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Dear CCM Friend and Partner,
 2010 will certainly be a year to remember. God's grace and mercy is being made known by so many who join us on the mission field. Over 700 of you have ministered in Nicargua so far this year, and five more teams will be traveling before this year's end. Thank you for being Christ's hands and feet and sharing His heart. Please be faithful to pray for those you ministered to in Nicaragua and remember CCM's faithful staff and pastors who will carry on until you return.
Be sure to contact our US home office to ensure a mission trip date for 2011. The 2011 calendar is beginning to fill. Also, remember a team can be comprised of individuals from many churches. Call our US office for details.
It has been a true blessing for Kim and me to have been with many of you this year! We thank the Lord for you, and praise Him for the wondrous work He has used so many of you to do through going, giving, and praying.
God bless,
Wallace Nix
Executive Director
I will give thanks to You, O Lord my God, with all my heart, and will glorify Your name forever. Psalm 86:12 |
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| PRAYER REQUESTS | |
God's direction, protection, and provision for His work being done through CCM.
Expanding ministry opportunities, traveling safety, and God's leading for 2010 fall mission teams.
Support, training, and protection for barrio church pastors and continued spiritual growth of families attending these churches.
God's direction on CCM obtaining a well machine to help bring water to barrios.
Continued academic learning, spiritual growth, good health, protection, and stable environment for the children at CCM's Casa Mephibosheth orphanage. |
| CCM's Newsletter | |
Look for CCM's newsletter comng in your mail in Septermber. It is filled with more team testimonies and pictures from this summer's teams. Once you have read it, praise the Lord for the work He is doing in Nicaragua. Then, share God's work by passing along your newsletter to someone else.
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| Christmas Trip 2010 - Sign Up Now! |
 Experience a Christmas that will change your life. Be renewed in your own joy of Christmas as you share its joyous victorious message with the people of Nicaragua. For 7 days, step away from the U.S. culture of commericalized material giving and step into Nicaragua's poverty to give of yourself and share the eternal gifts of forgiveness, love, and hope found in Jesus Christ. Come feed, teach, love, and celebrate CHRISTmas in Nicaragua!
This year's Christmas trip is December 11th - 18th. Trip fee for room and board is $550 per person. Call our US office at 864-599-0067 or email amber@chosenchildrenministries.orgto sign up and for more details.
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Singles Singled Out By God To Reach Others
First Baptist North Spartanburg - Spartanburg, SC |
 Our mission team consisted of 12 single adults. The diversity among our group allowed us to do a variety of things. In the Emmanuel barrio, God used us to lead a church service, teach a children's church, conduct Bible school, teach a men's study, teach women's study, go door-to-door sharing Christ, distribute hygiene bags, clothing, food, and baby blankets, and give medical assistance. We also helped construct a home, gave school supplies to all of the teachers in the barrio's school, and played sports (mud soccer) with the kids. Many of these same acts of ministry we were also able to do in the Paradise barrio.
 After doing women's Bible study one morning in San Brano, the women were so hungry for God's Word they asked us to return that afternoon. We made plans to make this happen thinking we would conduct a Bible school for the children then have one of the ladies on our team conduct the women's study while part of our group would continue doing door-to-door evangelism and providing of food, hygiene bags, and Bibles to families living in the barrio. However, when the Bible school was over our translator took the kids and headed off to the soccer field so that the women's study could start. I went with them under the assumption that we would soon head out for our door to door trip.  Around 70 kids showed up to play soccer and other sports, and I realized pulling our translator away for more door-to-door evangelism could not be done. I could not understand why we were not getting to go door to door, but I had faith that God was in control. Later that evening I found out why. At the end of the women's study a young lady approached Kim Nix and one of our team's translators, Marisela, saying she wanted to talk but she was very embarrassed. This young lady finally shared that she needed help because she had no food in her house and had no way to feed her family. Kim and Marisela went to the van and there was one food bag remaining. It was then I knew why our earlier plan had not worked out. If we had done more door-to-door evangelism that afternoon, we would have distributed the last food bag. But God knew that this lady needed it more.
Our visit to the CCM orphanage in Juigalpa was a very powerful and moving day as we shared Bible lessons with the children. We were able to give them hygiene bags, shirts, candy, toys, and school supplies. The little kids played with us for hours.
