Many people ask me what life is like living in Honduras. Here are a few pictures of some of the scenes we see everyday, as well as pictures of the people, the ministries, and why we have made Honduras our home. I realize that, to many of you, it may not seem like much of a life, but we LOVE it here! We love our town, our life, and we ESPECIALLY LOVE THE PRECIOUS PEOPLE OF HONDURAS! We are SO GLAD that God saw fit to call US to work among these people and in this place!!! We are BLESSED!!!
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Every Sunday, we leave our home in La Esperanza and go to the mountains to hold services at our mission churches located in various Lenca communities. We leave at 7 a.m. and travel 1-1/2 to 2 hours one way, stopping for services in 2 to 3 places (depending on the Sunday), arriving home anywhere between 1:20 and 2:30. This gives us just enough time to eat and rest a little before the services in our main church, New Hope Baptist, in La Esperanza. It makes for a long, tiring day, for the roads are very bumpy and dusty in the dry season... and muddy, slick and dangerous in the rainy. We cross this particular bridge EVERY Sunday! Visiting groups usually remember this bridge without a problem! (I don't know why!?!)
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When an Evangelistic Mission Team from Monroe, WA, visited, many of the passengers opted to get out of the bus and WALK across the bridge and just take videos of the bus crossing it! (Don't know WHY!?!)
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In the summer of 2011 two teams made mission trips to Honduras to visit the work there and minister to the people. Friend and fellow missionary Dwayne Chase was the trip coordinator and contact for Pastor Jim Callen and the building team from Eastern Avenue Baptist Church from St. Cloud, Florida. In four days, they put up the walls and roof of the In Christ Baptist Church in the Lenca community of Naranjitos where, afterward, over 100 people from that remote community attended a celebration service! The following week, our vehicles were kept busy shuttling around the Pleasantview Baptist Church from Arlington, Texas, where long time friend, Jimmy McNeil, is pastor. In addition to visiting several works of fellow missionaries they built a fence for one of the families in our church and painted the inside of the newly constructed fellowship hall in our main church in La Esperanza, New Hope Baptist. The trip coordinator was our dear friends and 30 year veteran missionaries to Honduras, Jim and Dot Foster. During their visit here, the people of Honduras surprised them with a special service in which they were honored!
Much thanks and appreciation to both of these churches for being such a blessing to our people and to us!
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