News Release: New Book Continues Nehemiah Center Story
The Nehemiah Center, a Christian non-government organization, has just announced the release of a second book about its work transforming lives in both Nicaragua and North America: To Be Reborn by Carol Van Klompenburg. As a sequel to Van Klompenburg’s earlier book, On Mended Wings about the first ten years of the Nehemiah Center, the […]
Hurricane Response From Nehemiah Center is to Provide Trauma Healing
In the first two weeks of November eastern Nicaragua was hit by two consecutive category 4 hurricanes, Eta and Iota. In some areas, waves greater than 10 meters (33 feet) destroyed entire communities, and high winds and flooding caused enormous destruction. In the aftermath of these unprecedented storms, Steve Holtrop, Nicaragua Country Consultant for Resonate […]
Effective Preaching in Nicaragua
On Saturday, August 3 the Nehemiah Center hosted its first training for lay preachers, entitled Eight Elements of Effective Preaching. These eight elements were first introduced during the Vision Table for Preaching Peace this spring, and were very well received by the pastors. During follow-up visits many pastors commented that they wished others in their […]
Fellowship Sundays: learning to build community through potlucks.
One of the goals of the Church Friendship Program at the Nehemiah Center is to provide opportunities for churches to learn from each other. Pastors from Chinandega were able to visit Pella in May 2018, and they continue to testify about the transformative experience they had. What they saw in Pella has inspired them to […]
Preaching Peace
For the second year the Nehemiah Center partnered with Street Psalms to offer the Vision Table. This is a time for pastors and leaders in Managua to gather for discussion, prayer, and visioning over an issue affecting their city. Twenty pastors and leaders gathered at the Nehemiah Center for six-weeks in March and April to […]
United through Prayer
Adolfo Quiroz and his wife, Martha Arcia, have been in ministry for 25 years, and arrived at the Central Church of God in Chinandega in 2009, where they were introduced to the Nehemiah Center through programs about a healthy church, HIV/AIDS, family violence, and marriage conferences. They began the friendship with Faith Church in Pella, […]
IMPACT Clubs are changing lives in Nicaragua
It was a dusty road we took to the church, plastic chairs in which we sat outside and talked, the roosters crowing with an occasional firework blast thrown in the mix, all in the intense heat of Leon’s afternoon sun, might make you feel that it’s very different from your known context. Even so, this […]
Better Churches, Better Neighborhoods
Harold Sanchez is the pastor at New Jerusalem Church in one of the most populated neighborhoods in Managua: Villa Venezuela, it is also one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the capital city. “Here there is a lot of drugs, many unoccupied youth, lots of robberies and delinquency” describes Pastor Harold. But in this difficult […]
Powerful Possibilities in Nicaragua
Nella Sandrock was a member of the Resonate Global Mission Come & See team with the purpose of visiting the Nehemiah Center in Nicaragua. The team of 11 people spent 8 days in February traveling to different places in Nicaragua learning about the programs and ministry of the Nehemiah Center. Nella shares with us her experience […]
Gilberto & Nuria, Part 2: Rediscovering their Marriage after an Empty-nest
As a teenager in the church Centro de Fe y Vida Nueva, Gilberto first fell in love with Nuria’s feet. As he stared at rows of shoes and socks of his peers in youth group, he decided that Nuria was the girl for him. However, Nuria didn’t feel the same. She rejected him for over […]