MakemSmile NSMN Spring 2009

HAPPY SPRING 2009! Hope your weather is improving there, and if your not happy with it come down and visit us in Nicaragua where it's 75-95 24 hours a day!

Hello to everyone...and sorry i have been so out of touch...living on the land 6.5-7 days a week now has me pretty busy...I am hoping soon to put together some reports and videos to send back of a lot of the exciting things going on here right now. We are all extremely busy making a lot of changes in the mision right now, but know these changes will benefit God's kingdom in time. I love and miss you all and will be back in the states for the first week-10 days of August.

The biggest things I hope to share more with you all on ASAP, as they are things I have found myself doing mostly with the mission include:
6 members of my family and 4 members of FBC Boone spending the first 8 days of February here helping get kids in school, supplying sunday school materials, playing soccer/volleyball, medical clinic, visiting homes, holding finance meetings, praying, and much much more..and of course visiting with me!
Sending 250 children/youth to school with full uniforms, shoes, backpacks, notebooks, and other school supplies thanks to the 22Fifty Project and School Fund contributions throughout February...our goal of $7,000.00 was matched and then some with around $8,200.00 donated..The $1,200.00 is saved with our adopt-a-family fund. Thanks to everyone of you and Praise God!
Having 25 families adopted through adopt-a-family now, where families are being supported throughtout the whole school year, and excited to have contact with their US families
Having 10 youth sponsered to take University and Trade School classes for the entire 2009 School Year
Handing out over 1500 shoeboxes from Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child in the past 3 weekends to 6 communties
Seeing progress made to the youth house and my future bedroom on the church property
About 4 US teams/groups on short term missions changing lives, giving time, and donating in many unique ways who have already visited us in 2009, with April, June, July, and August filling up very fast!!!

I want to Thank God and all of you for your help in all these areas and for those of you wondering our missions current needs, or my specific project needs:

Youth House / my future bedroom / short term missions dorm construction...This project will need $10,000.00 which I have received $1,000.00 towards.
Adopt-a-Family....we have 25 families adopted, but still need sponsors for another 50 familes in Candelaria and 25 families in La Isla/Guanacastal

Please let me know anyways you would like to help us here, or anything you would like more details on what God has been doing here thus far in 2009...If nothing else, I'd love an email back simply saying hey from any of you who like me, feel like we haven't had any contact this year.

Love and miss you all, hope our paths cross in August...May God Bless you, your family, your church, and everything else this Spring!

In Christ's Love,
James "Jim Bob / Diego" Norman
Make 'em Smile
New Song Mission Nicaragua
John 15:13

This past Thursday we celebrated 7 years of the church and start of NSMN..Linda put together the following video and short message! What a blessing it has been to be a part of this for the past 13 months. Really hope to see more of you down here and involved when your time allows,
Hoping to make some videos of all the things I listed above as my time allows!!!

http://vimeo.com/3798219 to watch the Photostory

We invite you to celebrate with us all that God has done in 7th years in the community He has blessed us with. If you have been following us we are blessed by your love!!! Thank you all for joining with God and us to see His work increase here.

We love you, Tommy and Linda

http://vimeo.com/3568386 THE CLINIC BUILDING IS COMPLETE and we have had 2 clinics so far in 2009 in the beautiful building God has supplied!!!