what sponsoring a child thru Seek The Lamb will do. This is all it costs to sponsor one child. Please seriously consider sharing this awesome opportunity that Seek The Lamb gives us. Maybe some day you may even get to visit your child, look them in the eyes, & quietly thank God that you made an eternal difference in their life.
Please read Matthew 25: 31- 46 & prayerfully consider sponsoring a child. Those of us that are spiritually full, have a responsibility to feed those that are spiritually starving. Seek The Lamb is feeding these kids that most everyone else has forgotten. My prayer is that many of you will catch the vision of Seek The Lamb & experience the reward that goes with it.
I want to give a special thanks to Mike, Laura, Mik, Lukas, Arielle, & Moz,. Thanks so much for everything! Most of all your friendship. Thanks for giving us an opportunity to bring hope to so many of the Miskito people. Thanks for your sacrifices and faithfulness to the call of our King. It’s one thing to do something for God, it’s another to keep doing it, & doing it, year after year for over 25 years. Each member of your family is so unique, & you are all an inspiration to us! We love you guys so much!
Terry Borcheller
Find out what Terry does in his other life at www.terryborcheller.com. It’s exciting!!!
Lamb Bleatings
By Laura Bagby
I have never known myself to be “controlling”. I don’t think seek control for myself. I certainly do not strive to be controlled by another. I don’t suppose I have even thought much about the topic of control until now.
I usually like my life a lot and find myself able to find enjoyment, beauty and positive attributes in any given situation. On my trip to Nicaragua this time, I found little to enjoy. I got sick and found myself in a space of such negativity and inability to find beauty or others centeredness in the midst of my utter misery.
The heat was unbearable in my feverish state. Because of the problems with electricity in Waspam, the simple pleasure of a fan blowing could not be enjoyed. In the middle of my miserable state, I told the Lord, “I don’t think I can stand this, Lord. I really hate this….there is nothing I am liking about this situation at all….please….” At that point, I really must admit that death looked promising. I was hurting. Suddenly, as if the Lord were right there, the fan literally turned on and started to blow in my direction. It was hope and His presence made real in the darkness. Simple but true. I really felt him with me. I had a real moment of thankfulness.
Nevertheless, my time was still a challenge and I reflected on something I had told the children on one of our morning walks around the town earlier in the week, “Beauty is always around us, but sometimes you have to look a little harder to see it and you must always practice looking and finding it even in the midst of all this ‘kanka” (feces of every kind) we are stepping around.”
I was busted as I lay around miserable and purposeless just trying to get better. I hated feeling like I was drowning and couldn’t do one thing to control my state of affairs. I was once again out of my element, out of control and out of any kind of ability to make things better. It was not pleasant to me. I realized in a way how much I did want to be in control to make myself better, but I just could not. CONTROL….
In a third world foreign country, there are many aspects that are very different from the average first world “controlled” modern & sophisticated environment.
In Nicaragua, I believe there are many moments that I desire to “control” my surrounding bug infested environment, the ever changing meaning of the infamous“Ten minutes” (which can mean anywhere from one hour to six), the ever flexible schedules of the system where management may or may not actually write out your reservations (which you planned months in advance) for a crucial flight with your team, the incredible lack of dependability of having electricity and water or not. There are so many factors completely out of my control….infinitely not even in my reach or grasping distance.
In circumstances like these, I believe there is positive training for one who longs to be trusting and not in control…knowing that really there is but One that is in control. It is when we totally succumb to the control of our eternal Creator, the ONE that is divinely & completely in charge, that we experience freedom and peace.
I had the privilege of going to our friend’s gym yesterday (Christi’s Fitness) for the first time since coming back to Vero. My friend Christi was teaching. She is a beautiful, organized, direct, thorough, orderly and enthusiastic instructor. She starts on time, ends on time and is always pleasant. In the midst of the class I found myself feeling so happy and privileged to be there in air conditioning…so comfortable and free…moving about with ease….being told what to do and then my body having the freedom to do it. It felt so good and I felt so grateful. I knew there would be an exact end to it and when that was going to be. Basically before even getting there I knew what to expect and sure enough it was all happening as I had anticipated and I was having so much fun.
I asked myself,” why are you liking this so much?” The answer was swift, “Because it is controlled. You really do love control and being controlled. There is freedom and stability and you like freedom and stability…it’s safe.” Whoa. Epiphany.
I really hate when I don’t get my own way. However, I have had the privilege of practicing diligently the art of acceptance and flexibility in the environments that just don’t line up to “what I want”. There is only One who truly controls and gives not necessarily what I want, but certainly what I need.
I seem to continually receive ample training to demonstrate just how stubborn I am in my pursuit of something that never belonged to me in first place. My life IS out of control and I must come to the place of trust, rest and His way, not mine in all matters of life and godliness.
In my fitness classes, I laugh at myself a lot. I find it most amusing when my body gets out of sync and I feel this sense of being out of control with my movement and the music. It cracks me up. I literally laugh out loud. Such is my life…..when I lose myself, my abilities, my control……..The fun begins and God’s adventure starts. It deeply renders joy unexplainable. Laura
Waspam Center Construction
Amazing Progress in our building in Nicaragua!
