Rollerblades

Sisi, Pamela, and Reina

Ana and Daniela trying to help Pamela.

I stand a few feet from a mirror and see the face of a man who failed.....who failed his Maker. Again, I promised I wouldn't but I did. I was quiet when I should have been bold. I took a seat when I should have taken a stand.
If this were the first time, it would be different. But it isn't. How many times can one fall and expect to be caught?.........

Your eyes look in the mirror and see a sinner, a failure, a promise-breaker. But by faith you look in the mirror and see a robed prodigal bearing the ring of grace on your finger and the kiss of your Father on your face.....

Your eyes see your faults. Your faith sees your Savior.
Your eyes see your guilt. Your faith sees his blood.

When God Whispers Your Name
Max Lucado

Campaign cont.

The ladies from the church who helped cook all week for the people working.

Dorian

These are most of the guys who worked all week visiting and studying with many people.

German preaching the first night.

Baptisms

There was a campaign last week here in Santa Ana. Lots of lives were given to God and changed. Let's pray for those as they are our new brothers and sisters in Christ as they begin their journey.

Getting ready

Today we started getting geared back up for school. Elvia along with some of the older kids sorted and looked for all of the school containers in our bodega. We think most of them where found.
So Elvia and I started sorting all of the stuff out this morning and calling the kids in one by one to try on pants, skirts, shoes, gym pants, and shirts on. It took us most of the morning.
There are only a few things we have to buy. With 16 out of 17 kids going to school and only having to buy a few things is wonderful. Next week we hope to get book bags and some supplies in their book bags. Since we are getting all of the stuff sorted and organized the kids are getting pretty excited and are ready to go back to school. I am sure it will not take very long for some of them to be in school for them to decide that they want to be on vacation again.
We still do not know exactly when school starts yet but around the 15th of February. We go to register the kids the first week in February and then we should know for sure when school does start back up.

Bank Celebration

The kids with some of the staff from the bank.

It is very rare that we get help here from Honduras. We have been connected with a local bank in Teguc now for a little over a year. They have came and shared with the kids here at Casa. They came in Dec. to celebrate Christmas with the kids. It just happened to be on Doris's birthday so she had a great party!!!

Renia with her new barbie dolls.

Cindy with her new princess tea set.

Fernando taking his turn at the pinata

Getting ready to cut the cake for a birthday celebration with Doris!

Snack time!!!!

Getting ready to do a relay race

Singing together

Ice Breakers

Bank Celebration

The kids with some of the staff from the bank.

It is very rare that we get help here from Honduras. We have been connected with a local bank in Teguc now for a little over a year. They have came and shared with the kids here at Casa. They came in Dec. to celebrate Christmas with the kids. It just happened to be on Doris's birthday so she had a great party!!!

Renia with her new barbie dolls.

Cindy with her new princess tea set.

Fernando taking his turn at the pinata

Getting ready to cut the cake for a birthday celebration with Doris!

Snack time!!!!

Getting ready to do a relay race

Singing together

Ice Breakers

Adventure

As I had said before my dad came here to visit us and to help out with repairs here at Casa. Well he got here the 18th of Dec and was suppose to leave Jan 8th. Well last Saturday we left Santa Ana about 9am. We thought that was plenty early because his plane did not leave until 1:20pm. Well little did we know that there would be a long line of traffic. When I say long I mean 15km of traffic. We weren't sure what the cause was but knew we needed to get around it to get to the airport in time. Traffic got to be two and three lanes wide and people crowding in front of one another. At this rate we were not going anywhere real fast at all. We found a few dirt roads that took us around and about. Two of the three back roads we took helped us out. One of them really did not help at all, it might have even put us further behind. As time continued to tick we saw we were not going to make it to the airport in time before my dad's flight left. Although we finally did get to the airport about 1:30ish to find out the plane had just left.
So we started reconfiguring only to find out all this week the flights were full. They could put him on stand by every day to see if they could maybe get him on a flight. They actually seemed pretty confident that with being on standby he would get a seat.
So Sunday morning Dorian made other arrangements for someone to take care of things at church and he headed off to the airport with my dad at 7am to make sure they got there in time. Sure enough there was only a little traffic and were at the airport a little after 8. The counter had not even opened up yet. So they waited til 10 am when someone got there. They checked my dads bags and sent him upstairs to wait. They said they would not know until 12:30 or so if he had a seat. So about 12:30 they told him to go ahead and pass security and they said they thought that the y had a seat for him. Dorian waited just in case they did not have a seat for him. Sure enough about 2pm my dad comes walking back out and down to the counter to see what they can do next. What had happened is all of the extra seats the airline had they sold them to another airline that was sold out so therefore there was no extra seats.
Back downstairs at the counter they reassured him that they found him a ticket for Monday. They said not to make much noise because supposedly the plane was full. They pulled a few strings to get him a seat. So my dad was feeling pretty good and knowing he had a flight for Monday.
Well Sunday night/Monday morning my dad and I both got very sick with some sort of stomach bug. So no flying for him on Monday either. The next flight they could get with an open seat was Thrusday the 13th.
He finally was able to fly out this past Thursday and made it home without any major problems.
Oh how it is always an adventure here in Honduras!!!!

