Whenever Mike and I have a break in teams we head back down South. We like to get all the items donated throughout the year and get them distributed to different villages. We had collected numerous beanie babies and onsies for the baby bags for the hospital. So I saved these items so Richard and Suszon could help us bagged up the items for future deliveries to the hospital. After doing this we took hygiene kits and put them together along with some donated hygiene kits we received while we were home Christmas. Also a team had bought books for one of the local schools. The second morning they were they we adventured out to this school to give the children story books in Spanish. Oh my goodness were they so excited to receive brand new books. There was Dr Seuss book, Green Eggs and Ham, Curious George and so many more. The children got tickled with Dr Seuss. They thought he looked funny. I am supposing these children had not ever seen Dr. Seuss before. Also the children and teachers received hygiene kits. This was a day of excitement for the school and for us as well. We left this school and headed to another village to a school where we gave them hygiene kits, tennis balls and school supplies. We arrived when the parents were feeding the children their lunch of beans, rice and two tortillas. Afterwards we went to visit a lady we had built a home for and gave her and neighbors hygiene kits as well. She was very gracious to prepare us a fresh cup of coffee as we sat under three large mango trees and communicated with the Honduran neighbors of our friend, Ms. Aleida. This was probably the best cup of coffee not because of the coffee but because of the hospitality shown by all who were under those mango trees on this particular morning.
We left their and went to town to buy beans and rice to feed some families in one of the local villages we help. We contacted the pastor and he said he would be glad to give them out in church on Sunday. We spend the rest of the day and evening bagging up the beans and rice. You can feed one family a bag of beans and a bag of rice for $2.00. We were able to provide food for 64 families.
God is so good all the time all the time God is so good. What do we spend $2.00 on daily? You can feed a family of four for one week one bag of beans and one bag of rice for $2.00. What a productive day in the name of Jesus. Thank you God for letting us be the hands and feet of Jesus.
"The most important one," answered Jesus, "Is this: O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these."
Mark 12:29-31
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