Ministries at Ministerio Sal y Luz

God is working in Honduras through Sal y Luz and Henry Alvarenga, the director and the staff.  It very fails to amaze me that the staff here will work late or on the weekends as if it is natural to spend all their time with the ministry.
Henry has started his men's ministry, ten to fifteen men meet at the clinic every other week for Bible studies and to talk about how God can give them guidance so they can provide for their families.  A large garden has been planted by some of the men next door to the clinic.  All the work is done by hand with shovles and hoes.  A young, 14 year old boy is helping them every day, he has no parents and he is learning to work with men.  I think he does more work than the men.  He carried all the corn and fertilizer back to the place where they store everything when they finish.  I had to help him put the sacks on his back because it was so heavy.  The product will be sold to the ministry for our feeding centers and the men will receive their portion of the profit. We already have frioles up and are waiting for corn, carrots, squash, beets and many other vegetables to come up.
The men need something to do that will give them money to feed their families, they will have to wait on the product from the gardens.  Henry is trying to find ways for the men that want to work to provide what their families need.

Once a month, the families from the Feeding Centers that are supported the Salt and Light Ministry, come to the clinic for Bible Studies and health education.  Yesterday was the day.  The staff takes the children to a place separate from the parents and teachs them a Bible story and then they color and play organized games.  The parents meet together for topics that hopefully will improve their spiritual and physical lives.  They are picked up at 7:30 and meet for two hours. 

Last night it rained so hard, I was afraid the garden would wash away.  Hopefully it is still there.  Today we have a meeting in another town with some backers of a private school for the poor only.  It is not a business but a ministry.  From what I heard, the test scores are very high in the six grades.  They are taught English and only pay what the families can afford if anything.  Many of the public schools here are not very good and most children quit before they reach high school.  The teachers were on strike last year and the children only attended school for 90 days of the year.  I am tutoring a math class for some of the high school students that are part of our scholarship program and they don't have basic math skills.  I am talking about multiplication and division, not to mention fractions or decimals.

Thank you for all your support and prayers and thank you to the ones that made it possible for me to work with Henry and the staff at Ministerio Sal y Luz in Honduras.

God bless each of you.