Honduras
Honduras was our second month in Central America. Honduras as a whole is one ranked the most dangerous countries in the world that is not in a war. The country is full of gang related crime, that includes murder, extrusion, drugs, and human trafficking. Extortion is one of their biggest crimes there.
Our team, the men of the squad (yes we had yet another Manistry month again) went to the third largest cities in Honduras called La Ceiba. La Ceiba is found on the East Coast of the country sort of in the middle. La Ceiba is the second most dangerous cities in Honduras and our team got to spend our time, in a neighborhood ran by MS-13 gang (one of the most dangerous gangs in the world), at a home for boys that had come off the streets. This was probably the scariest place I have ever been on the race. While we were in La Ceiba there was two gang related murders.
Now I wanted to tell you a little bit about Honduras to show you how much God works around the world. When others see darkness, God sees His light. Like I said before we worked at a home for boys that had come off the street. It was called Nino’s De La Luz (Children of The Light). Here is their website Nino’s De La Luz. Most of the boys there had been there for quite some time before we got there. While the boys are there they are fed three meals, clothed, loved, and sent to some of the best school in the area. The project tries to house not more than 25 boys at a time so that it still feels like family. Yes, there are always more children, however if they took more boys they would be removing their vison that God gave them. The boys usually are there from 8 to adult age. Which is about 20 something. They can even go to college if they choose to, just as long as they follow what is asked of them. The project also has a school that is on their grounds. It has classes from 1-6, and it is a coed Christian based school.
Though this might sound weird, one of the coolest things about the placement of the project it is in the heart of a gang ran neighborhood, however the gang protects the place. The project provides a good, sustainable, place for children to be looked after and helps the community out. Usually in cases like this if you are a missionary or organization and the gangs know it, they will protect you and leave you alone. So yes it is a scary place, but we were in a super, none idea, safe place.
While we were there we got to hang out with 14 boys, ranging from 6—17. Our translator was 25 and had been a boy in the home, and has since went to school, graduated, and took the bar exam to be lawyer, where he practices criminal law in some of the same neighborhoods that he grew up in.
Some of the ministry that we did there was: we helped make a running track for the boys, rebuilt some playground equipment, led devotionals for the school as well as the boys, played with marbles, played soccer, and taught English. Well I didn’t teach English this month, but some of us did. And just loved on the boys as much as we could while being there.
Even though we found ourselves scared, at least I was, I seen how big our God is, and how much He loves us. He has been working there for years and we got to partner with him in the middle of chaos and destruction. If God has called you to go, He will protect you, He will provide, and He will show up to work through you. This is His work not yours, so yes it’s scary but He is there. And yes you could get hurt, you could die even, but how awesome is it to follow The Lord into the storm. He has already won and He has already won in Honduras. It might not look like it looking from the outside in, but from where we were, the inside out, He has been working. We got to see His GLORY SHINE!!!!
