Everyone is Here

This is Nicole posting again for my dad. Sorry to have kept all of you anxious moms waiting so long to know that your babies mede it safely. The group from St. Louis arrived on Thursday, and only one bag was missing. It was so good to see everyone. We enjoyed a lunch Church's Chicken. Fried Chicken seems to be a staple of the eating out diet here. wherever there is a Church's, there is also a Popeye's, a KFC, and a Honduran place called Campero's all on the same road. On thursday night my dad talked about what faith is and how we will see faith in people of HOnduras that we won't even imagine. We will see people with no food and no money to buy food, but they have such a strong faith that God will provide for them. It was a great day.

On Friday, the group went to Santa Ana, a town about 45 minutes outside of Tegucigalpa. Last year a piece of property was bought here. There is now a clinic, a church, and a children's home with five precious little boy (the children's home just opened) A few of the ladies and Ben from Ft. Laderdale worked in a dental clinic. Most of the people got their bad teeth removed. It was neat to see the kids smiling even after teeth had been yanked out of their head. The rest of the group from St. Louis went with Mark Connell, a youth minister from Birmingham that spends his summers down here working for the Lord, to build a house. This was a house site that the preacher at the local church picked out. If I understand correctly, the family that had lived there had lost their house to a fire. They had a roof over their head last night which is awesome because it rained pretty hard for part of the night.

While the group was working hard and serving the Lord, my dad and I went to the airport to pick up everyone that came in from everywhere else. As soon as they were off the plane and through security, they loaded the buses and went to Santa Ana to meet the rest of the group. Many of this group came last summer and saw what the land here looked like. All were amazed to see how their hard work had paid off and that those sidewalks they built really did go somewhere. They spent their time entertaining the kids that just wanted to hang around the clinic as well as playing outside with the boys at Casa de Esperanza, the children's home.

Back at the Mission House, everyone found their way to their room before dinner. The lovely staff at the Mission House served us with delicious Honduran cuisine. At devo we talked about taking care of the poor and needy both here and at home. We also shared where we found Jesus. Many people see Jesus in the eyes of the kids. It is so easy to see Jesus in these children. They are so willing to love complete strangers, and they have no reason at all to trust and love us but they do. That is a lesson that we can all learn from them: Love whether you know the person or not. Well it was another great day in Honduras.

Today we will be building 2 houses, having another day of a dental clinic, and Wesley Thompson and his crew will be going into the community to tell the pepole about Jesus. I will write more on that when the day ends.