Honduras and especially Salt and Light Ministry is a very busy place in June and July. Since May 24th, there has been a team with us every day. The people that come from the churches in the states and give up their time to minister to the people in Honduras are very special people and we love for them to come and spend time with us at the clinic and Lake Yojoa.
The last two weeks of June we had teams from the Jackson area. St. Marks UMC is from the reservoir area and Covenant Presbyterian is from Jackson. St. Marks was suppose to fly in on a Thursday but when they got to the airport, their flight had been cancelled so they rescheduled the group for Friday. On Friday, the flight was cancelled again with small groups of the team rescheduled on different planes on the next few days. Eleven people had to cancel because of work conflicts and will not be able to come at all this year. Three team members drove to New Orleans and caught a flight out of there.
About the time that we got all of their team to the lake with us, Covenant started arriving with their team. They made it on one plane but then it was time to start taking the St. Marks team back to the airport to return home. It took four trips back to the airport to get them back home.
Considering the problems with Delta, the teams were able to accomplish a lot in the time they were there. St. Marks build three houses, taught ladies to sew, conducted VBS and did door to door evangelism. They had a good week in spite of the problems with their flights. Everything was done in a small mountain village called Los Lamitos. The people are poor and only one young lady from their village has been able to finish high school because of the distance to the nearest high school. God is in Control.
Covenant Presbyterian and New Hope Baptist that always come as one team build four houses and visited four mountains villages with doctors and nurses to tend to the sick. The bus could not make it up the hill at the first village so they had to walk part of the way which was a little difficult for some of the team members but they made it. The group showed the Jesus Film to the people at San Buenoventura one night and that was a very good production.
I came home with Covenant on the 30th to attend my grandson's first birthday party but will be returning on Thursday. Henry has two teams there by himself so I am anxious to get back and try to help him.
Henry took Hemi to the capitol to get her visa so she can make the trip here with him in September. We are hopeful that she was able to get the visa. Lesly is going today to try and get her visa also. We pray that both of them are successful.
Thank you for all your support and prayers. We will try to keep you updated on all the wonderful things happening at with the teams that are visiting us this year. We are growing and God is blessing our mission.
