New Hope Baptist Church Construction and Eye Clinic

On June 24, New Hope Baptist Church of Raleigh arrived in Honduras ready to serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This group has a history of only working in the rain so of course while we were riding through the mountains of Honduras the Lord blessed this team with some rain showers. This group definitely has a good spirit and flexible attitude when it comes to workng in Honduras. By the time we arrived in Choluteca the rain had slowed down some. This did not dampen their spirit at all. We ate our chicken tacos and had an orientation to get ready for the week ahead. The village the team worked out of is called Las Cabesos and they were building a home for a 70 year old lady named Hilania Alvarado. Ms. Hilania along with four boys aging from 7 to 16, her son and an older gentleman laid one of the best foundations ever. The day we checked on the foundation was about a week out from the teams arrival. They were busily working on it. We noticed how muddy the road was to the house from the secondary road in the village. Questions started popping up "Will we be able to get the vehicles down to the job site or will the truck delivering the blocks, etc be able to get there?" Well we got our answers on the first day as the team arrived to get the project started. There was only 150 blocks and they were up at the secondary road leading to the road to the job site. So New Hope started loading the block on the back of the Toyota truck 50 at a time and taking to the job site. Oh it gets better. The truck could not get down to deliver the sand and gravel for the mortar. So we had to buy sand and rock from the older gentleman who helped build her foundation. After getting the blocks on site they started hauling sand in the back of the truck. All of these opportuntities never once deterred New Hope from moving forward. And for some reason the doors and windows did not get delivered to be taken out the first day. Satan was hard at work to keep New Hope from builidng this beautiful lady a home. During share time the first night one of the gentleman said he wanted to become less task oriented and more flexible in God's work. Well the entire team got that experience on the first day. With all that said they did get five courses up on the first day and before the afternoon rain came. While waiting for more blocks and for the sand to arrive some of the team members went down to a nearby river and watched children playing in the river and ladies washing their laundry. They took advantage of their down time and enjoyed what God had called them to come do in Honudras build relationships. Pastor G was even caught in a wheel barrel chilling while waiting patiently on the materiasl they need to build Ms. Hilaria's home. Famous words of Pastor G, "No problem". They took what they were given on that first day which was literally very little to work with and still met the goal for the first day and built relationships with each other and the Honduran people. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME.