How did you travel to church last Sunday? For pastors in Nicaragua the trip to hold services or visit with parishioners can be a complicated one. Often pastors serve more than one congregation and may live in yet another community.
Some pastors rely on bicycles, some take the local bus or bicycle taxi, and then walk the remainder of the way. Some have motorcycles. Very few have a car.
This is Pastor Geronimo who serves a number of congregations, all of which are rural. The roads leading to these small villages are not paved and in some cases are not graveled either. If you look closely you can see a machete in a sleeve he has attached to the rear wheel. We asked why a machete? Are there bad men? He said no, there were bad dogs that he had to hold off or they would topple him over and take whatever foodstuffs he was carrying to his home or to his parishioners.
For the last couple of years Concordia Lutheran Mission Society has had Motorcycles for Pastors as one of our projects. Last year three pastors received a motorcycle. In this past month two more pastors received motorcycles!
Wow! Look at Pastor Geronimo now! 
He has the keys and the helmet (not shown) and is ready to get on the road!
What a blessing for him and for all of his parishioners. Because there is still a need for more motorcycles CLMS will have this project again in 2020.
CLMS sincerely thanks all those who have given to this project. Pastor Geronimo’s prayer for a motorcycle has been answered, and our donors were God’s instrument to have this come to pass.
God bless you all!
