Global Missions: Nicaragua

DCPC is active in several types of missions to Nicaragua.

The church supports regular reverse mission trips by Davidson College students and college student church members to the areas around the capital, Managua.

While a traditional mission team often acts before ever meeting the people or hearing their concerns, the reverse mission concept is based on the assumption that marginalized peoples often know better what their needs are than those of us here in suburban North Carolina. A reverse mission experience is based on the premise that the people the team visit have much to teach the mission team and have a witness to offer the mission team. The hope is that team members’ minds and lives will be transformed because of their experiences and relationships while on the mission trip and that their real mission will begin when they return home, changed people. 

DCPC has also formed a community partnership with ASDECK, the Asociacion de Desarollo Comunitario de Kilambe (Association for Community Development of Kilambe, in English). The seven communities in ASDECK are located in the coffee-growing region near Mount Kilambe, a 200-kilometer, eight-hour drive from Managua near the Honduran border.