Live Like A Honduran

We had to jump through a few more hurdles at the airport but we made. Yipee!

Lake Yajoa Bilingual School started 4 days later. I’m teaching 2nd grade and Michael is teaching Bible. We’ve been given almost no instruction on how and what to teach.

The downside of that is, we were at a total loss when school first started. We had to develop our own lesson plans and strategy AND QUICK. The upside is we have the freedom to teach how we want.

Michael is teaching straight through the Bible for grades 1 through 4. How wonderful to have the freedom to teach the Bible.

I have been teaching academics all in English, which I have found to be quite a challenge since most of these kids hardly speak English. Needless to say I have been learning Spanish very quickly.

School has been a challenge for our children because they’ve never been in a classroom setting before. This has been really good for them. Half of their classes are in Spanish. They really have to pay close attention to keep up with the rest of the class.

This is our helper, Bani. She helps care for Jayden while we’re teaching.

Meanwhile, while school is in session, Calvary Chapel Peña Blanca is being built down the road completely by hand. Right now we are meeting in the home of one of the locals.

Living here hasn’t been so easy for us because we are so accustomed to the American way of life. We have no air conditioning. It’s sweltering hot and humid. Our family is covered in mosquito bites. Every bit of plumming in our place leaks. The toilet doesn’t flush. When it rains, which is pretty much everyday at 4p, our house floods. We don’t have our own car out here which makes it very difficult to get around. It’s been very difficult to find working internet. I could go on and on, but when I look around we are still living better than most of the Hondurans around us. I have to remember that we didn’t come to Honduras to live in the lap of luxury.

We feel like God wants to accomplish a tremendous work here in Honduras but we are realizing that more importantly He wants to accomplish a work in us personally.

Our biggest prayer request right now is that we would adjust to this culture. I think I’ll write a song to the tune of “Walk Like An Egyptian” and call it “Live like a Honduran.”

Tom this picture is for you.

In His Grip,
Michael, Golden, Avalon, Micah, Zachary and Jayden

We Got 'Em

Praise the Lord! We got our passports. They were waiting for us in the Delta Cargo Bay when we landed in Ft. Lauderdale. I'm overwhelmed at how God took care of all this. Michael did get a 10 year passport, but I (for whatever reason) only got a one year. But that's OK. I have one. We are waiting at the gate for our international flight and reflecting on God's faithfulness. Thank you all for praying. Our request got passed around to several prayer chains. We felt your prayers. This is totally amazing. We are relieved.

Ooops! Lost Passports!

PLEASE be praying for us. We discovered as we were moving out of our house that we accidently threw away our new passports and kept our old ones. We discovered this 5 days before we are supposed to leave for Honduras.

An agency in New York that specializes in emergency passport issues is helping us to resolve this. It's concievable that our new passports could arrive at and be waiting for us at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport on the day we are supposed to catch our plane to Honduras. But, there are many variables.

By faith our family will fly to Ft. Lauderdale as planned and hope for the best when we get there. My parents will be travelling with us.

A worse case scenario is that our passports are not at the airport waiting for us in which case my parents would take the kids on into Honduras and we would wait in Ft. Lauderdale until our passports arrive.

We feel absolutely horrible about our careless mistake. We will most likely be penalized by the government and only be issued a one-year passport.

If you are on or part of a prayer chain, can you please circulate this prayer request through the chain?

Pray that our passports will be waiting for us at the Ft. Lauderdale airport and that we won't have to be separated from our kids. Pray that we will be issued regular 10 year passports.

Broken, but available to serve Jesus,
Golden, Michael and Family