To day, I was honored to be one the Padrino for a child who was graduating the sixth grade. Melissa was the Madrina. He name is Delmar. He is 12 years old and his mother ties fishing lures for Mercy International. A Padrino is one that stands in as a witness that the child did graduate. You get a gift for them and during the ceremony, you walk with them and sign the paper that you know him and that you witness his graduation. This is a very special honor for me.

I was also honored at the same Graduation to be the Grand Padrino. This is one that sits at the front speaks and helps give out the diplomas. This is the same school where I have worked on the computers and where I will begin teaching the teachers how to teach computers. What a day. God has truly blessed me today.

Graduation!

This time of year is a great time of celebration for all students in Honduras, the end of school. Some are moving up to a new grade or school. Some are graduating High School looking forward to college or beginning life without school. Others are graduating the sixth grade and hoping for a scholarship. See, in Honduras they have to pay to attend secondary school. Like the kids in this picture, most do not have the ability to pay. For as little as twenty-five dollars a month a sponsor can help a child continue in school and give them a Hope and a Future. For more information, please email me at dean@heavensreach.org.

lights! yes please......

I find myself thinking back to when I called the US home. It was very predictable. turn the faucet and water...... turn the knob and gas lit....... flip the switch and wallaaaa.... light...... But here you never know when you will have either of these. Today we had electricity when I left the house in the three minutes it takes to get to the farm the electricity went away. The last time it was out for three days. This time it was only out for seven hours. Thank God for the little things.......

Living in slow motion!

Living in Honduras is sometimes living in slow motion. Time is one thing that is not worth much here. Not to say that it doesn’t matter it dose. They have not put a price tag on time like the US has. Here time spent building friendship is beyond a price. It is invaluable. Time with family is invaluable. In the US time is money. Here time is people, relationship. It is nice to think that people and relationship is worth more than money.

They are life.

Teams! They are great.

Teams are a great help to the ministry they provide friendship, funds, and man power. We can do 10 to 20 times more with teams than we can alone.

Blue Skys

Blue skys before me. Nothing but blue skys do I see. this might be a dating reference to a song from my youth. but it sumes up the beauty I see all the time here in Honduras. God's Creation is wonderful. It seems I take as many pictures of nature "God's Creation" as I do the people also "God's Creation".

Driving Jim

It sounds like a little thing, to pick someone up at the air port, until you realize it takes three hours to get there and then three hours back. But is was a pleasure for me. Jim is a friend and a confidant. It was about honoring a returning friend and visiting him on the way home.

They will follow someone.

I have found that everyone follows someone. That is not a question. the question is who will they follow. I have come to Honduras not to be followed but be the arrow that points to Christ.