Open Hearts Nicaragua - Farrington Family

We have some amazing news! We’ve had an 1800 square foot wood shop donated to Ruby Ranch! The shop is fully equipped and ready to roll…we just need to move it…all the equipment, and the building! Our dream and vision for the Ranch is to be a place that has a life long impact for the Kingdom of God, this development fits right in! There are so many possibilities…can’t you see an operating shop at the Ranch, producing top quality furniture distributed all over Nicaragua, produced by the hands of young men and women coming out of poverty and creating a future for themselves? We love that dream! Discipling these young men and women is always going to be the top priority of our hearts, and we know God will take care of the rest…and we know Jesus loved carpenters!!!

Here is Krista’s brother Brinson with a short video…no that isn’t snow in the video, it is saw dust! We can only dream of snow down here LOL!

We would love to have your help to move the shop! Maybe you can make this part of your year end giving or something that is part of a legacy impact around the word…or even if you just love the idea and want to give a little…please do! Everything that happens down here is because of the generosity of people like you all around the world! Praise the Lord!

The cost to move the shop is $8,000

You can find the info for donating via check here, or use one of the buttons below…Thank you!

As the summer comes to an end and everyone heads back to school back home we wanted to take some time here on our blog to share about some of the happenings down here in Nicaragua this summer. It was a summer full of friends from North Carolina, Colorado, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, California and many cities in between! The past few years of a global pandemic made travel to Nicaragua very difficult, but this summer we were so blessed to have friends return and serve with us! Quinta Havilah was busy again and we loved every minute of it!

Can you help us send our teachers and staff on a weekend retreat to Ruby Ranch?

We have an absolutely amazing group of women and men who work and serve at Club Esperanza. They make great sacrifices to get there every day, their hearts are full of God’s love for the most vulnerable, they are skilled in both intellect and street smarts, they love Jesus first…and are committed to seeing God’s Kingdom come and His Will be done, on earth in this La Chureca community, as it is in Heaven.

Aliyah and Mason will be spending this summer in the good ol’ United States of America. I just got home from our adventure for the big drop off while Krista kept the home front in Nicaragua under control with Isabella and Juliette. It was a great trip together, but you all must know that our daddy and mommy hearts are pretty sad to do this for the first time. Saying goodbye for two month was a little emotional for both of us, but we know God has so much in store for them! Will you please keep our babies in your prayers this summer…ask God to keep them safe, but also give them great times and great memories!

In the Spring we put into motion some great and exciting things for the future. Our friends Brad and Meg from Love Light and Melody partnered with EMI to do some big time planning. Architects, Engineers, designers and dreamers got together to begin a Master Plan for Ileana’s School at Club Esperanza.

Today is THE day in Nicaragua! Mother’s Day is so important here that all of the schools are closed and most stores close for the day…we think this is pretty awesome! And we want to recognize and celebrate Mama Angelica today. We had a great lunch out yestereday…to beat the “30 de Mayo” crowds…and had a wonderful time at Mi Vieja Managua restaurant downtown.

This is such a fun photograph from Night to Shine here in Nicaragua a few years ago. Teresa and her daughter Connie, heading down the red carpet! Connie is a beautiful young lady wonderfully made in the Image of God and her mother Teresa is an absolute champion of a mother and friend and hard worker in ministry at Club Esperanza!

Connie is 15 years old now and her health is definitely a challenge for Teresa to handle as a single mother. But Teresa fights and pushes through daily difficulties and some of life’s hardest questions…she loves and cares for her baby girl.

We are so very blessed by our friends, supporters and family who keep us in their prayers, donate to support our ministry, and love on us any time that you can. We want you to know that we are very thankful for that and do not take it for granted! Time flies sometimes and we let it pass without sharing updates on the different goings on, so in this blog post we want to catch up a little. Some might call it a mosaic, but we are ok to call it a scatter brained update on life in Nicaragua…Praise the Lord!

As you may know we are working towards a future of constructing an entirely new education building (or two) for Ileana’s School. We are doing our due diligence to get things done well on the front end working with engineers, architects designers and builders. But, in the mean time we needed more temporary classroom space! One of our neighbors offered to sell their land, so we pulled the trigger and quickly converted it into a new temporary classroom space! Praise the Lord! Here is a before and after video…

God is so good and we hoped this little video encouraged you this week. My little helper Abdiel is a champion, his future and the futures of the over 300 kids we serve and protect every day is what motivates us. We know that Jesus loves the little children and wants them protected as He speaks about in Matthew 14…let’s keep fighting together for God’s great purposes in these little ones’ lives!

Thank you for your prayers and donations to help keep things moving forward. We look forward to sharing about what happened last week, Master Plans are coming together for the future and it is exciting!

Stay tuned for that story…and please keep lifting us up in prayer!

There is a pretty commonly held refrain, “Water is life”. That is 1000% true, especially this time of year in Nicaragua when it is a million degrees, hasn’t rained in months and pretty much everything is dry and covered in dirt. But even more than that, at Ruby Ranch water is fun!!!

Sooooo we have a bit of an emergency. The 160 foot well of life and fun was acting up and needing some attention. Upon deeper inspection, there was some serious work to be done. Replacing old pipes, installing check valves, pulling the pump, all this on top of the routine maintenance.

Total Repair Cost: $3,059