March 2007 >>>>>>>> July 2009
We hosted over 70 teachers at our July Teacher conference in the Waspam Center. Many slept in the second floor offices which are almost finished. To complete the job we need only to purchase more windows, door locks, office furniture, and exterior paint, along with two computers. We are very close to moving in! We estimate $6300 will cover the costs.
When we started construction in August 2006, we only planned to build a two story building with two classrooms below and an an office space above. Our Miskito builders had another vision, and added arched windows, an extended covered porch, and then we added the cement roof that turned into the third floor deck with a traditional and very cool leaf roof.
This building is an inspirational work of art, and we are so proud of Truman and Tomas for seeing a bigger vision that we did.
In July, an organization that is helping us in adult eduction had their "Congress" in Waspam, and regents from many universities in Spain and Nicaragua attended, including the head of all Nicaragua universities. They held it on the top floor of our building, because as the director told us "It is the most Miskito and beautiful place to have such a meeting with important people from abroad."
Here Truman is addressing these highly educated regents of seven Spanish and 8 Nicaraguan Universities. Imagine the favor on this man who only finished high school speak to these highly educated folks!
Please keep this in your prayers this month. Our Team needs this working space, and your prayers. Pray!
Join Tom & Nutie’s Construction Team!
We are beginning construction of an apartment for Nutie & Tom. We decided to cut costs and build it on top of the dining hall, which was already built to hold a second floor. It is the building to the upper left of the Leaf Roof Place.
As of today, Tomas has taken off the roof of the comidor, and has made two columns for supporting the second floor.
We are already making cement blocks. We estimate the cost for this 1000 square ft. home to be $20,000. We ask you to please pray for this, as they need a place to live asap!
The Bagby Bunch Corner
We are back from a tumultuous time in Central America! We first stopped in Honduras to visit old friends and plan a ministry event, and were there when the Honduran Congress and Supreme Court voted President Zelaya out of office! He was set on a plane to Costa Rica. When we arrived at our hotel in Managua Nicaragua, the ex-prez Zelaya was there– along with his Venezuelan and Sandinista friends, plotting a return to Honduras. Read about it at www.supportfreehonduras.com. Americans are not hearing the truth about this process of law that took place in our friendliest country in Latin America.
Our Family Camp was hit with hard rains, but still God was present, and lives were changed. Our family stayed in Waspam for an few more weeks, planning the teacher conference, and working on the Waspam Center. I think Moselle got more paint on her than the walls of the third floor!
We painted it multiple happy colors! Very Miskito! Half of us got sick, and then the electricity went out for over a week in Waspam. We experienced a private Bagby Family Deep Water Experience that did have profound effect on us all. Many many lessons learned. We realized what a raw place the Coco River actually is! Yet God was working out many things in our relationships within our team– very needed!!!
Our time with our teachers was precious! We played games with them, and spent five days getting to know them better. We have a very capable group, who are making progress in their spiritual understanding. We are fortunate to be helping them educate our 2587 students. Your prayers and support have major impact each month. You have to see their faces to really appreciate that fact. I hope to introduce many of them to you over the next few months.
We are traveling this month to North Carolina to visit ministry partners, and next month plan to be heading to Maui. Please join us in asking God to specifically provide the listed needs on the Arrows Prayer insert. We so want to be able to move our team into the Waspam Center offices soon! Laura & Michael
A & M
Coffee Club
Hello my Coffee Buddies!!
Well this month we have a slide show that I and my sister Moselle made about our trip to Nicaragua. We are going to send this to all of our members of The A & M Coffee Club. So it is free to all members. Are you a member of the Coffee Club? Why not? Its Good Coffee at a Good Price and Great Cause. So if you join this month we will send you our slide show for free. Now that is a deal.
Send us an email at lambagby@cs.com and we will sign you up today!
We will get our coffee to you and the slideshow.
Hi its Moselle! I hope you enjoy your coffee that we roast. We work hard to make it the best! Please join our coffee club this month! Bye!
How You Can Help In August:
Here are some suggestions for you to play your part in God’s plan to make disciples and educate children and adults on the Rio Coco in Nicaragua:
1) Sponsor a Miskito Child. We need many sponsors for the 2009 school year. It is only $27 a month, and it will provide education and special needs to a student in Project Ezra.
2) Contribute to the building fund for the Waspam Center. This almost-complete building is already being used to educate teachers and pastors. Windows, computers, desks, and paint are needed. We estimate $6300 will allow us to move in!
3) Join the support team of a Seek The Lamb missionary! Danilo Cunningham, Nutie & Tom Keogh, and Laura & Michael Bagby receive no salary from Seek The Lamb and rely on their personal support team to cover their living & ministry expenses. Your gifts will go a long way!
Please click on any of the links above to make a contribution.
If you are not yet enrolled as a child sponsor, please email us at lambagby@cs.com and simply say:"I want to sponsor a child." We will take care of the rest.
All contributions are tax deductable, and Greatly Needed and Appreciated!
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