Children's Church

We never know how many kids to expect if any at all. Today we had five kiddos come and participate in Children's Church. It was good fun trying to remember words to VBS songs, while at the same time doing hand motions and trying to sing those VBS songs in Spanish! This week we started a 'series' with the kiddos on creation and they all seemed to catch on pretty quickly!

Jonathan coloring his coloring sheet!

The girls (Courtney and Jenn) cut out this really cool light bulbs to represent light, and then the kids colored their papers black to represent dark

All together now!

Its fun to watch them get so much enjoyment out of coloring

Courtney leading the song 'The Sea of Galilee' because i am not that fast at translating the words and doing the hand motions all at the same time! :)

Church with the homeless... i love them!

Homeless Church is a little, different to say the least. People sometimes shout out in the middle of a prayer, stand up and walk out to go huff some glue, people are wrestles and just come for the food afterwards but today, it seemed different yet at the same time, all the same (if that makes any sense at all). Darwin, Ambers' son, lead the service today but he was kind of hyper. Which actually turned out to be really cool. He had the people standing and acting like kids, singing and dancing to those famous VBS songs that we all loved and cherished!!! At first I thought it was a little crazy, but after I got to thinking about it, the people there probably never had a chance to attend a VBS, where they can act silly and it still be okay before God. It also allowed them a time to get out all their energy before sitting down and listening to a good lesson on love and kindness and the hope that Jesus has to offer them.

Belki's singing and dancing in her own little world!!!

Darwin starting with the first song, Belkis was SO excited!

There were over 25 people today!!! It as a great time worshiping God (like kids!)

Donation of computer monitors!!!

A couple of weeks ago, we helped TORCH/I.R.C unload a container. When we were finished Mark Connell and I were talking about some of the things that came in on the container and where the supplies would be going. Carlos, our oldest son, overheard Mark say the quicker we can get the stuff out the better. Well, on our drive home that night Carlos asked what Mark was going to do with the monitors. So after asking some questions, Carlos told me that he wanted to donate some to his old school, where he graduated from in November. After making some phone calls and talking to the right people, we brought home about twenty nine computer monitors for Carlos to clean up, fix/repair. It took three truck loads but we got them all home. Over the course of the weekend Carlos plugged every single one and made sure they worked. Then he took the time to clean them inside and out.

God is working in this boy, he doesn't see it but we do! Carlos is constantly trying to find ways to help people, constantly trying to find ways to do the right thing. He has a servant heart, he just trys to be cool, like any normal 20 year old! Love my boy, and Love that God has allowed him to be in my life!

Our living room with monitors, WOW!!! Carlos is in the back-round trying out one to make sure it works

This picture was taken only after trip #2 out of 3

Carlos' teacher, with all the monitors in their storage room

Our truck full to the top!!! (inside was full too!)

They all made it to the school safe and sound!

A Christmas Party in February?!!?

Around Christmas time, the W.O.P. team from Ohio, decided that they wanted to throw a Christmas party for the Didasko children's home. After many jumps, leaps and cancellations, God allowed us the have the party last weekend. It was a great day for everyone, fun times on the games and rides and most of all pizza and LOTS of presents from wonderful people in the states! God is always faithful!

We broke the kiddos up into different groups. Carlos had these four little guys... (Carlos is growing up to be a good man :) )

Bryan enjoying some pizza, I feel like he ate about 10 slices himself!

Jen and the girls!

Norma and her gifts!!!

She LOVED her presents!!!

A great week!

Over the last week or so, we have had the opportunity to host one of our biggest supports. This great lady prays for our ministry daily, offers advice and guidance and most importantly believes that God’s work is being done through our ministry. It was a great week of taking her around to see the different things God allows us to do here in Honduras. Michelle got to meet our boys, got to work in some of the communities that we serve in, got to visit the dump and pass out food and water, she was able to serve in the homeless ministry and most importantly show the love of Christ in everything that she did.

Michelle with Carlos as he was working on a computer

Saul and Michelle

Michelle and some of the kiddos from Casa de Esperanza!

Me, Jen and Michelle

Giving out hugs and water at the dump!

Valentines Day at the Homeless Ministry

Yesterday at the homeless ministry Amber brought cards and art supplies for the people to make valentines day cards, the people went CRAZY!!! They loved it, most of them went right to making their cards instead of eating.

Making Cards :)

Sunday Afternoon Church...

On Sunday afternoons we have been attending Breaking the Chains Church of Christ with the homeless people. Depending on the week, there can be three people to twenty people. This past week we had over twenty people come to worship Christ! It was great seeing the drug addicts and others worshiping God. After services we provide a time of fellowship and invite the people to stay and eat something. This time is my favorite part because we get to invest time with them, something they LOVE.

Making Dinner!

Cutting the Tomatoes!!!

Our Church Group

WOP Honduras!!!

This past Friday and Saturday our time was spent blessing the Missionary Women of Honduras, with Women of Purpose, Sisterhood Revive! It was a great weekend of sharing and blessing the women!!! From praise and worship to insightful videos, God’s glory and honor was shown to the women!

Sarahi's family

Visiting Sarahi and the family…
On Friday we went out to sector 8 and visited Sam’s family. Everyone looks like they have worms again. They all seemed happy and relatively clean, considering our past experiences with them. Mariosol, can see pretty good. She colored several pictures while we were there and most of the pages she had colored within the lines. Everyone except for Sarahi will be going to school come this February. They are all excited!!! Please continue to pray for this family, as we try to seek God’s guidance as to better the future of the children.

Clean Water

Clean water…
In December, Bread for a Hungry World came and installed a water filtration system, just outside the Tegucigalpa Dump. Although the process to purify 2,500 liters of water takes about four hours, it is worth the end result. Today, after being away for a couple of weeks I talked with a guy who lives in the community surrounding the dump. He said that the water that we purify at first tasted a little funny but now after drinking it for a couple of weeks he feels better and asked that we continue to serve their community. God is always, always faithful  .
Funny story, as we sat today and cleaned some water we got to become friends with two very impactful people. One being the guard at the school. We talked for about 30 minutes about faith and God’s word. Jessica told how she has walked away from her faith in the past and about her return, it was a God moment. Then we hung out most of the day with Oscar David, a 12 year old kiddo from a surrounding community called the Linda Miller. He seems to be a good kid, with a good heart. We talked about what he wanted to do when he grew up, how many brothers and sisters he has. He asked lots of questions of us. Overall it was a good God sharing type of day! Next week you told Oscar David that we would bring out a bible for him and his family. 