Food Distribution

We distributed food on Thursday! We went to Choluteca, La Fortunita, Los Humos and Cerco de Piedra. It was fun getting to talk to a few of the families and very interesting to see how they live. It looked exactly like the commercials you see on tv for charities or pictures from World Vision or Compassion International. When I started to think about how they live everyday, it is so different from my own life, here in Tegucigalpa and in the US in KC and Joplin. They have small homes with dirt floors, no running water, no electricity. I wish I could have spent a little more time in each place getting to know people, although I couldn’t do much since I didn’t speak their language. Here are a couple pictures and the stories of people in them:


This is one of the ladies Honduras Ministries provides food for in Los Humos. I don't know much of her story, but I will remember her forever i hope. When Francis said we were going to pray before we left, the woman began to walk towards the church building, apparently thinking that was the only place we can pray. Francis call her back and explained to her that God lives in each of us, not in the church building. The church is a house where we meet, nothing more. God is in us always. The whole day, it was awesome to hear Francis explain more about the character of God to people so they could understand how he changes lives.


This is the site in La Fortunita that Honduras Ministries currently owns and is fundraising (i believe) to build a church on. They have already built a beautiful church in Cerco de Piedra, wired with electricity so the church can worship at night too. The people in La Fortunita have not place of their own to worship, but meet outside, unprotected from sun and rain.


handing out food in La Fortunita


Us with Umberto, the first person Honduras served in the Choluteca area. They have been bringing him food for 10 years. He is blind and makes beautiful hammocks for a living. He is a wonderful, prayerful man. He told Nicole and I that he has two new people to pray for everyday. He loves God very much.

Prayer Requests:
-the people that we brought food to, that it would nourish them and they would know, as Francis explained to each person we talked to, that it is from God and only through God are we able to do what we do. That each person would would truly know God and His love
-for Umberto, who is having some health problems with his hear, if i understood correctly
-for Francis, she has had a stressful week, between getting the van fixed, multiple problems with the water system here at her house, and Jim being gone so she has to take care of everything. She is an absolutely amazing, Godly woman who works very hard to serve people. I respect and admire her very much. And that Nicole and I are able to help her out in any way she allows us.
-for Jim as he is in the US, that his hand can heal, and he can come back soon

and the continuing requests that i can be useful and serve God well here in the Tegucigalpa and serve the ministry well, and for language learning!