Honduras Trip - Day 1

We went to Tegucigalpa, Honduras on October 6-9 to search out a ministry possibility for our family after our year of language school here in Costa Rica. Will feels called to train pastors in under-resourced areas of Latin America, and several connections led us to explore the very real possibility of working with El Camino de la Vida in Honduras with Melvin Zelaya and the Allen family.

I'm going to break the trip up into 3 different posts for our 3 days we were there.

Day One:

Thank goodness for Nintendo in airports

As soon as we got there (only a 1 hour flight), we immediately left for the mountains for Thursday church at one of Melvin's church plants. It's in a town called Las Casitas (won't be found on a map) and Will actually took our youth group to work there several summers ago. They dug ditches to keep the water away from the church, mixed concrete to build a wall for classrooms and bathrooms on the back and painted.

Church in Las Casitas

Here's the ditch from several years ago...still there and still working!

Here's the wall from several years ago. They now have concrete poured for the floor and continue to make progress on the back side of the church.

Jack climbing on the Land Rover. Kids were running everywhere and kept watching Emma and Jack the whole time. The people in Honduras are darker skinned, so my lily-white children stuck out big time. But instead of trying to talk or play with them, my kids decided to freak out and ignore them. When is this Spanish stuff gonna start making sense to them??? So frustrating.

Inside the church. Missionary Matt Allen on the left. He leads a small discipleship group of guys before church on Thursdays. There are only a few men who attend this church and the rest are women and children. We sang and Melvin preached for about an hour to around 20 people. Melvin's wife, Carol, takes the children in another building next to the church and teaches lessons and songs to them. A toddler ran circles around the room during the service and one lady nursed her baby the whole time. How do you concentrate on preaching with all that going on???

Check out that sunset outside! So beautiful up on the mountain. This area got electricity only a few years ago and Melvin says that church attendance has dropped a bit since then. Now people just want to sit around and watch tv! There were no bathrooms so our kids had to go outside. I have a feeling they'll get pretty used to that. We then finished the day with our 2 hour drive back to Tegucigalpa. Some random lady waved our car over and gave us some corn on the cob she just boiled. I don't know why but I ate it...it wasn't very good.