This month my team, and team Sequoia are in Honduras! We’re living on a 100-acre farm about a 1/2 hour outside of Tegucigalpa. We’re staying with a man, Tony, from the USA, and his wife who is from Honduras. Tony has been living in Honduras for about 4 years. For the last couple of years he’s been building relationships with people, mostly the youth, from a nearby village called Los Pinos. This village is very looked down upon and has a bad reputation. They don’t have any running water or plumbing, and the kids there have nothing to do. A lot of them don’t go to school, and try to find jobs to help their families. Driving down the street at any time you can find teen standing on the corner there sniffing glue because they don’t have anything else to do and want to “get away” from their lives for a while. All they really need is some love, hope, and someone to believe in them. That’s exactly what Tony has tried to show them.
This past weekend we had a family of 6 and a few other kids from Los Pinos come and stay with us on the farm. I had so much fun with them just hanging out and loving on them. We played games, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows, and had a water fight! The kids made sure we all got soaking wet!
For the next 3 weeks, on Monday/Tuesday and Wednesday/Thursday, we’re having 6 teen guys from Los Pinos come and stay the night on the farm with us. We’re going to be hanging out with them, loving on them and doing different activities around the farm, like going on hikes, making picture frames, and painting. Yesterday we made tie-dye shirts that the guys really loved. We’ll also be painting signs with verses on them to hang on the trees around the farm this week.
Prayer requests-
-My teammate Courtney has been sick for the past few months with gastritis, kidney stones and bacterial infection. She decided to stay in LA for a couple weeks to see her doctor and get some better medicine. Her goal is to be back with us in a couple weeks.
-That even though most of us don’t know Spanish we’ll be able to love on the people from Los Pinos and share our faith through our actions.
-That the families and youth that stay with us out on the farm will be filled with God’s love and know that there is hope in the One who created them.
Psalm 139:13-18
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am
fearfully and wonderfully made;
fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your
thoughts,
God!
thoughts,
God!
How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand-
when I awake, I am still with you.”
