This month is almost over. I’m not sure where the last 3 weeks have gone but I am absolutely confident of two things.
1. I’m not ready to leave Honduras yet; specifically our ministry host and all these beautiful kiddos. I’ve grown to love them so much!
Matt and Marianne with all of their beautiful children!
This month my team has been working at the Legacy of Hope Foundation in Santa Rosa De Copan in Honduras. The Legacy of Hope Foundation is a crisis care center for children who have gone through incomprehensible trauma and abuse. Our ministry hosts, Matt and Marianne have built a loving and safe community where these kids receive unconditional love as well as medical and psychological care.
Our team has been split up this month for different jobs and we have been able to accomplish so much! The first week, Katrina and I were in charge of taking all the kids clothes from the old kids center to the new center and making an inventory of each item. We planed and sanded boards for shelves, puttied and painted walls, cleaned insect poop off of shelves and more. At the end of week 2, we had the new center set up and ready to move the kids! It was so rewarding to hear how much the kids loved their new home!
This past week me, Katrina, Carly, and Jon had the task of turning the old center into the new mission house for future mission teams! We puttied walls, treated mold spots, and painted the entire house (I may have gotten more paint on myself than the actual walls). Friday, we set the rooms back up, cleaned the house and once we finished painting our whole team got to draw a mural on the chalk walls for future mission teams! I loved working with these guys, we laughed, sang, and danced so much that what we were doing didn’t even feel like work. Oh, and THE HOUSE LOOKS AWESOME!
Liv and Joanna have been living in the transition house since last weekend as foster moms. They have been taking care of these kids in such a beautiful way and showing them so much love! Vanessa has been with them during the day to clean the house and give them breaks, she is such a humble servant! They have done such an incredible job and I’ve loved watching them interact with the kids.
(We can’t show photos of any of the children’s faces for privacy reasons other than our ministry hosts kids.)
And 2. I’ve never been more at peace than I am right now. I know I was created to be here at this exact moment, working with the Legacy of Hope Foundation with the team that was hand-picked by the Lord.
This month has been a dream. I’ve laughed so much that I actually ache. I’ve fallen in love with the sweetest, goofiest kids. Things that I thought would be difficult have been so easy that it seems I’ve been doing them my whole life. I’ve sat with the Lord under the most beautiful landscapes I’ve ever seen. I’ve learned things about myself in community that I never realized. I’ve grown to love my team so much that you would think we’ve known each other for years. The list is endless.
I miss being able to see everyone from home but I can’t tell you that I’m homesick because I’m not. I’m not ready to leave Honduras yet but I am excited to experience the love and joy that I’ve felt this month all over the world.
Please keep my squad in your prayers as we begin traveling to Nicaragua on Tuesday! We will have a 5 day debrief that consist of rest, worship, sessions, and time with our squad before ministry begins.
