Parent, Mitch & Lori

We work with children and teenagers sharing with them the Word of God.
We also do discipleship training and work at Bible Camps.
We preach the gospel and produce gospel literature for distribution in Nicaragua and Honduras.

PRAYER ITEMS

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Oct 2022

True Love

In September, 37 high school students and five teachers from Carazo Christian Academy came to our place for a day camp. The theme was True Love. The first message was…

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Mar 2022

The effect the Gospel is having

This year is already jam-packed with commitments. We value your prayers for strength and endurance. Over the last few weeks, we have seen several new faces come to meetings or…

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Nov 2021

Some new titles

We continue to distribute tracts regularly. We are planning another printing in the early part of the new year. This will include some new titles and likely some titles that…

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Jun 2021

A goal for each believer

As a local church, we have set a goal for each believer to distribute 100 tracts every month. Each one decides to whom and where they will distribute the tracts.…

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Feb 2021

Daycamp

What a joy it was to see the yard come alive with children and teens attending a one-day camp in January. Please pray for fruit. The unsaved were pointed to…

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Jan 2021

Eta/Iota relief updates

We are in contact with the believers in Honduras who are coordinating the relief effort. Up until now, the focus has been on emergency relief in order to alleviate the…

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Dec 2020

First event of its kind

In late November, we held an event for troubled youth in northern Nicaragua, in coordination with several Government Ministries and also the National Police. About 90 youth, ranging from 13…

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Nov 2020

Update

Hurricane Iota was bigger and dumped a lot more rain on Nicaragua than Hurricane Eta did. Though as a whole Nicaragua was not hit extremely hard, there were some devastating…

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Nov 2020

HURRICANE IOTA

Via Mitch Parent – The destruction in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua and Puerto Lempira, Honduras was severe as Hurricane Iota made landfall as a Category 5, with winds up to 260…

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Nov 2020

HURRICANE ETA

(Via Mitch Parent, November 7) The major effects of hurricane ETA are in Honduras where there has been catastrophic flooding and landslides wiping out entire neighbourhoods. There are over 400…

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Nov 2020

Financial help during the pandemic

Mitch started meeting with people who do work around our house, involved in groundskeeping, maintenance, deliveries, or security. Most are believers and this work helps them financially during the pandemic.…

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Jul 2020

An investment of time and energy

Providing employment opens doors to sharing the Gospel. It reaches into families and communities. In anticipation of increasing need, we planted a few acres of beans near our home. As…

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Jul 2020

Not in the original syllabus

Please remember the believers in prayer. One brother is still in Honduras at the Discipleship Camp. Honduras is still under lockdown and the students have not had any time off…

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May 2020

A small token

Lori and our daughter Tamar have been doing a weekly run to distribute baked items and fruits from our property. Please pray for this effort. It is a small token…

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May 2020

Something real and worthwhile

Before the pandemic, a few people began to attend the meetings and we pray that the Spirit will work in their lives. The emptiness of religion takes a toll on…

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Dec 2019

Newborn believers

Over 20 people have professed faith in Christ over the year in Jinotepe. While we rejoice for the rescued souls, we are acutely aware of the enemy’s attacks against these…

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Jul 2019

Thirsty souls

A joint gospel effort of the assemblies in Dolores and Jinotepe began on July 15th. Two Salvadorian brothers have joined us once again for a two-week series of Gospel Meetings.…

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Jun 2019

Increasing attendance

Over the last few months attendance has been increasing at most of the meetings. At the Thursday outreach there are usually 20 unsaved and at Sunday gospel meetings there are…

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May 2019

‘Be prepared’

Mitch participated in a field security seminar. Having passed through the socio-political situation in 2018, we can confirm that ‘Be Prepared’ is a motto worth hanging onto.  Please pray for…

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Dec 2018

We were unsure

After the civil unrest, when the barricades came down and things started to normalize, we started up the Sunday School again. Though we had maintained contact with the kids, we…

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Apr 2018

On the frontlines

Back in 2017 a gospel effort was started in a community called La Granjita. The Gospel was preached weekly for almost four months. With the rains, it became difficult to…

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Dec 2017

Working with children

Working with children is very challenging and, considering the homes they come from, one cannot help but feel compassion for them. The spiritual poverty is even greater than the obvious…

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Nov 2017

Encouraging result

A couple of weeks of gospel meetings were held in Dolores with an encouraging result. Seven people from Dolores and five people from Jinotepe professed faith in Christ. [...]

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Jun 2017

Urgency

Another weeklong camp was held with 100 teens age 13+ in attendance. Two teenagers professed faith in Christ. One could not even wait until the end of meeting. As the…

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May 2017

Growing interest

We plan to renovate some of the main auditorium walls and the main exterior wall at our hall. Occasionally attendance to gospel meetings has exceeded 40. This month on two…

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Feb 2017

La Granjita

We have been praying for the opportunity to preach the Gospel in a small rural community nearby (La Granjita). Meetings began on February 1st with 35 unsaved present. [...]

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Jul 2016

More relevant tracts

Almost 85,000 tracts have been distributed in Nicaragua and Honduras. A few of us are writing new tracts to increase the variety and to have some tracts that are more…