August 17, 2008

We had a team from Texas here that is going to be opening a new orphanage about an hour from Faith Home. Sunday we went to a local church with them. They have a relationship with this church (not sure how) and so the church agreed to meet on Sunday morning for them. Normally they meet at night. Which means the building is designed for night meetings - not day time meetings. Which means the building is very hot during the day. So, it was about 100 degrees (not exaggerating) inside the metal roof building during the surface. By the time the service was over your clothes were very wet from all the sweat. During the service some of the church members went to the local grocery and bought a bunch of cold drinks which they passed out to all the gringos in attendance. The heat didn't seem to bother the church members. They were dancing, singing, and sweating without regard to the heat.

August 21, 2008

We have had some of the boys from El Barro (the community where Faith Home is located) climbing over the fence at night to talk with some of our girls. So David (one of our teammates) and Javier (one of the house parents) went to the police station to talk with the police about the situation. It was the same old stuff: they don't have enough police, they don't have enough vehicles, and the always available excuse "we don't have any money for gasoline for our trucks".

Funny how they seem to have enough money for gas to come to Faith Home several times a month to ask us to give them money. Ok, that's a different problem. Back to the story. After hearing all these excuses as to why they can't patrol more in our area or come when we call Javier has had enough. He is the house dad (Tio - Uncle in Spanish) in a house full of young girls. He tells the police "I have a house of young girls to protect and if they come around my house I'm going to go after them with a machete." (well, of course, this was all said in Spanish). The police respond by basically saying "We have no problem with that." Interesting.

August 18, 2008

Here is one of the little critters that lives around our house. We tried to get a face shot but he was too shy.

August 12, 2008

We have a family that is now living beside the Bible Institute and they have three boys. From the left they are: Izreque (not sure on the correct pronunciation or spelling - sorry), David, and Maynor.

August 11, 2008

Cindy is helping out in the school while Julia is in the States. So, today she had the kindergarten class. She thought she would step up the educational program and start them on our new kinder-med school advanced learning program. From the left they are: Axel, Gesel, Jonathan.
Truth is, Cindy is a little disgusted there is no anatomy and physiology being taught in kindergarten.

August 10, 2008

Wanted to give you some idea of what they can get on a pickup here. They don't need trailers. Anything and everything will fit on in the bed of a pickup.

August 9, 2008

Cindy had a "movie afternoon" with some of the kids here. We started with 18 of them in the house but by the time it was over we had 22. The kids leave their shoes outside our house when they come inside. It was a lot of fun with the kids. Of course we have no food after they left.

August 6, 2008

Another communication adventure. Last Wednesday Javier returned from the Wednesday night service at our newest church and said there were "siete personas." (seven people) Brad thought he meant there were seven people at the church service. He was a little surpised because it's been running about 20 -30 people. But, he thought maybe we are just getting down to the people who are really serious now that the newness has worn off.

Tonight Miguel returned from the Wednesday night meeting of the our newest church and showed Brad a list of seven names. He then tells Brad that these are people that became new Christians last week. Ok, this is a bit different from what Brad thought Javier was saying last week. They didn't have seven people at the service last week. SEVEN people became new believers last week. WOW!

It is still so humbling to be part of something when God really works. We don't want to ever lose that feeling of humility!

August 5, 2008 Prison

Brad returned to the prison today. While his group was signing in one of guards said the Director (warden) wanted to talk with them right now. Ok, hope we haven't done something. The Director begins talking very fast and Brad is suppose to serve as the translator for the rest of the group that doesn't speak Spanish. Brad is understanding nothing and is not sure what to do. God provides the answer. There is a guy in the office sweeping the floor who comes to the rescue. He speaks very good English and translates for us. The Director asked if we could provide the money to buy a metal detector - the wand type - because the prison needed one and they had no money. He then showed us 5 or 6 very big knives/machetes that had been confiscated from the inmates. These things were BIG.

A little different from the States. Never had the prison ask if we could provide funds for security purposes. Roger, the gentlemen who Brad goes to the prison with is going to try to help.

August 5, 2008 School

Julia, the director of the school left for the States today for three months. Now Cindy is going to help out some at the school. She's not exactly sure everything she will be doing but she's going to make herself available and do what she can to help. We will let you know how it goes.

August 4, 2008

We had a fire in the girl's Transition house last night. The transition house is where the girls on campus stay when they turn 14. They learn how to cook for themselves, do their own laundry, and are learning how to live on their own so when they turn 18 they will be prepared.

Sunday night we lost power and it stayed off for about 18 hours. This is getting to be regular event on the weekends. One of the girls needed some light in the bathroom so she took a candle into the bathroom and put in the sink while she washed some clothes. Problem was she left the candle burning when she left the bathroom. Of course, teenagers in the states would never do anything like that we're sure. During the night the candle feel off the sink and into the basket of clothes below the sink. The clothes caught on fire. The fire was so hot it melted the plastic pipe running to the sink. The hole in the pipe allowed water to spray out which put out the fire. The next morning they found all this out because they heard the water leaking. Interesting.

August 2, 2008

With money being a little tight and us needing some work done here on the campus we realized they don't have child labor laws in Honduras. So, we thought we would take advantage of the situation. (really, there are child labor laws here). This is Jeremy. He is the son of the one of the house parents. That's his father Jorge (goes by George). That's their pet sheep in the pic. Believe his name is Marcos Ronaldino.

August 1, 2008 Danli

Pics from the food distribution at the church in Las Perlas.

august 1, 2008 Tegucigalpa

Pics from the food distribution at the two churches in the capital - Tegucigalpa.

August 1, 2008 Choluteca

We have only passed out the food in communities close to Faith Home. However, the team from Ft. Branch, IN left money to buy food for the churches in other parts of the country. So, on Saul's latest trip to visit the churches he bought food and they passed it out. Pics from the church in Choluteca.

August 1, 2008

One of the things we do is go into poor communities and pass out beans, rice, flour, and oil to the families. Here are some pics from a recent outing.