Team 126 Kenansville Baptist - Home Construction

Our last team of the year, Team 126 from Kenansville Baptist Church came in the airport all excited and ready to go to Choluteca. They loaded up the Kia truck with all their luggage and off we went to build Pastor Hector and his family a home. We had several first timers who enjoyed the mountainous ride and the beauty of the mountains. There was alot of excitement from the passing of vehicles going through the mountains. But by the end of the week they were well adjusted to the driving styles of the Honudran drivers. We met that night to discuss the week ahead. The next morning they were up early and off to Oricuina to build the home. Pastor G, construction team leader and Jose G, his disciple met us at the house and rode out to the job site. The team had a beautiful ride each day to the town of Oricuina. The beauty of God's creation was all around them on the road and most definitely on the job site. They had a bit of a challenge once they arrived at the job. They had to go down a bank and through a dried up river and back up the bank to get to the job site. They were very blessed that week with about eight Hondurans helping them build the house. That bank seem to get steeper and steeper each day. But Pastor Hector cut out steps on the bank so it would be easier for the team and Honduran workers to get up and down. God is good all the time. They had one really hot day on the job but the rest of the week they were blessed with a breeze blowing and numerous butterflies were there all week long. It was just a beautiful sight. How blessed they were that week to have such a place of beauty to build the home for Pastor Hector. As the week progressed each team member found his place in the process of building the home. There are so many different jobs in building a home in Honduras. Some of the jobs are sifting the sand, mixing mortar, water girls, block layers. block carriers, block cutter, filling in the mortar joints, putting on the roof and pouring the floor. It takes the whole team to get the house build. We were so blessed this week with the Americans and Hondurans working side by side to build this home. There was never once a language barrier between the workers because God was at the center of all they did. God is good all the time. Thank you Kenansville Baptist Church for a job well done.

Home dedication and Church Service

The home was completed and the dedication was held inside the home with all the American and Honduran workers there. The team leader shared a few words and gave Pastor Hector and his family a lock and key and a family bible. One of the team member shared a photo album full of pictures of the week. There was a lovely rock shaped like a heart found by one of the team members. She had everyone sign it and presented it to the family. This was a very special time of dedication. Pastor Hector shared how he, his wife and two daughters have been waiting for three years for this home. Three years ago the nicely paved road to Oricuina was a dirt road and it took almost two hours to get there. Once the road had been paved it took only forty five minutes to get up to Pastor Hector's property. They were so excited to finally get their new home and they were so appreciative of what North Carolina Baptist had done for them. On Sunday we were able to worship at the church which Pastor Hector is going to pastor. The ladies of the team sang a beautiful hymn in English and one of the translators sang the chorus in Espanol. Their translator shared an inspiring testiomony of how we should never put off what the Lord has called us to do. Job well done. The children were dismissed for Sunday School and a couple of the team members went back to assist with Sunday School. The children of Honduras do not do crafts in Sunday School. They learn a bible verse and a song to come back out to the congreation and share. This was a very loving congreation and they are so blessed to be getting such a godly man as Pastor Hector.

Pastor Hector and Family

Pastor Hector has a lovely family, a wife, Ninya and two daughters, Vivan and Dina. Pastor Hector and Ninya run the Hondruas Baptist Mission Camp on the Pacific Ocean. This is located about an hour away. So this particular week Ninya and the girls were not at the job site. They were at the camp working while Pastor Hector stayed at the house helping build their new home. On the day of the dedication they had caught a bus out to Oricuina to see their new home for the first time. The most beautiful sight of the week was the two little girls climbing up the bank and coming through the field to see their new home.

Theyhad been waiting for this home for a long time. Pastor Hector shared during the dedication they had went to visit a family friend a while back and Vivian got so excited when she saw the home and ask her father was this their new home. Sadly with tears Pastor Hector said no sweet heart this is not our home but maybe one day. Well that one day finally came on Nov 7, 2010. Now Pastor Hector will be pastoring the local church and his family will have a home near their school and their friends. God is good all the time.