Hugs from Amalia

Roof line from rear of House

Sunset

JB and Team

Rooster on Front Steps

Ron and Tommy on the wall

Landscape

Carrying firewood home

Mas mezcla Tomas

Dream Team

Part of the original 2005 Dream Team

Babies

Little Helpers

Farm animals

Honduras Travel Form:  

    Q:  Have you been around livestock, animals, or visited a farm while in Honduras?

    A:  No

Bloques

Cinder blocks (bloques), stored across the street, moved one by one to the new house.

Front Steps to the House

Rock steps leading to the original house.  The addition we added is to the right of this.  

Rockslide

Before...

After...

Resting after lunch

Worship today

Today is our final full day in Honduras.  We led a worship service in Tapatoca, enjoyed a great meal in Choluteca (including a visit with our friend for the past 15 years, Daisi), visited friends in El Carrizo, then had a closing devotion time this evening.  We will leave Mount Horeb at 6:30 AM tomorrow morning and hope to not have any travel delays.  We look forward to returning to loved ones tomorrow night.  Joel is staying in Honduras to continue working with another team for another couple of weeks. 

Each of our 12 team members has been invaluable this week, from our two new members Beau and Alexis, our returning founding member Jeremy, our members returning after a brief hiatus, Tommy and Ron, and our other veteran team members, Keith, Tom, Dennis, Steve, Joel, John, and Suzanne.   Thank you for your prayers as we have been on this journey.  We have shared the Gospel, worked to provide a home for a family here, visited old friends, made new friends, and grown closer to each other.  Along the way, we have each been blessed beyond measure with this time and in this place.  Gloria a Dios por todas sus bendiciones.

Sewing Machine delivered to Aprende con Migo

Mission accomplished.  Duct tape handle and all, this sewing machine was carry-on baggage from RDU to Atlanta to Tegucigalpa, in a truck ride to Choluteca, a week later van ride to El Carrizo, to the sewing lab table in Aprende con Migo.  Thank you to the Meredith College students who raised the money to donate this additional sewing machine, Diane Ellis for teaching classes to people in the community, and to Lizzy and the entire Sharefish team for this and the many other educational and vocational training classes provided here.  

New Testament Bibles in Spanish for every child

Courtesy of our returning veteran Jeremy Petty and family.  Gracias!

Sunday Worship service

Selfie at the top of the Mout Horeb rock

Jeremy, JB, Tommy, Tom, Dennis, Alexis, and Keith.

Feliz Cumpleanos Kristen!

Almost every year, since 2005, we have celebrated Kristen's birthday on Feb 3rd, in Honduras.  Sometimes with a pinata, sometimes with birthday cake from the bakery next door in Choluteca, sometimes with a piece of cake from a store called "A Piece of Cake" in the ATL airport, sometimes with a mariachi band playing in the middle if the street, and always with great love, great fun, and great admiration for all that she has meant to this ministry.  Kristen is home with her little man Jackson this year but we miss her and wish her a happy birthday. 

One of the many traditions that Kristen started was to inscribe this blessing:  "Dios bendiga este hogar", God bless this home.  Here is a photo of Kristen, Rachael (whom we are also anxiously awaiting to return to Honduras), and Maida (our Honduran interpreter) from 2014. 

So in Kristen's honor, we built this step, used the same inscription, and placed the children's feet and hand prints for the family whose yard we are using while building the house for Amalia. 

Cross by the house

Dedication of the home and washing the feet of the family members

Dedication of the home, presentation of the Bible signed by our team, and washing the feet of the family as taught to us by Jesus in John 13.

Alexis and Grandpa