Our first day began early beginning at Hillside at 6:00
a.m. Dr. Doug sent us off by praying
over the team and serving communion. Our
team consists of primarily Hillside and Heritage Presbyterian mission
trippers. We were able to take the awesome
church vans from Heritage which hold almost 35 people in each one. A special thanks to Cecilia Norman and Jimmy
Smith for being our very capable CDL.
Once we got checked in all went very well. I had the privilege and honor of sharing my
airplane ride with Erin and Beth. Both
were so cute and we enjoyed reading through the Encyclopedia of Immaturity,
Volume 2. I learned so much and cannot
wait to get home and try out some of my new gifts. What a blessing they both are to our trip.
God blessed us with an uneventful trip, although, for those
of you that don’t know. Tegucigalpa has
a very short landing strip that is in a valley between the mountains. So the plane basically takes a sharp turn,
flies about 100 feet above the homes by the airport, hits the runway and then
SLAMS on the breaks to stop before the airstrip ends. It was fun, and there was much applause when
we landed.
We had two buses taking us to Orphanage Emmanuel as we were
joined by Heritage Baptist church from Columbus. They are also serving here this week which
bring our total missionary count up to about 85. The bus ride is always beautiful once you get
out of the city. Honduras is very
mountainous and beautiful and littered with small communities along the
drive. Homes are more what we might
refer to as a shelter, as most don’t have windows or doors, many with dirt
floors. The dogs you see on the side of
the road are very thin. If you have a
finicky eater for a dog, tell him there are starving dogs in Honduras and to be
thankful for the food he/she gets.
Once you enter into the gates of the Orphanage, it is like
coming into a different world. You go
from extreme poverty, to green grass, nicely maintained grounds, well built
homes with electricity, plumbing, and very clean. We had a little down time as the children
were already in for the night. Dinner,
worship songs by Chandler E. and a devotion by Greg E. We are all in for the night to rest and
prepare for what God has in store for us for the week.
Please pray that our eyes are opened to where God is working
here at the orphanage, so that we can walk alongside of him.
“…but whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives
freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing
they will be blessed in what they do.”
James 1:25.
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