What we've been up to...

We have been helping to host a team of missionaries from New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. To show what they/we've been doing, we have a blog that we update daily. Check it out - www.cthonduras.wordpress.com (ct as in Community Transformation)

When you go there, select the "New Life Missions Team - June" category. From there, you can click on the dates to read the full blogs for each day.

We're going to be creating a new blog on wordpress, and we'll let you know when it's up. Also, we're planning on heading to the States to raise some support, so we'll let you know what we're up to there. Catch you later guys!

with love,
Dave and Becky

Starting the new ministry!

Yesterday, we officially started our new ministry! We had a few days off as we transitioned from teaching into the new positions, but it was good to get back to work. We spent the day planning and organizing for the short term team that is coming down from Jeff and Julie's church this Thursday. I didn't take any pictures... BUT I do have some pictures of a few other things :) Here thet are, going from oldest to newest pictures and information...

A few weeks ago, we got to take Carla Patricia's mom to go see her! Carla has been staying in a home for extended care, close to a hospital. She is getting medical attention and plenty of food. She is doing much better! She was laughing and playing during her visit. Please continue to pray for her as the road to recovery from severe malnutrition is a long and dangerous one. It seems simple, right? Just give kids like that food! But it is actually a much more complicated process, as we are finding out.

Jeff and Carla Patricia

Julie and Becky play with one of the other girls at the home

Carla talks with her mom and brother

The Lighthouse Christian Bilingual School proudly graduated 11 seniors on Friday, June 5th. It was a memorable ceremony, followed by a party put on by several of the students. Congratulations to all of our seniors!

The school board

Francis, one of our seniors

Class of 2009!

Becky at the party after graduation

Zoila, one of the Honduran high school teachers, had a going-away celebration for us and Melissa! It featured sopa marinera (seafood soup) and lots of friends from school.

Becky and everyone enjoying the meal

Also, Ansia took us to Rancho San Louis last weekend. I think it is the closest thing Honduras has to a zoo. It is a functioning cattle ranch with a number of (mostly) native animals including macaws, oceleots, monkeys, iguanas, toucans, and a kinkajou

sleepy ocelot

Becky, Ansia, and Claudia pet the cattle

yeah I'm not sure what this bird is but it was cool

monkey!

¡Que capacidad! (What ability!)

Since living here, where we have to walk to the grocery store (sometimes in blinding heat) we’ve become really skilled at “foraging.” We can scan the contents in the fridge and come up with a creative way of combining them together. For example, last night we scanned the fridge to find: onion, cabbage, carrot, and some various sauces (sometimes, the fridge is emptier than others…). Hmm…. We thought… what shall we do? Immediately we decided on a cabbage stir-fry, similar to my mom’s. Dave cut up all the veggies and we had started stir-frying when Dave discovered that the soy sauce had molded. (Yes, when you live in Honduras, not only can you get sunburned when it’s raining, anything that doesn’t move can and will mold.) What to do now!?! So we looked though our other sauces and found an asian sesame dressing. Perfect! When it was all done, we had bowls of sesame-cabbage stir-fry, but it was incomplete. After a bite or two, I thought, this tastes like the inside of an egg roll! Then we came up with it – a deconstructed egg roll! We fried some flour tortillas in oil and ate our “filling” on them! Delicious and easy!

It’s too bad I don’t have a photo; sometimes we don’t realize our personal genius until it’s too late… :)

(haha, when I originally typed this, I misspelled “genius”… how fitting!)

We love you all!