Day Once

Crown of thorns


Inside of one of the homes we replace



The Alameda House

Kevin admiring the view

Last day of work means giving away our shoes to people who really need them

See, he really does smile... :)

Beautiful little girl

Seasoned old man

Good Evening Church Family,

Today we took a group of us to the Hospital. Most of the group minus 2 were Alameda folks. I will have to say it was a good day. Although it was emotionally hard - church you should be proud that we have some strong folks. Through Christ we got to pray with a lot of people, play with kids. We passed out balloons, made funny faces, painted nails, colored, blew bubbles, gave everything we had in our back packs to make someone else's day brighter.

We started out in the chemo ward. It was a tough place to start. The kids ranged from 2 years to 17 years old. There I got a chance to visit with a mother who was a believer. We talked about the strength that Christ gives us to make it through the circumstances of life. She had a daughter that was 16 going thru chemo and her other daughter that was 25 was there with her. We had a good time laughing about how hard it was to find a good man with a good heart and a good job. While visiting the chemo ward, a couple of our members had a hard time when praying with a certain patient and began to cry. As the translator, I assured the young girl that it was the latest "gringo" thing to do. That you cry with joy when you meet someone that you really like. She thought this was really funny.

We visited a lot of wards. From the prenatal ward to the post ops wards. One of the wards that we visited had babies that were only a few days old and the mothers did not name the babies because they didn't think they would live very long. The awesome part was these mothers were so full of hope that soon their babies would have names.

One ward had a patient, Brian 15 years old, that was brought in two days ago that suffered a shotgun wound that had pierced his lung. He was having labored breathing and they did not think he would make it through, so please pray for him tonight. His mother is my age.

My dear brothers and sisters I tell you these things not to discourage you, but rather to encourage you. Because our God is greater than all of this, and it really encouraged my spirit. Looking past the unclean rooms and all of the circumstances affecting the Honduran people, you realize that they have a deep love for each other. I hope that we can bring that love back home with us. I can't wait to see you all. I'll leave you with the scripture that we read over the families and patients...

"I pray that that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope throught the power of the Holy Spirit." Romans 15:13

Peace out yo,

-Dawnita

Hey Everyone,

We had a good day - it was challenging for some, especially for the crew that went to the hospital, but for the most part it was fun. Besides the hospital, we had people go to an orphanage and just play with the kids that didn't have visitors there. They had potato sack races, played soccer (or futbol), wrote with sidewalk chalk, and other fun activities. We don't usually go someplace without doing some sort of service, so it was a little bit of a treat for our people to go there and only play. We had another group go to a village and level land for a future house - the crews that have been doing this have been digging directly into a mountain side. They have to clear enough dirt to make a 20 by 18ft square, which is requiring a lot of shoveling. Lastly, we had a few people build today - that makes 16 houses in 9 days. That's incredible. Well that's about all, I'll leave you with a few more pictures.

In Him,

-Robbie