It's been quite a journey!
Yesterday, we traveled 15 hours and arrived safely in Copan Ruinas. We had a four hour drive from San Pedro Sula and had a chance to see the countryside. Fields of sugar cane in bloom, flocks of white egrets, gorgeous mountains and roads full of pot holes that left our teeth chattering.
Today, we went to the work site at Las Luganas. What an eye opener. Families living in mud huts next to sewer ditches, toddlers running bare foot over jagged rocks, dogs and cows fending for themselves and black vultures circling overhead. We are helping the people of this village build brick homes away from the sewers with the goal of establishing a safer, more stable community. A donor from the States purchased two-acres of land for this purpose and 27 houses are to be build.
We made progress. We built up the walls of one house until we ran out of cement. Then we worked on plastering the walls of another home. We played with the children, conversed in broken Spanish with the women and learned more about the area dynamics from our hosts Tim and Gloria.
Our backs are sore, our arms are bruised but our souls are touched. We are doing important work.
Please keep us and those we serve in your prayers.
You have touched our souls too. Our thoughts and prayers are with you on this worthy mission trip. Take good care of yourselves.
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The sore muscles make for stronger spiritual lifting when you get home, so keep up the body (of Christ) building down in Honduras. And ask Dave if he heard more "fireworks" on the first night this year.
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