Santa Ana Campaign

Santa Ana Campaign

This week here in Santa Ana there is a campaign going on. There have been 5 baptisms so far. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday was spent visiting and studying with those here in the community. Thrusday, Friday and Saturday there will be meetings in the church in the evening.
There is a group of 5 here working and then many member's here from the church are visiting and studying with them.

To God be the Glory. May lives truly be touched and changed!!!!

Will post pictures later!

Birthday's

Ana

Jackson

Happy Birthday Jackson & Ana!!!

Yesterday was Jackson's birthday and Ana's was the 4th. They have been counting down the days til their birthdays. This year they both turned 10 years old. Here at Casa when you turn 10 you no longer have to take naps but you do have to do more chores to do and have more responsibility. Right now they are excited about being 10, but who knows how long that will last before they no longer like doing extra chores.

Hay stacks

The boys in their fort

The girls in their fort

Josue stayed with the girls as their tree was lower to the ground and did not have to jump as far.

1, 2, 3, JUMP!!!! Reina jumping down off the tree into the hay.

One morning the kids had a ball with all of this hay that was cut and laying around. They gathered up piles and made the pile as large as they could and then took turns going up in the tree and jumping off. This kept them occupied for hours and they really didn't fight at all all morning long. Although when they finished they were all itchy and we all had to help one another pick the briers and stuff out of their hair and clothes.

Update Dec. 2010

Happy New Year to everyone!!! Hope that all of you have had a great holiday surrounded by friends and family.
As the new year starts I am looking forward to everything that God has in store for us. God always amazes me by what he has in store for us.
To start the month off I got to get my cast off. Yippppeeee!!! Still healing but feel a 100% better without the cast.
Maryuri and Nohemy also graduated the first week in December from kinder. They were so proud of themselves. They are now ready to go on to first grade. Maryuri has came such a long way since coming to Casa.
Dorian has been around much more and has been able to help out as he finished his classes the second week in Dec. Dorian is not the only one helping as my dad came to visit with us for Christmas and New Years. He has been a huge help and has fixed a number of things!!!
Dorian also went to Nicaragua for a few days to see his family for the holidays. I was unable to go but am anxious to get to go again with him hopefully soon.
We had a good Christmas here at Casa. The kids this year received less. Some of their stuff was given to the kids in the community who have much less.
Christmas day we had the Christmas dinner/vigil at church. The kids stayed up til 1:30am when the vigil ended. The dinner/vigil was filled with lots of fellowship, singing, eating, games, and skits. We also had a good news years. As we had lots of fun and laughter as we stayed up together as a family to see the new year.
It has been a long difficult month as we are short staff with holidays and everyone being off. I for one am very thankful to see things getting back to normal, or as normal as it gets here in Honduras.
So while Dorian and I are tired, we look forward with eager anticipation of what God will bless us with in 2011.
Blessing on you and yours this new year in 2011!!!

New Year's Eve Celebration

Happy 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!
Most of the night was spend outside with the kids running and yelling with their noise makers and glow sticks! The other part of the evening we ate, played games, played PS3,and watched a movie.

My dad playing chicken foot with some of the kids. He was missing out on playing chicken foot because every New Year's Eve he gets together with some people from church. Although playing with the kids just was not the same. They all cheated!!!!!

Jackson with his glow stick

Pizza, chips, and cookies

The "old man" being blown up at midnight!

The kids getting the "old man" ready to bring in the new year. They were having fun drawing his face on him.

Decemeber Visitation

Ana and Jose with their dad at visitation and Reina, Doris, Fernando, and Katy at visitation with their momma and brother.
It is always an adventure when we go to visitation. It is a reminder to me how blessed we really are. Hopefully it reminds the kids too of how blessed they really are.

It's raining, it's raining.......

Cleaning out the old dirty water! The kids decided they would play in it. By the time it was all over with they were all shivering and ready to go take a shower and put on dry clothes.

Christmas Day Dinner

Christmas Tree
This year the church Christmas dinner was held on Christmas Day. It was from 8pm-2am. We needed our time together with taking communion together.
Everyone signed up for food and we all came together and shared everything and had a great supper together as brothers and sisters in Christ.
There was lots of interactive games, preaching, singing, skits, and eating! It was a great night of fellowship together!

Contest to see who was singing louder!!!!

The youth group skit

The kids from the church putting on a small program

The youth even did a modeling show for the new clothes for 2011!!! ;)
Bryan modeling the new out to eat clothes!

Kelin modeling the formal wear!

Dorian leading everyone in singing

Decorating the chuch buidling Christmas Eve

Rosy decorated herself!!!!