Mission trip to Nicaragua and more

My Friends and Supporters,

The week of the 8th I went on a mission with a 5 man youth group to Managua, Nicaragua for 6 days. It was led by Gabriel, (in blue) who is a Costa Rica missionary working in Managua most of this coming year.

The first day, we went to the city dump where hundreds of people work (daily) and a lot of them are children. We walked around the dump handing out water, praying for people, witnessing to those who where hungry and just loving those that didn't have Jesus. Most of the group had never been out of Costa Rica, let a lone ministered in such filth, (which was hardly noticed), as the Holy Spirit led the way !

We ministered in three different poor Barrios (communities). In each case we ended up sharing the Gospel with moms and families after or while we played games with the children.

Usually around 30 to 50 children would just kinda show up after we turned on the music, (the van has a speaker). then as we started playing games, more would come. After the games were over we'd divide the children in to two age groups and have a Bible study on the street, (Nobody left), it was awesome watching them soak in the gospel. We gave track and candy to all.

We also took two days and painted 5 classrooms at the school across from Calvary Chapel in Managua which is where we stayed at the 5 days we where in Managua.

The team took turns giving the morning bible study at the community kitchen where Calvary provides breakfast for the hungry 6 days a week!

I pray that all of you that have read this will be blessed through our mission in Costa Rica!

Because of you all of the above is possible with the love of Jesus Christ and God pointing the way.

I thank you from the bottom of my heart and through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Bruddah Keith

Please send your support to,Commission To Every Nation, = "CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029"...please send in all support by the 24th for that months disbursement. Make your check out to CTEN with a side note with my name on it, (not on the check).

A YEARS BLESSINGS

HAPPY NEW YEAR.... 2007

I PRAY THIS NEW YEAR BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO GOD AND IN SO DOING, I PRAY HE WILL BLESS YOUR YEAR ABUNDANTLY.

HERE A A FEW PICTURES ABOUT THE REASON FOR THE SEASON, AND MY MISSION!!!!

THIS IS (6 )YEAR OLD FATIMA WHO HAS JUST GRADUATED FROM KINDER. SHE LIVES WITH HER MOM AND FOUR SISTERS IN A SMALL TWO ROOM SHACK IN LOS GUIDO. I STARTED MINISTERING WITH THEM OVER (3) YEARS AGO HELPING THEM IN MANY WAYS, FROM CONSTRUCTION TO FOOD AND MEDICINE, BUT FOREMOST THROUGH THE WORD OF GOD. THREE OF HER FOUR SISTERS ALSO GRADUATED THIS YEAR, ALL WITH A (B-) OR BETTER. FATIMA AND HER SISTERS THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT IN SUPPLYING THEIR SCHOOL SUPPLIES AS NEED.

THIS COMING YEAR WE HAVE A CHANCE TO HELP ANOTHER 28 CHILDREN (OR MORE) WITH THEIR SCHOOL NEEDS. PLEASE KEEP THAT IN PRAYER!

I JUST DELIVERED THIS BUNK BED TO THIS FAMILY IN LOS GUIDO. I HAD PROMISED THEM ONE THIS YEAR WHEN WE INSTALLED THE OTHER TEN THIS PAST JULY IN THEIR AREA. I HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO HELP THIS FAMILY FOR THE PAST (3 )YEARS INCLUDING HELPING HER FOUR CHILDREN WITH SCHOOL SUPPLY. THEY HAVE ALL ACCEPTED JESUS IN THERE HEARTS AND LIVE AS EXAMPLES. THE TWO GIRLS (7 & 13)SETTING WITH THEIR MOM HAVE SHARED A SMALL BED SINCE THEY WERE BORN, AND BECAUSE OF YOUR HEARTS TO HELP MY MISSION, THEY NOW HAVE THERE OWN BEDS TO SLEEP IN!! ......THAT'S THEIR HOME.

