Members of First Baptist Church, Sherman, New York, took a weeklong missions trip in Nicaragua this fall.
The team met up with a missionary couple and then spent the week serving in the couple’s church. All week the team built an outdoor pavilion at the one-room church to give the congregation more meeting space and a classroom. But first, on a Sunday morning, the team attended a worship service there.
“A few years ago we were the church that bought them chairs, so we got to sit in the chairs that we bought them,” says Tim Minge, pastor of First Baptist.
He preached during the service, and the team gathered in small groups with the congregation to share prayer requests and pray for one another.
“One of my biggest takeaways was just that it reminded me how simple worship can be,” Tim says.
The Nicaragua church is young, but watching the church minister to its congregation and community is exciting, Tim says. “You get to see what church was meant to look like. . . . We add things that we think are necessary for church.” But in actuality, all we need are Bibles and people, he says.
