Hi Friends! We started out our day with the instructions to pack a full backpack. We were told we would be gone all day and it was true! Early in the morning we split into two teams.
Team one was returning to community that we distributed food in yesterday. The house being fixed was on a very steep hillside. They reinforced the wall and dug a trench to keep the water and mud from running in. Steps were cut out of the hillside to make it easier for the family to get up to their home. Finally, a bunk bed built by Kestner and Garrett was brought in to make some space on the floor. We are returning tomorrow to take them a mattress. Two less babies sleeping on the floor. :-)
Team two visited the hospital. This particular hospital is, let's say, not for the rich. They have separate units, however many children share a room. We split into 5 teams with at least one spanish speaking member and were set loose to visit. Our group was stopped immediately by a woman telling us she was a Christian. She wanted us to pray with her about her grandchild was in need of a surgery.
I know the cancer ward, the maternity ward, the burn unit, and the ER were all visited. We were given the opportunity to smile to, hold the hand of, rub the cheek of, pray with, sit with, and hug, many, many, sick children and healthy parents with broken hearts. Most times while we held their hands and prayed with them in English, they were simultaneously praying in Spanish.
Next we headed up to a school in Valle de Angeles to do a clothes distribution and to make a soccer field for the school children. The road up there was VERY rough and narrow and our busses wouldn't make it. Some rode in a truck and some of us walked up. When the first of our team arrived at the top of the hill, the children were just getting out of school. They were chanting and cheering because they were so excited. We were the first team to come here for something other than feeding them. The clothes were set up in a room in huge piles. They were to form a line and 5 at a time given 12 minutes for 20 limps ($1), and were allowed 20 items. We would help them hold their items while they frantically searched for items. We helped many children get to choose for the first time items that they would LIKE to wear. So special. Extra special was helping little boys shopping for their little brothers.
While half of us were doing the "yard sale", the other half were working on a piece of land that the kids like to try to play soccer on. It had a nice size hill that needed leveled out before we could add the goal posts that we brought along. The tools available were post hole diggers, spud bars, and several hammers, as our shovels were still being used on the house site. The field is done and goal posts are up and the kids that helped had visible pride in the project that they worked so hard on.
We had 1 hour to speed race through the shopping village in the Valle de Angeles. We are, as it turns out, seriously good speed shoppers. We had a blast and we're bringing you home some goodies, well, some of you. :-)
We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Las Tejas.
We left here and fed at the homeless shelter in downtown Tegucigalpa. A young precious girl named Amber has made a life here providing for the hurting, hungry, and homeless of this town. They are fed 3 hot meals a week here. The smell of....I don't even know what, was coming off of these poor people. Many have turned to smelling fumes of some sort to take away their hunger pains. God is working wonders through Amber who not only feeds them but provides shelter when they are sober and love always. Please keep her ministry in your prayers as it is one that reaches so very many people here.
We're tuckered out but VERY blessed by what God has done though us and with us today. Our last full day is tomorrow. We'll be building 3 houses in the dump community if all goes well with getting wood. Please remember us in your prayers. Goodnight!!!
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