BELOW ARE THREE "BIBLE STUDIES" THAT WERE STARTED AND CONTINUE, BECAUSE OF YOUR SUPPORT OF MY MISSION WITH GOD IN COSTA RIC!! THE FIRST TWO ARE IN LOS GUIZAROS AND THE OTHER IN CASA C.A.F.E. (MEN'S RE-HAP CENTER) IN CORONADO. THE FIRST PICTURE IS STEPHANIE TEACHING CHILDREN 8 AND UNDER ABOUT THE BIBLE WHILE THE OLDER KIDS ARE IN THE CLASSROOM AND THEN THE MEN AT CASA C.A.F.E. WHICH IS TAUGHT BY BRAIN WHO IS AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY AND PASTOR HEADING TO AFRICA IN APRIL 2007.

I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE THANKS TO THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO HELPED ME TEACH THE BIBLE STUDIES AND LED THE MUSIC MINISTRY IN LOS GUIZAROS & THE RE-HAB CENTER, WITH OUT THEIR HELP, I COULD NOT HAVE STARTED THESE STUDIES AS MY SPANISH IS NOT THAT GOOD YET.

THANK YOU, CINDI, STEPHANIE, REBECA, KATIA, GABRIEL, CECILIA, (THOSE ARE ALL COSTA RICA)....MARK & ADRENNE, LEITH & AMY, PASTOR BRIAN AND ALL THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY'S THAT HAVE HELPED THESE PAST TWO YEAR AT LOS GUIZAROS AND CASA C.A.F.E.!!

I WELCOME BRIAN AND HIS WIFE ROBIN ABOARD AS THE NEW MUSIC LEADERS IN LOS GUIZAROS ...THANK YOU!!

ON DEC 24, A CHRISTMAS BLESSING COME TRUE FOR (85) CHILDREN THAT LIVE IN ONE OF THE POOREST PARTS OF COSTA RICA!!

....I WENT WITH A CECILIA (FROM LOS GUIZAROS, 5:AM) AND HER FAMILY TO A SMALL VILLAGE IN "LIMON" ON THE CARIBBEAN COAST OF COSTA RICA (ABOUT 4 HOURS)TO DELIVER PRESENTS AND HAVE A CHRISTMAS FIESTA WITH THESE CHILDREN AND MOMS. WE PRAYED , SUNG SONGS, PLAYED GAMES, EAT LUNCH, GAVE A PRESENT TO EACH CHILD AND MOMS. THIS IS AN AREA WHERE THEY GROW MOST OF THE BANANAS IN COSTA RICA AND THEY WORK SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AT TIMES,(THAT'S WHY THERE WERE NO FATHERS AT THE FIESTA)

WE THANK ALL THOSE THAT GAVE PRESENTS AND PRAYED FOR THESE CHILDREN!!

THE ABOVE ARE JUST A FEW HIGH LIGHTS. THEIR IS MUCH MORE TO GIVE THANKS FOR, AND I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR PART IN THIS MISSION.

PLEASE PRAY FOR NEXT YEAR AND THE BLESSING THAT ARE IN STORE THROUGH OUR LORD.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL THIS COMING YEAR WITH HEALTH AND PROSPERITY AS YOU WALK WITH JESUS CHRIST IN TO THIS NEW YEAR.

YOUR BROTHER AND FRIEND IN CHRIST,
BRUDDAH KEITH

Please send your support to,Commission To Every Nation, = "CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029"...please send in all support by the 24th for that months disbursement. Make your check out to CTEN with a side note with my name on it, (not on the check).

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2006

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007

My Dear Friends and Supporters:

I pray this Christmas will be one of the best you’ve ever had as we celebrate our Lord and Saviors Birthday in remembrance of our salvation and the joy that awaits us all in eternity with Jesus Christ
I know we all had ups and downs, but the bottom line is that our faith in Christ will help us through all adversity. I hope this past year had many blessing for you and your families just as your prayers and support blessed many families here in Costa Rica.

God blessed our mission abundantly throughout the year despite a few drawbacks, which all turned out to be blessing in disguise one way or another! Praise God.

One of the many things I learned (again) this year is that my main reason for being here (and all Christians everywhere) is to plant seeds. Works are secondary

As your reading this, are mission is helping prepare a Christmas Celebration in Los Guizaros. Sat, Dec 23, (For those that remember, last year we had over 300 people attend). This year we will have approx 300 children and 200 parents!!
Cecelia is, and has the past two years put this together with the help of other families in the community, and with the help of our mission in supplying gifts. Please keep this in prayer as we’re coming up a little short this year.

