Yes, it is true I did, but that was on the way home from ministry. I don’t have any pictures of our ministry that day because we were encouraged not to bring cameras due to safety. We took an hour bus ride from Zion’s Gate Ministry to the dumps.
Picture this, we drive up a hill and got off the bus. You can smell the rotting food and the rest of the waste from community as well as companies in the area. There were mounds and mounds of garbage.
All photos by Jessica Fischbach
We walked around and talked to people there, we shared stories with them and prayed with them. Afterwards, we passed food and had the ability to talk with some more of the people there.
Later on, a long-term missionary, named Elijah, here at Zion’s Gate decided he wanted to hug a cow and encouraged me to go with him. When we were in reaching distance of a cow, a man in his late twenties introduced himself to Elijah. I then introduced myself to him and he proceeded to tell us his story.
He told us about his childhood and how he left to Nicaragua during the war. Afterwards he moved back to Honduras and became a wielder. He started working for a telephone company but was laid off when the national minimum went up. Then he started working there… In the dumps.
He continued to go into depth in his story and I was so moved by it. He told me that at this current moment it is the only place he can be. He takes care of his mother and his younger brother. He went on that he would rather be in the dumps than to be out in the streets stealing or selling drugs. He thanked God for not being put down that path.
I could go more in detail about all the stories and all the people we meet there, but this man, Freddy, was special. Despite his circumstances he was still thankful that he has the ability to provide for his family, even if it is little, and thanks God for what he has.
I share this story with all of you so you too can be touched, and so you too can remember the many blessings that God has given you, even when you don’t recognize them.