We praise God for the opportunities that he gave us as a team and we praise God for the huge impact that serving on this trip has made on all of our lives.
~Mitch Davis, Team Leader |
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Soccer to Sharing & Preparing to Rebuild Salinas Grandes Church Clearwater Community Church - Clearwater, FL | 
The Xiloa community was one place in which our team ministered.
The people there seem cold toward the gospel and one group of
young men did not want anything to do with the message. So, we
made a deal. We would play soccer with them for an hour or so if
they would then listen to us speak about Jesus. Our team had a
great time playing soccer, and we mixed up the teams so each had
both Nicaraguans and Americans.  Afterwards, with everyone feeling tired, we stopped and
Nicaraguan young men
gathered around as
Guillerrimo and I presented the plan of salvation. They listened, but no decisions were made. I know the Lord was pleased because the seed was sown. Now we wait and pray for the results.
We also worked in the Salinas Grandes community where 7 years ago
we did the concrete floor and built the windows and doors for the
church. This year we tore down the church (not the usual job in
Nicaragua) to replace it with more durable materials and expand the
size. While we were working a truck came with the block to rebuild the
church. What a blessing, to see the people from the church helping to
unload the truck with the materials for their new church and helping to
pull down the old one. It was a great time to celebrate what the Lord had
done in their village and how He is still building His church.
~ Jack Hughes, Team Leader |
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Gang Members Help Build Church
First Baptist Church - West Sacremento, ___ | |
Our building project was expanding the church building in Las Torres barrio. The pastor of this church, Pastor Luder, was able to recruit some of the neighborhood gang members to help. These gang members gave their time. Pastor Luder fed them lunch when he could and we purchased them new shoes. At the end of the week after we had worked alongside them befriended them, which was not easy, we shared the gospel with them.
 One of our team members shared his testimony. As a builder himself and a bit of a bully in his younger days, he felt he could relate to them. We talked for over an hour! It was so great to see these tough guys listen so intently to all that was said. When we were done, one man accepted Christ and the others promised to think more about it. This was one of the greatest things I have seen if not the greatest since going to Nicaragua.
We have since received word from Nicaragua that now three more guys are coming to church every Sunday morning! We praise God for this opportunity and we thank CCM for making it possible. Amazing trip!!!! God bless CCM!!
~ David Reed, Team Leader
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| Three Pastors & Six Churches Join to Minister Together |
 Our 18 member team included three pastors and church members from six
different churches. Each day our team worked on constructing a home and our pastor, Pastor Phil, provided a Bible study. We made door-to-door home visits in the mornings and conducted VBS for the children in the afternoons. The day we had VBS in the park we had approximately 100-125 children. During the week there were four salvation decisions and  several rededicated their lives.
Thank you for allowing us to be part of Chosen Children Ministries. God certainly blessed us by going with us on this mission trip.
~ Ronnie & Rose Mackey - Team Leaders
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| God is in Control
True Life Church - Greer, SC |
 "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails." Proverbs 19:21 NIV
We arrived in Nicaragua on Saturday night; however, our luggage
did not. We did not complain or whine. We simply stuck
together. I realized that God was teaching us something. For
years we had given clothes, food and toiletries to others during
our trips. God was giving us a small taste of what it was like on the other side. We were planning to go to Juigalpa on Sunday morning. Instead, our music team sang in a church service, and we were able to purchase land for someone who needed it. ...GOD'S plan, not ours. We decided to travel to Juigalpa Monday morning...luggage or no luggage. Just before boarding the bus, we got a wonderful phone call: our luggage had arrived! God certainly reminded us to thank Him for EVERYTHING. 
While in Juigalpa our plans continued to take a back seat to the will of God. We were able to have three church services in three different locations, show a movie to the kids, give out food in three different communities, see nineteen people come to Christ through door-to-door evangelism, hold a Bible school for children, teens and adults, give out school supplies in a local school and in the orphanage, and MORE. God brought us closer to each other and to Him.
The past ten years have flown by. I can hardly wait to see what God has in store in the next decade! Praise Him for His marvelous works!
~Jason Rainey, Team Leader |
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 [God] who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity, 2 Timothy 1:9
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