Peaceful Elections

The people celebrated all week in election rallies around the country. Today Pepe was elected with over 55% in a peaceful election process. Now everyone in Honduras has high hopes that everything will go back to normal.

I started thinking about a visit to the mountains a year ago. I went with the outreach pastor, Jorge. We took the bus from the farm town to La Esperanza about twenty minutes away to catch the bus to Monte Verde. We spent the night is a wood shack of a building with a tin roof. It was mostly air tight and didn’t leak much. We hung hammocks from wall to wall to sit and sleep. As a lay there I began to think of the people on the top of the mountain with sticks as walls and thatch as roofs. A heavy rain came early that night and I thought, ‘I am glad that I had a tin roof to keep it dry in side. Then I thought about the people with thatch roofs mostly leaking and making mud out of the dirt floors. After the rain stopped the wind started blowing it was chilly and I was very glad to have the nice wood plank walls. I was tucked into my sleeping bag nice and warm. I was praising God that I was dry and warm. Then my mind turned back to the people in the mountains four hours hike from where we were sleeping. I know they were cold in the stick huts. Some put mud in the cracks to try to abide the winds but that doesn’t last for long. And the wind in the mountains is strong and cold. The people are friendly and open to the gospel. Providing better housing and knowledge to improve their crops brings a chance to share knowledge to improve their spiritual lives as well.

Despite the accidents it has been a great month!

Poor Melissa! Read all about her accidents at http://www.heavensreach.org/newsletters/200911.pdf

Mudding for Jesus!

In the US most truck and suv owners do not off road. Others look for places to go and test their stills. Some even go to a course that is designed with that in mind. Here in Honduras we do not have to go looking. We do mudding on the roads and test our skills just to get to a location to build a church or have a medical clinic.

If you enjoy the outdoors and want to enjoy great sensory think about coming to Honduras instead of Colorado next summer. You will be blessed while you help the people of Honduras.

Going as fast as you can and still only going 30 miles in 2 hours to reach a village for Christ.

That’s mudding for Jesus……..

For more information about trips to Honduras go to http://www.heavensreach.org/shorterm.htm