From Nicaragua

<p>When I was just twenty-eight years old I was diagnosed with cancer and given no hope. What I thought would be my end was just the beginning of a journey laden with miracles that took me far from my home in Tennessee. <em>From Nicaragua: Principles for Life and Mission</em> chronicles that journey. It is a story that begins with a love that God gave me for a place I had never been and for a people I did not know.</p> <p>With nothing more than that love I purposed in my heart to go to Nicaragua to stand with its people in their struggle to make a better life for themselves. Following that commitment God made provision for the planting of a ministry there that has changed tens of thousands of lives including mine. For me a special part of that divine provision proceeded from a miraculous reunion with my Central American family whose patriarch Col. John Alexander Downing traveled to Nicaragua in 1866 with a fellow Missourian who later became renowned as one of America's most famous literary icons.</p> <p>Embedded in this extraordinary story of God events are principles for your life and mission.</p>