Well here I am month two! I am currently staying with my entire squad (all forty three of us) in beautiful Honduras! Working with just my six sisters this past month to a giant squad of forty three people is very hectic, but extremely exciting and stretching. We are working with a man named Tony with the ministry he founded, Zion's Gate. A fellow Christian, Tony is a man from the United States that was living a normal, ordinary life with a great job. He shared some of his testimony with us explaining how before Honduras, he had some of the nicest things with the nicest cars, the owner of his own business, living the american dream fully to its potential. He explained to us how he always had this empty feeling inside of him, always in content in his spirit, no matter what girlfriend he had or his beautiful new cars. Long story short his church decided to take a short mission trip to Honduras, so he agreed , okay I'm going to do this.
Tonys life radically changed from this experience. Honduras is filled with street kids that have no home, no place to go, filled with drugs, violence,gangs and much poverty. And when I say kids Im saying anywhere from five years old up to their twenties. Tony quit his job, gave up everything, and moved here to Honduras where he currently lives with his wife and six boys he has taken off the streets through these past years from a dangerous village called Los Pinos. Herman, Fernando, Carlos, Luis, Ronny, Ariel with many other boys that roam the property and is a place for safety and a chance at a healthy life. These boys all have an amazing testimony you could not imagine and they have come so far! Many of them are enrolled in a private christen school and radically changing from street kids addicted to paint thinner not knowing anything different to beautiful loving boys growing in the lord and radically transforming. Through this ministry we go to different villages and play music , soccer, and many games with the youth. Introducing a lot of love and teaching them about the lord. We do a lot of construction on peoples homes that are in desperate need of repairs, as well as visiting orphanages and hospitals with a lot of prayer. We are teaching Music and English at schools, as well as visiting INFA where police take street kids that are causing trouble or overpowering the area and enprisen them for a couple months and then release them to the exact same life. This was an opportunity opened to Tony for the first time ever known here for them to allow us to come in and get to know these kids. I feel so stretched here and growing crazy trust in the lord. At times it can get overwhelming seeing all the poverty and little kids walking the streets high and in search for food.
Their are days I just break down and cry because I want to do something MORE! But god has shown me to trust, that prayer is more powerful than anything I could offer. Andrea, go where I have called you, love them and show them who I am and who I have called them to be. This life is so short, so temporary do not get discouraged I am here. Feed them and cloth them when you can, and remember that you can do nothing on your own strength, nothing. God is so good and he has blessed us so much, so so so much. So tonight please tuck your kids into bed and tell them how much you love them, eat dinner as a family, pray as a family, give thanks to the lord because we are so blessed! No matter what your going through, or what has happend in your life, you are so very blessed by god.
Romans 9:33> Behold, I lay in zion a stumbling stone,and rock of offense,
And whoever believes on him will not be put to shame.
