Honduras, Morning #2
Good morning everyone! I am so sorry for not posting last night, by the time we got back to the hotel from dinner and had our debriefing and devotion, I found my Wifi password wasn’t working so I had to go to the front desk this morning to get a new one. This one will last for the remainder of the time we are here though, so we should be all good to go! Please forgive the brevity of this post, we are leaving to head out for day 2 in less than 10 minutes but I just wanted to give you guys a brief update on how things went yesterday.
Considering it was our first day, everything went very well. We got to tour both the Buckner CTC and the Casitas Kennedy Orphanage before beginning our time of ministry. At the CTC we worked with around 50 or so children, mostly ages 4-10. They were such awesome kids and had the most amazing spirit about them. We shared the story of creation and Jesus with them, colored some of their favorite animals and of course played soccer with the boys. We are heading back this morning to do the same thing, however, we will be with a different group of students each day.
After lunch we arrived at Casitas Kennedy and to say the least I was blown away by what I saw. The government ran facility was extremely dilapidated and run down, but the kids we saw upon entering were so happy to see us. They ran up and immediately began hugging us and did not want us to ever put them down. Our tour of the facility however showed us that not everyone there is so joyful and so happy. We will be working with a large group of teenage girls who are forced to be kept under lock and key all day every day because they are a constant threat to run away from the orphanage and either become criminals or become prostitutes. The amount of spiritual darkness I saw on their faces both blew me away and broke my heart at the same time, that somehow selling your body for sex would be a better alternative to where you currently were is still baffling and saddening. Pray for this group especially that our students would be able to be a light in their world of darkness and that they can begin building relationships and interacting with them today so that by the end of the week the good works we have laid before them show them no one else but Christ and Christ alone.
Our prayer today is that we would not sell God short of what He wants to do through us today, that our expectations would be His expectations and that even today we would see great and mighty things worked out before our eyes by God and that through His grace He would allow us to be a small part of it.
Until tonight,
John
