Well, estoy en Honduras!
My squad and I arrived in Honduras January 7th, and my smaller team (Americanos – named for coffee and highly enjoying being in coffee country) and I arrived in Santa Rosa, Honduras on January 8th.
Our ministry partners for the month are Legacy of Hope, a foster care ministry that works with children who have experienced trauma. They have a two different houses that are in our neighborhood where “Foster Moms” live with children in a home style environment. One of these homes is for transitional care and one is for crisis care. Since being here we have had the pleasure of going through trauma care training with our hosts and on how to best help the children that are living here. They have been so helpful and the training sessions have blown us away.
Our hosts and their children have been absolutely wonderful to us, inviting, and loving while we’ve been here. Specifically, I can hardly thank them enough for the 4 different days of homemade soup they gave us while I had a pretty bad cold the first two weeks. Our work this month has us split up into many different tasks during the day within our team. Since arriving my main task has been to clean, sort, and inventory the storage for all of the childrens’ supplies with our squad leader.
However, this coming week one of the “Foster Moms” who stays in the transitional care home has the week off and my teammate and I will be filling in for her together. This means that we will both be living in the home with four children and acting as their caregivers. Neither myself or my teammate (Liv) are fluent in Spanish, though we do know enough to be able to say “Are you hungry?” or “Do you need something?” that does not mean that we know what four little Spanish speakers are always trying to tell us. But we are both excited and honored to be able to serve the ministry through staying with the kids and taking care of them this week! It is a bit daunting, given that we’ve had our first day today and we have said “Tiene cuidado” (“Be careful”) more times than we can count in the past 7 hours. But bring on the divertido!
As this week progresses, please be praying for us that we can care for these children well across the different languages and also care for them well according to their needs! I am excited to get to know them and be praying over them during our time together. I would also appreciate prayers for our team as I am team leader and both Liv and I will be living separately from the rest of our team for our last full week here.
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Thank you so much to those of you who have already given, being here is still surreal and I feel so lucky to serve alongside the Lord in this way. I’ll end it here, and say Adios from me and one of the little boys who is currently trying to read over my shoulder as I write 🙂 If you’d like to know more about our ministry for this month, please visit their website! Legacy of Hope
Pictures below:
Our rooftop view (my favorite spot this month)
A few of my teammates
Just one of the great coffee days we have had here (Santa Rosa has some of the best Honduran coffee, all bias aside)
Enjoying a sunset on our rooftop. A team favorite! (Vanessa, Liv, and I)
Our Honduran Coffee Day
One of our workdays which consisted of working on wooden boards and sanding them to be shelves for the new Crisis Care Center (Me, Carly, Hannah PC: Katrina)
Some of my teammates this month heading to dinner (Liv, Vanessa, and Hannah)
