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As the summer comes to an end and everyone heads back to school back home we wanted to take some time here on our blog to share about some of the happenings down here in Nicaragua this summer. It was a summer full of friends from North Carolina, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, California and many cities in between! The past few years of a global pandemic made travel to Nicaragua very difficult, but this summer we were so blessed to have friends return and serve with us! Quinta Havilah was busy again and we loved every minute of it! The global pandemic and downturn in the US economy h ..read more

It’s official! Honoring the faith-filled legacy of our dear Joel Stigale, Catalyst Hialeah is now open. Watch for the dancing in the video! We can’t thank everyone enough for the prayers and support as Youth for Christ Catalyst in Hialeah is open and ready to serve 11 to 19 year-olds throughout the community. By bringing the arts that are a passion for our youth like hip-hop, wall-art (graffiti), break dancing, music composition and MC’ing, our youth can grow in their talents while getting mentoring, life skills and more. A special thank you to State Representative David Borrero and Hialeah M ..read more

Greeting to everyone from Brazil. We are so grateful for the blessings the Lord has poured out on us and one post, or one newsletter, just couldn’t contain them all. He is so faithful to provide and sustain us and for that we are very thankful. Read below just to get a glimpse of some of the happenings around here lately…… We thank you for your prayers and your encouragement continually! With much love, Pete & Jodi ..read more

As you may know we are working towards a future of constructing an entirely new education building (or two) for Ileana’s School at Club Esperanza. We are doing our due diligence to get things done well on the front end working with engineers, architects designers and builders. But, in the mean time we needed more temporary classroom space! One of our neighbors offered to sell their land, so we pulled the trigger and quickly converted it into a new temporary classroom space! Praise the Lord! Here is a before and after video… God is so good and we hoped this little video encouraged you this wee ..read more

Miami YFC is proud of our City Life KIX program. 30 years of serving our youth! City Life KIX, a neighborhood outreach program that offers all-inclusive, free after-school services to at-risk children and youth in Miami, is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Established in West Homestead in 1993, City Life KIX has been providing help, hope, and wholeness to young people aged eleven to nineteen years old for over two decades. Despite the challenges faced by the communities it serves, City Life KIX has been a beacon of hope, providing a safe and supportive environment where young people can learn ..read more

YFC Miami’s Cloud Life is dedicated to reaching youth in the digital world. Miami and Fort Lauderdale YFC is very proud and excited for our newest ministry, Cloud Life! They were recently featured on YFC USA in a piece that explores the importance of having a presence in the digital realm. On average, American teens spend more than seven hours per day online. That doesn’t include time spent using screens for school and homework. Excessive internet use is linked to social isolation, developmental decline, fraud, concentration problems and more. Considering this, and the difficulty of reaching t ..read more

The Juvenile Justice Ministry is one of the cornerstone programs at Miami Youth for Christ and we were proud to be featured on WSVN 7 News last week! Juvenile Justice Ministry offers Bible-based programs and Christian mentoring to arrested, abused and at-risk youth living in residential facilities helping them build a firm foundation for life through mentorship, life skills, community and faith. We are grateful for the commitment Christ Journey has shown to this ministry and Miami YFC as a whole ..read more

And so everyone must have ice cream!!! Sheyla our long time director posted these fun photos the other day on our Club Esperanza facebook page. This page is a great way to keep up with all of the daily happenings at the club, we post lots of fun pictures and little tidbits of information. It is in Spanish, but if you don’t speak Spanish don’t worry, pictures are like math and fun…they’re all universal languages! That we have been at our new location for ten years sort of caught us by surprise because in reality we have been working in this community for over twenty years now. But when Sheyla ..read more

Krista and I want to wish you a Merry Christmas from Nicaragua! Our lives are full and we are blessed this season to be the parents to our four lovely and handsome growing children! We are also very thankful for you who pray for us and support us financially! We committed to living by faith as missionaries over 17 years ago and our well has never run dry. We praise the Lord for that! Looking into the New Year we know God has so many amazing plans for our lives down here, the lives we have an impact on, and your lives wherever you are…so cheers to the blessings of God on all of our lives this ..read more