Our Happy Place Day

During the last month the gas prices have sky rocketed in Honduras, the entire country.  So the locals all over the country to action on their defense. If gas prices go up then buses and taxis prices need to go up as well to pay for the fuel of their vehicles.  So on the day upon arrival of New Hope Baptist Church the protest began.  The protest continued throughout the week into the next week.  They did take Saturday and Sunday off.  There was not any violence.  The buses and taxis simply blocked anyone who was trying to travel out of Tegus, Choluteca and other main roads.  Mike and Pastor Brian made a decision to keep everyone on the ministry campus for their first day of construction work.  Actually this team was so huge we had already decided  before their arrival if you were new to Honduras you would be who would build the home and do VBS.  If you were a returnee you would help put the wrap around porch on the Honduran Dorm.  So it was just a slight change in plans.  The Honduran Dorm team just had a lot of extra help.  So we also decided we would do other projects as well, much needed stuff which needed to get done.

Mike gathered the team on the steps of the Honduran dorm to plan out their day ahead. Mike asked some to clean up the debris inside the Honduran dorm rooms where construction had taken place and also along outside the edge  of the building.  Mike needed a crew to start mixing mescal for the wrap around porch floor.  Mike added one more project which I have been asking for along time, a stable for Carolina and Tintone.  God is so good, even though we did not go to start the home for Santos and her children our first day, God was able to use these young people and their adult chaperones to further His Kingdom work here at Mt. Horeb.  Our goal is to have the Honduran dorm up and running by October and with what is fixing to unfold we may just meet our goal.