So many blessing this year:


>>2o children are sleeping in there own beds as we built and installed 10 bunk beds with mattresses, thanks to the team from Texas.




>>>The community Center in Los Guizaros was remodeled with a boys and girls bathroom and a class room, electrical installed throughout and new front stairs thanks to the team from Faith Baptist Church in Tenn. (with the help from team Texas) And while all the construction was going on they did a VBS outreach which touched hundreds of children’s lives.


>>> We help provide lunch 6 days a week for 35 to 80 children (sometimes 100 or so) in Los Guizaros.
For about 20% of the children, it’s their only meal of the day!!





A weekly bible Study was started in May at Los Guizaros, ages 8 – 14, which is still going strong today, and if all goes right an Adult Bible study will start in January 01.

>>>>> Are mission helps weekly with the daily needs at a men’s re-hab center (CASA C.A.F.E.) with rice, clothes, Bibles, counseling and recently a weekly bible Study taught by another missionary, (Jason) who’s a pastor and heading on mission in Africa next April with his wife and son.



Of the approx 30 men that have come and gone from the center this year ,,,, Nine are doing great!! The others are struggling but in general staying in touch as they know what’s needed…CHRIST!!!


>>>>>>. Casa Cuba, Our mission helped over a hundred families make it through this past year as they slept and survived living on the streets under plastic tents. We helped with food, water, medicine, building material and clothes, but the most rewarding aspect of it all was the overall acceptance of Christ and the blessings of or God!!!



>>We helped with a medical outreach provided by a local doctor for one day in Los Guizaros, which saw over 153 people, (mainly children)!! P.S. Medical teams are welcome!!!! Call me!


>>>We provided school cloths and supply for 24 children last school year thanks to many of you and especially to "Jo Ann" who supports one child every month for this purpose.



When the new school year starts in February I have a list of about 26 children that will need help.(About $2,400.00…) I have $800.00 saved for this ministry. Please keep this in prayer!!







building a Stairway: I was able to help a community build a stairway down a very steep and muddy (when raining) walk way that is used by 7 families, (about 30 people) and a lot of children.

The Children celebrating the opening of the new walkway....Ice cream is a must!!!




>>. We started helping in a new ministry 4 months ago. It’s a day care center that cares for over 100 children each day. 48 children are funded through a government program for the poor that have jobs and qualify, the rest are there because of the heart of the woman running it not to let one child be left alone at home while the parent or parents are working or trying to find work. We supply 100# of rice every month, bananas weekly + repair work as needed (a lot) and used toys as I find them. Tables and chairs are needed for the children to Study on, that come from school and wait four or six hours to be picked up. She feeds the children B+L+D and snacks using her own money as needed.

There are a lot more blessing that happened this past year, but these represent my basic mission work here.

I praise God for all of you in helping through PRAYER and SUPPORT of this mission that started so precariously 4 years ago this coming March.

Again I wish you all a blessed:
MERRY CHRISTMAS & A HAPPY NEW YEAR
God Bless you, Bruddah Keith

Praise God, as He prepared the way!!!

P.S. I have my SUV 4x4 Galloper. This is a present to me and my mission needs from all of you and God..... Thank You

Please send your support to,Commission To Every Nation, = "CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029"...please send in all support by the 24th for that months disbursement. Make your check out to CTEN with a side note with my name on it, (not on the check).

IN GOD'S TIMING UPDATE, NOV 15, 2006

Hello my Friends and Supporters,

I pray that the blessings of our God surround you more and more as we learn to trust and submit to the Lord our God an a daily basis.

God's timing is everything, from when He opened the door for me to go on mission with Him, to what happened tonight. . .
I was taking medicine to a family in Los Guido tonight for a little girl who has been very sick and not sleeping because of a cough and bronchitis. It was 7:20 in the evening, raining hard, and I was one hour late! As I arrived another mom, Maria, and her son came up to my car and asked where I was going. Her 6 year old son had just fallen while playing on his bed and cut his face next to his eye. I looked at it, and stitches were needed, another 1/4 inch and he wouldn't have a eye, The closest emergency clinic is about 4 miles away in the rain. In my lateness I was on time in God's timing in helping His children. I took them to the clinic and he will be fine. Praise God.
That pretty much sums up a big part of mission work. "In God's Timing", we need to always be ready to change direction when God calls without getting hung up on timing and our needs.

