{"id":36865,"date":"2020-12-09T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/living_an_advent_of_solidarity_in_central_america_and_the_caribbean\/"},"modified":"2020-12-09T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T23:25:53","slug":"living_an_advent_of_solidarity_in_central_america_and_the_caribbean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalministries.org\/living_an_advent_of_solidarity_in_central_america_and_the_caribbean\/","title":{"rendered":"Living an Advent of Solidarity in Central America and the Caribbean"},"content":{"rendered":"

He said, \u201cI am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, \u2018Make straight the way of the Lord,\u2019\u201d as the prophet Isaiah said. <\/em>John 1:23 (NRSV)<\/p>\n

\u201cPastor, it is like getting into the dessert.\u00a0 Everything is down.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 That was one of the commentaries I received from the Reverend Mauricio Largaespada, President of the Christian Mission of Nicaragua.\u00a0 He accompanied a delegation from that Church into a trip to their congregations in the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast.\u00a0 They once looked at buildings, temples, and houses.\u00a0 Now, there was only sky and ground, with debris all over it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this time of Advent, the Municipality of Rosita entered into a strange and painful time of preparation for the birth of Jesus Christ in the community.\u00a0 John the Baptist indeed would have serious complications raising his voice, crying out, \u201cMake straight the way of the Lord<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0 It is not easy to do it through broken roads, fallen bridges, and overflowing rivers through the Waspam community.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Hurricanes ETA and Iota came with strong winds and rains, announcing terrible news of destruction and sorrow with only three weeks of difference between the passing of them through Nicaraguan soil.\u00a0 Now, John the Baptist would have to cross rivers through improvised hanging bridges, or even bamboos sunk to the bottom of the river, which would serve him as stilts, to reach the other side.\u00a0 And he would enter into Miskito communities and hear from them how they lost much of their rice harvest this year.\u00a0 They are also facing a critical time for planting beans.\u00a0 Food insecurity could be a stressful factor for months to come.<\/p>\n

The Christian Mission Convention of Nicaragua and the Moravian Development Association of the Moravian Church took the road of John the Baptist, announcing a spirit of preparedness for the Savior to come into those Central American lands.\u00a0 With a gesture of solidarity, they walked there. They delivered 1,000 bags of food and medicines, and clothes to hundreds of families and people of communities like \u201cRisco de Oro,\u201d \u201cRosario,\u201d and \u201cCucalapa.\u201d\u00a0 Bags full of sugar, salt, spaghetti, matches, coffee, cleaning products, and first aid kits would address some of their pressing needs at this moment.\u00a0 Prayer, tears, hugs, and presence would be signs of togetherness amid sorrow and despair.\u00a0 Also, churches and ecumenical organizations will need to be attentive to their most pressing issues.\u00a0 The need for immediate purchase of clean water and food, getting farms working again, cleaning out wells contaminated by raw sewage, and obtaining building materials in place, sets the agenda for an Advent of hard work there.<\/p>\n

Week of Compassion, Global HOPE, and Global Ministries join our Partners in Nicaragua and Honduras, so their walk announcing the Good News can be a reality in troubled times.\u00a0 Our appeal to all of you is to continue praying and standing in solidarity.\u00a0 We continue sowing seeds of hope and new beginnings with our Partners there.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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