With the dawning of each new day, it is a challenge for many children to even find enough food to survive. It’s a constant struggle! Many have to beg, to steal, or to do whatever it takes to survive another day in Nicaragua. Into this desperate backdrop of need New Hope’s Feeding Centers provides one meal each week to hundreds of children. No, that’s not much. To us, one good meal a week seems like nothing, but to some of the children who haven’t eaten one good meal all week, it’s a lot! Thirty-five cents a meal… that’s all it takes to provide each child a good meal of rice, beans, and something to drink. That’s hardly anything for us, but it seems like a fortune to the poor children and families living on the edge of poverty.

Besides receiving natural food, the most important aspect of a New Hope Feeding Center is the fact that a pastor is in charge of each Feeding Center. Each time the children come together, they receive far more than just natural food. They receive the Good News of our Savior’s love from a pastor who is in charge of that Feeding Center. What a blessing it is to minister to these precious children’s “natural” and “spiritual” needs! At New Hope, we wait, and as we wait, we pray that “someone” or a “church” or “ministry” will see the “empty table” and help New Hope supply meals each week to the children we are presently feeding and for the villages who are waiting with hungry children. Despite New Hope having very little money available to feed children, somehow, we manage to keep doing it. What do you say to pastors who have hungry children in their villages when they come to New Hope, almost begging us to feed children in their village? It’s so hard to say “No.” But, when you don’t even have enough money to take care of your present feeding program, it’s also quite difficult to say “Yes”! As much as we hate to say “No,” to adding additional Feeding Centers, that’s exactly where we are as New Hope currently does not have the necessary funds.

Please agree with us in prayer that God will “touch someone’s heart” so New Hope will have the finances to feed many more needy children. It’s such a shame for even one child to go to bed hungry when New Hope can feed that child one meal for only 35¢.