Three weeks ago God put another mission area in front of us in Los Guido.
It's a day care center in Los Guido that serves around 100 children daily. It is run by a woman who started it 6 years ago. The government funds about 43 of the children on a monthly basis through a program set up to help the families that live in poverty, but have jobs. Most are single, divorced or just left behind moms with 1 to 5 children who wouldn't be able to work because of their children at home and no place for the children to hang out at until MOM gets home from work. The other 50 or so children are there because she doesn't want one child to be left alone day or night, and so she uses her money and time to help as many as she can.
They run low on food weekly, have plumbing that needs repair, roof leaks, not enough toys for the children to keep busy, not enough tables and chairs, mostly they sit on mats on the floor, but there are not enough mats. Sometimes not enough cribs for the small babies, but she takes them in because she fears that they will be mistreated or neglected otherwise.
I've introduced her to Feed the Hungry Foundation which is helping feed the children lunch 6 days a week in Los Guizaros, and I think they might help with some food. Please pray that Feed the Hungry will feel led to help. We have already temporarily repaired the drainage problem, but the piping needs to be replaced. We have been able to provide some basic medical supplies, band aids, antibiotic cream, children's aspirin, Tylenol, anti-diarrhea medicine, cough medicine and lice shampoo which was brought by Team Tennessee in August. Praise God.

Two weeks ago we finished building the new stairway in Los Guido with the help of 3 local men. After we finished we all prayed and gave thanks. This will help about 40 people
(6 families) on a daily basis get to the main street and up the hill.

As I finished loading my tools in my car, I went in a nearby store for a coke and when I came out, my backpack had been stolen with my camera and some other items. Talk about spiritual warfare!!... I went from happy to ugly really quick. Yes, because it was stolen, but mainly because I left it where I shouldn't have...my fault!!! For awhile I was upset, then I just turned it over to God, as there was nothing I could do, and that's pretty much a waste of time/. Sooo.. no new photos until further notice!:>(

Great News. Three weeks ago we were able to start a weekly Bible Study at the Men's rehab Center, Casa C.A.F.E., because Jason, a fellow missionary, has volunteered to teach every Friday It has been a wonderful success, as the men embrace the Word with a passion and as they learn to trust God with their sobriety. The rehab center has been turning men away because they do not have room to accommodate them. There is a great need for an addition to their sleeping space, bathroom area and kitchen location. Not only is there a current need, but an inspector from the government has given them one year to upgrade or they will be shut down. This is a great short term mission project for a construction evangelistic team. Approx. 24'x24' with a three toilets, three showers, two sinks and one urinal. The bathroom well be extended out from the back side approx. 6' x 18' .
If this is a mission that interests you, please contact me for construction details and mission team cost and schedules.

OK , Now for the fun stuff. Christmas is close, we work with three ministries with over 400 children involved. For about $3.50 per child, we can prepare a wonderful gift package for each child. Thank you in advance for your prayers and your hearts to serve His Children.

Praises:
*God's continued blessings in and through our ministry here.
*Help for the Day Care in Los Guido through Feed the Hungry.
*Stairway finished at Los Guido.
*Men's Bible Study at Casa C.A.F.E.
*The continued financial and prayer support from my friends and co-laborers.
* The opportunity to buy a bigger vehicle in Dec.
* Continued support for Los Guizaros where we feed the children lunch 6 days a week.

Needs:
#Plumbing repairs to the Day Care Center in Los Guido = Approximately $100.00
#Addition to the men's rehab center Casa C.A.F.E. = Approximately $4,000 with the help of a work team.
#Christmas gift bags for the children = $3.50 each for 100-400 children
# 95 Galluper, SUV 4x4 , diesel, 5 speed = $4000.00
# Funds to buy more Spanish Bibles = $5.00 each

God Bless You with your needs
Bruddah Keith

http://keithbritton.blogspot.com/

P.S. Send in all support to: CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029. Make the check out to CTEN, with a side note with my name on it and /or for a specific use. Please send all support in by the 25th for that months disbursement. Thank you.

Sept and Oct, 2006 Mission update

October 23, 2006








My Dear Friends and Supporters,
I pray this finds you all in joy through God's blessings in your lifes.
Three weeks ago I was able to build wooden stairs over (9) cement stairs, that acted more like a waterfall when it rained, and was a hazard to people walking on them, besides getting very wet. I hired a local man to help me, (He lived in Casa Cuba on the street with his wife and four children) as I was still sick with Bronchitis and had no energy, but this needed to be completed before I went to Nicaragua. It has started raining really hard every day, so this was a blessing for all..)




Two weeks ago I went to Nicaragua for (1) week to renew my visa for another 3 months. (You have to stay out of the country for 3 days every 3 months to renew a visa. I stayed at Calavary Chapel in Managua, while I was there I installed some fans, lights and a door in their school directers office. The school has about 120 students, which Calvary pays a large portion of there tuition every year as mostly their very poor. Praise God!!....Great Place to visit:>)






Casa Cuba......Before and after!!
Now here's a blessing I found out about after I came back from Nicaragua.
The government (in wanting to get these families off the street) had paid all of them enough money to pay rent on a house for the next three months. So my first visit back from Managua to Casa Cuba I found nobody there, no tents, nothing, accept garbage on the street.
This was a sight to see after two years of over 100 families living in shacks on the streets. I was over joyed. What they will do after three months is the question?
Please pray for jobs and housing for all these families.




More blessings; Los Guizaros.......
"Food for the Hungry Mission" has been providing enough vegetables, (potatoes, squash, cabbage, pineapple, platanos and other foods common to Costa Rica) two help for two weeks, every two weeks in feeding the children in Los Guidzaros. This has improved there diet every day. Their are still many needs for this ministry, one being, "remodeling the small kitchen area in the center with a stove, refrigerator, counters and plumbing so that all the preparation and cooking and clean up can be done on site."

Due to the hard work of mission teams from Tenn and Texas that helped remodel the Community Center this past August. We are now using the other room we built, to teach the youth Bible Studies which reduces the distractions from the younger children who are in the big room having there own style of Bible Study for children.

“Ministry C.A.F.E.”, The Men’s Rehab Center in Coronado is being blessed with a weekly Bible Study, starting this week. It will be taught by an advanced student from the Spanish Language School I attended three years ago. God continues to bless these men in there quest for a drug alcohol free life based on a relationship with Christ. We have not picked an afternoon yet, but we will be going up every week to teach the study and minister to these men.
A major need for this ministry is a room addition, as they need more room and a real bedroom with bathroom and shower area and bunk beds for up to 20 men. This would be a great project for a short term mission team or I can build it for about $3500.00, complete with bunk beds.
Please pray on this.

I just got back from Jaco Beach. (It's on the Pacific coast, about 3 hours from my home.) I was helping a Pastor friend and his family (Michael and Reeve and there two girls) finish a storage room on there house. They're from a Calvary Chapel in Florida and have been on mission in Costa Rica for about 1&1/2 years. A mission team from there home church had started the project, but had to leave before it was finished. I was blessed in going there, as it was a blessing fellow shipping with Pastor Mike and his wife Revae and playing with their children.
There is another project I've agreed to help with at Jaco Beach in the near future.
A local family has weekly bible studies and fellowship meeting at there home, but getting to the house is a bit tricky as you have to walk across a high creek bed over a very old and narrow bridge, about 35 feet long. Some families that would like to come to the meeting can't bring there children in fear of falling off the bridge. Mike's home church has left enough funds to build a new bridge across the creek similar to the one I built in Los Guido last year.

Photos of Jaco Beach, the Pastors family, the bridge to be replaced, building the roof, the beach and some local children.



Please send your support to,
Commission To Every Nation, = "CTEN, P.O. Box 291307, Kerrville, TX 78029"...please send in all support by the 24th for that months disbursement. Make your check out to CTEN with a side note with my name on it, (not on the check).