A Visual History of Seek The Lamb 1984 to Present

It has always been a team effort!

Nicaragua

 

 

Sunset over the Coco River looking toward Honduras.

 

 

We have been working on the Lower Coco River since 1984, one of the most isolated regions of Central America still without electricity, potable water or roads.

 

 

When we arrived in 1984, there was an active war going on between Sandinista and Cuban soldiers against the indigeous people, the Miskitos, who were resisting the Marxist government atheistic education, property confiscation, the killing of ccommunity leaders and destruction of 104 communities along the Rio Coco (1981-82).

 

 

The Miskito armed forces were volunteers with no formal training,

 

 

 

 

 

Michael and his friend Jimmy

 

 

This is the father of Rosa Albina, one of our teachers in Kiwastara. The Sandinistas came to Kiwastara (relocated on the Honduran side of the river) and selected 13 community leaders, lined them up, and shot them all. The bullet grazed his chest as he turned, and he survived. The others were killed. 

 

 

The refugee community of Ulwas, with their bamboo homes with leaf roofs.

 

 

Our first efforts were to get food, clothes and seeds to the refugee communities along the Kruta and Coco Rivers.

 

 

Our Bodega in Auka which served as our home, warehouse and tool room.

 

Washing clothes is a labor intensive chore

 

Cleaning rice is a daily actvity

 

Dugout canoes can be manufactured with a log, ac and machette

 

Beans are a stable of the diet of the Miskito people

in 1985, Augusto Vicente asked us to help him start a school in Sawa, as the children had not had school since the Sandinista revolution of July 1979. so we bought pencils, notebooks, plywood, blackboard paint and chalk and began out education project.

He is here with Michael and Truman meeting the students in Sih on the Honduran side of the Coco River.

 

Classes in Sawa in 1985

 

 

Our school in Sih 1986

 

Kiwastara school in 1987

 

Srumlaya school 1987

 

When the war ended in 1990, the new Ministry of Educaton under Huberto Belli, asked us to move across the river to the Nicaraguan side, and continue our primary school project in these communities and Kiwastara.

 

 

Jorge Moody teachs our students in Sih

 

Pablo Suarez teaches 2nd Grade in Sawa.

 

Sofia Borst teaches our students their memory verse.

 

Truman and Mirna Cunningham took very good care of us in during the war years, preparing our three meals daily.

 

Professor Victoria Palacios, of the National University in Tegucigalpa came to Auka four years in a row to train our teachers. She was one of the most respected educators in Latin America and author of her textbook series 'Collection Catrachitos'.

 

The result was many boy and gorls learned how to read, write, do math, understand their social studies, learn sections of the Bible, and grow up to be responsible adults and leaders in theior communities. One of our students from Utlamatha became the governor of the Autonomos Region Atlantic North.

 

 

Here are seven of our teachers in Sawa. Five are aour former First Grade Students!

 

 

Michael with six of our teachers- all began their education in our Project Ezra school in the 1980's!

 

Laura Uyeda joined our team in 1988, Here she is on her first trek fromTuralaya to Utlmatha.

 

We had candlelight dinners every night.

 

 

Oogly, our spider monkey.

 

Laura learned the Miskito language and started or Child Sponsorship program, which provided the funds to educate tens of thousands Miskito youth for 37 years.

 

Our students were always amazed that Laura could speak their language.

 

Michael worked with the teachers in organization and discipleship training and we baptized many.

 

 

 

Over the years we have had many pastor conference where all the pastors from the various churches (Moravian, Catholic, Baptist, Pentacostal) have gathered to hear teaching and encouragement from Craig Englert, Tom Keogh, Randy Smith, Michael Bagby and others.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Vero Beach