NCA News

Alumni and Constituency Newsletter
Nicaragua Christian Academy
Managua, Nicaragua

April 2009

Vocational Education Class

During the first semester of this year, a class that had not been taught for many years was revived.  Called Educación Práctica (Vocational Education), the class was taught by our own maintenance staff and directed by Mr. Edgard Fajardo.  It provided the opportunity for each of our workers to share their talents and abilities with our students.

The seven students in this class learned skills in the areas of electrical installation, gardening and woodworking.  As part of their learning, José Angel Luna taught the students how to make wooden chairs and their projects are now being used in the preschool wing.  And as part of the gardening unit, José Medina taught the students how to grow plants from seedlings.

This class exemplifies a unique quality of our school.  We are committed to hiring qualified Christian men and women as teachers for our students.  However, this practice extends beyond our faculty body to all 104 staff members in the school.  Each security guard, maintenance worker and member of our office staff is committed to serving Jesus Christ by word and example, and they all have a desire to help our students grow closer to the Lord each day.

"How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity." -- Psalm 133:1

Poetry Night

The first phase of the Fine Arts Center was completed in October 2008, and we anticipate beginning the second phase as soon as we have the needed funds.  The second phase will cost approximately $180,000 and will include vocal and instrumental music rooms, the main auditorium entrance, restrooms, the second story balcony, control booth, recording studio and additional offices.  Our parents and teachers continue to come up with creative ways to raise funding for this project.

On March 6, our school held a Poetry Night for our parents as a fundraiser for the continued construction of the NCA Fine Arts Center.  It was a wonderful evening of music and literary performances.  Many of our school parents performed works of poetry and music, displaying amazing talent and captivating the audience with their pieces.

Our students volunteered as servers for the tables where their parents and teachers enjoyed the evening, serving Salvadoreñan pupusas and donated desserts.  It was a privilege to see our students in the role of waiting on the tables, a rare opportunity for them to experience a more professional work experience.

We have already collected approximately $40,000 toward this second phase goal.  If you would be able to support the construction of the Fine Arts Center with a gift of $50 or more, please visit our website at www.nca.edu.ni and click on School Needs.

Pastors Conference

By Troy and Ginnette Doudy
Missionary family at Nicaragua Christian Academy
Serving with Assemblies of God World Missions

Every year the national Nicaragua Assemblies of God has a Pastors conference with up to 5000 people in attendance. For the past seven years we have opened our home to the pastors of the Southern Caribbean Coast. Every year it has been an incredible blessing to have the opportunity to spend time with these friends of ours. We attend the conference together, eat together, spend time getting to know each other better and pray together. Without the opportunity to stay in our home many of these pastors and families would not be able to attend this conference. Every night seeing these pastors up front at the altar seeking God for fresh anointing and God's direction is more then worth any extra work involved in hosting them. It was hard dropping many of them off at the bus station knowing that they had a two day or three day journey home traveling by bus, panga, and boat. The last night of the Conference several of the Bluefields Bible School students and former students came forward to recieve their ministerial credentials.

Most of our ministry is focused on the southern Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua. We are establishing churches, training leaders, and touching compassionately by any available means. There are three key ministries that we are involved with: the Bluefields Bible School to train leaders, the New Jerusalem Evangelical Center to send out new pastors, and the New Jerusalem Radio station to proclaim the Gospel to the entire Southern Caribbean Coast.

When we first arrived in Nicaragua as missionaries we decided that we would live in Managua and would travel to do ministry. The reason we made this decision was because of NCA.s quality of education and strong Christian values that are taught and lived out by the staff. Now ten years later our two oldest daughters have graduated from NCA and our son is in his junior year. We can say that this was the best decision we could have made for our family.  NCA has helped us educate and train our children in the Christian walk, as we have established churches, trained leaders, and reached out through compassion ministries (www.doudynicaragua.org).

Prayer and Praise

• Praise...
• Pray...
• Pray that Nicaragua Christian Academy and NCA Nejapa will be effective in raising up leaders ready and willing to transform their communities and make decisions of integrity based upon God's Word.
• Pray for the country of Nicaragua in the midst of difficult economic and political circumstances.