Mount of Olives Christian School - May Update

     Mount of Olives Christian School, located in Diriamba, Nicaragua, about a forty-five-minute drive from Managua, is experiencing a year of record enrollment: preschool with 67, elementary with 213, and high school with 141 for a total of 421 students. The school continues to emphasize hand washing, use of hand sanitizer, and use of masks by students and staff. Compliance ranges from 100% among high schoolers to about 75% among elementary students. The preschoolers are less compliant with most removing their masks even though their parents send masks with them to school.

     The government is providing food for a healthy mid-morning snack for the preschoolers and elementary students in the form of rice, beans, corn and cooking oil. Parents of the students prepare the food on a rotating basis. This is a blessing with so much unemployment among parents of the students.

     Cathey Johnson continues to give Bible classes twice weekly via Zoom as well as devotions to staff. She also participates in monthly chapel services via Zoom. She and Director Doris Lopez communicate daily. Cathey says that Doris is doing an excellent job of onsite administration and direction of the school’s day-to-day activities.

     Below is also a photo of the recent chapel service for high school students where Omar Barquero, BMDMI staff member, is preaching. A second chapel service is conducted for the elementary students. Classes begin each day with a devotion, Bible reading, and prayer.

     The school recently completed the paving of the street that runs between the high school/multipurpose building, soccer field and the primary school/administration/library. (See photos.) Each student purchased at least one of the large paving stones used in the project. Five-hundred stones in total were required. The school covered the cost of the other materials and the labor.

     Another project recently completed (See photos.) is a portable stage that will be used for the many events outside the multipurpose building. This project was paid for both by money raised by students and the donation of a North American friend-of-the-school.

     Mount of Olives Christian School is dependent upon the regular donations of those who believe in the value of a Christ-centered, Bible-believing education in a spiritually dark and impoverished area.

Darrel and Cathey Johnson

Missionaries

BMDMI Nicaragua

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