Open Hearts Nicaragua - Farrington Family

Open Hearts International had another successful year serving the most vulnerable and impoverished communities. The resources we provided also affected the families of our students, more specifically families who have children with special needs, pregnant and nursing mothers, and families trying to find their own home.

In 2023, Open Hearts International:

• Served 161,250 meals
• Provided education to 390 children
• Awarded scholarships to 210 students
• Helped 7 vulnerable children find full-time family support.
• Gave aid to 13 families with special needs and disabled children
• Provided consolation and assistance to 25 pregnant and nursing mothers
• Put 5 families into their first home
• Supported 17 churches along the Rio Coco in the indigenous region of Nicaragua.

This would not have happened without support from individuals like you. In 2024, we need your help to keep these efforts running and expand our mission. Our additional initiatives next year will include:

• Creating a home loan program for the families of our students at Club Esperanza, along with new textbooks for all our students.
• Roof repair and replacing lead pipes in our rescue homes, Casa Havilah and Casa Robles.
• Establishing more churches in Walakitang, a remote indigenous Miskito community on the Rio Coco that separates northern Nicaragua and southern Honduras.

If you would like to give before 2023 ends, you can find our donation information here. And, if you would like to get in contact with us for ways you can be involved next year please email us at losfarringtons@gmail.com

We Praise the Lord for all of these great projects that are helping to raise people out of poverty and be the touch from the Lord that many have been praying for. We thank you for your giving!

Chris & Kirsta Farrington

Merry Christmas!

We send our Christmas greetings to all of our family and friends. What a wonderful time of year, so many good things to celebrate and be thankful for. We love celebrating the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. This particular Bible verse from the Gospel of Matthew has really impacted our family this year…

Are you looking for a way to support children in need during this Christmas season? By donating to Open Hearts you can support children in Nicaragua’s poorest communities and impact hundreds of families.

This time of year often reminds us how fortunate we are and how others face seemingly endless cycles of poverty. When you join in supporting our mission here you make an immediate impact on these children’s lives and give them hope for a different future!

We had our annual Christmas party on Friday. What a very special time together! The Buzbee’s cooked up a big ham, we had lots of presents under the tree, caramel popcorn, singing and dancing. We just had a beautiful evening together laughing and celebrating the year as a big old extended family!

This is a great opportunity to give for #GivingTuesday, we could use your help!!! In just a couple weeks, we will be having a Christmas party for over 300 kids at Club Esperanza ! For many of our students, getting a Christmas present at our annual Christmas party is the only present they will get this year…so we need your help!

Will you make a $50 donation to make Christmas happen for our amazing kiddos?

You can find donation info by clicking on this link here, or use one of the buttons below…

Thank you friends!!!

We all know that the language of children is FUN!!! If you don’t know that already…well this is your first lesson in the language of children LOL! This past week we had some exciting activity going on out in Los Brasiles. We partnered with amazing friends at Feed The Hungry and Kids Around the World to bring an amazing American style playground to Club Cristiana Los Brasiles.

We have hundreds of children coming to our Kids Club in Los Brasiles everyday and they all love to run around and have fun…we have always made due with what we can get locally but the availability of getting this kind of playground in country was just not possible for us. But God has bigger plans!

We definitely have to start our little family update with this picture…Aliyah and Isabella lifted the championship trophy with the NCA Eagles in the annual Copa Bautista!!! The Lady Eagles hadn’t won a trophy in five years so they were so excited to play a part! Aliyah has been cemented as a starter at the right wing back position all season, and Isabella has gotten some solid substitute minutes as one of the youngest players on the team. For Aliyah this was her senior season, so it made it all the more special to bring home the trophy!!!

The month of September in Nicaragua is a month full of celebrations! We are so proud of all of our students and teachers as they go all out to join in the National Parades and Fiestas. If you knew where these kids come from…wow what a great great work the Lord has going on at Club Esperanza!!!

Nicaraguan Independence Day…our kiddos went out into the national parades and celebrated being Nicaraguan. These parades are held all over the nation in every neighborhood, and our kiddos from Club Esperanza took the lead in our neighborhood!

The culture is foreign, the terrain is difficult, the location is remote, the journey is grueling, the people are beautiful…there are souls crying out for their savior. The Miskito Indian communities along the Rio Coco in the North of Nicaragua are as remote as you can get and their way of life is one of a kind.

We have been supporting Pastor Victor and Verbo Church over the last decade to reach this region with Gospel of Jesus Christ. There are seventeen churches that have been planted! Amen Amen Amen.

This past weekend we had a little pool party/video game party/birthday party…it was just a big party day! We were excited to have our Casa Robles crew over for a visit, the boys love to spend hours in the pool and then immediately play video games together! Elery’s 13th birthday gave us the excuse to get together…oh yeah we had pizza too!!!