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The Northern Michigan District including the Traverse City Nazarene Church participated in a Work & Witness Mission to Nicaragua, beginning April 6 through April 22, 2007. Most recent Work & Witness missions were to Russia, Brazil, Hawaii, and South Africa.
Comments and photos are placed here so that friends, family, and others may follow the mission as it progressed. Please feel free to check here daily for the most recent update in comments and photos.
MISSION MEMBERS AND THEIR CHURCH:
Dennis Hamilton - Cadillac Darla Hamilton - Cadillac Claude Woods - Cadillac Penny Woods - Cadillac Robert Losie - Cadillac Cody Nixon - Cadillac Jason Ball - Utah (Air Force) Gloria Ball - Utah (Air Force) Cameron Cavitt - Cheboygan Norene Pillars - Traverse City Bruce Cain - Mesick Christina Cain - Mesick Elizabeth Cain - Mesick Thomas Baird III - Buckley Gary Stephenson - Pickford Patricia Stephenson - Pickford Jill Rice - Traverse City Rev. Rick Rice - Traverse City Allen Rice - Traverse City David Rice - Traverse City MacKenzie Rice - Traverse City Rev. George Chouinard - Escanaba Deborah Winn - Otsego Patricia Boyer - Cadillac Rev. Steven Lalone - Cadillac
We have a great group!
Jill
From U. S. Government sources.
The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, saw the Sandinistas defeated, but voting in 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt.
MISSION MEMBERS AND THEIR CHURCH:
Dennis Hamilton - Cadillac Darla Hamilton - Cadillac Claude Woods - Cadillac Penny Woods - Cadillac Robert Losie - Cadillac Cody Nixon - Cadillac Jason Ball - Utah (Air Force) Gloria Ball - Utah (Air Force) Cameron Cavitt - Cheboygan Norene Pillars - Traverse City Bruce Cain - Mesick Christina Cain - Mesick Elizabeth Cain - Mesick Thomas Baird III - Buckley Gary Stephenson - Pickford Patricia Stephenson - Pickford Jill Rice - Traverse City Rev. Rick Rice - Traverse City Allen Rice - Traverse City David Rice - Traverse City MacKenzie Rice - Traverse City Rev. George Chouinard - Escanaba Deborah Winn - Otsego Patricia Boyer - Cadillac Rev. Steven Lalone - Cadillac
We have a great group!
Jill
From U. S. Government sources.
The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. Free elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, saw the Sandinistas defeated, but voting in 2006 announced the return of former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt.