One of my clients is a ministry to Nicaragua called Verbo Nicaragua Development Fund.  The director has asked me to go to Managua in August to give a seminar in basic accounting to some of the micro-businesses the ministry has helped start up.  He told me that many people in Nicaragua have no concept of simple profit and loss principles, even the one that says you have to sell something for more than it costs you in order to make a profit.

This is exciting to me.  I am not sure God orchestrates our lives in a puppeteer fashion, but I do believe he has circumstances arise which give us choices, and opportunities.  I am just so happy that I will get to visit a prospective retirement country and do something good while I am there. Next step is to come up with about $1,000 to go!

Now I have to overcome my fear of public speaking, and figure out what I am going to say in a couple of days in order to teach these people some accounting! 

At least I have a few months to figure it out, and to learn as much as possible about Nicaragua.  I might even be able to get my Spanish skills up by then!