Final Thoughts and Plans for the Future

So yesterday (Friday) was a travel day for our team.  The drive from Tocoa to San Pedro Sula where we fly home from is around 6 hours, so the team likes to break it up a little so its not such a long day.  Friday we drove a good distance so on the day of our flight we have less driving time.  During that drive and our time relaxing you have some time to reflect and contemplate the past week.

Our Wisconsin team leaders joined the Illinois team this week primarily as a exploratory mission to figure out how we can best partner with this team and bring our own teams in the future to continue and help grow the mission in this area.  There is much work to do and I think there will always be a need.  Laceibita is an area where few missions go as many go to Tegucigalpa and those surrounding areas.  I think partly because its harder to get to Laceibita than those other areas.

After spending the week working with the people of Laceibita and talking with mission coordinators and Pastors, we will come back in February most likely to help with the construction of the new church and possibly a VBS also.  We will also continue to help with the efforts down in Laceibita in the feeding center and schools etc.  We have much planning to do and logistics to figure out but I am confident the Lord will lead us in the right direction and we will go where we are needed.

My first mission trip was about 5 years ago and when I decided to go on a mission trip I had no idea it would become a part of who I am and that I would be in it for the long haul.  I believe everyone should go somewhere on mission at least 1 time.  I challenge everyone to go and then tell me it didn’t change you.  I love to travel and visit new places, but unless you take the time to see the real life in those places you don’t see and have not grown.  Honduras has some beautiful coastal and touristy resorts. They are on pristine beaches with beautiful Caribbean waters.  If you visit a resort like these in Honduras I can promise you you are not seeing 95% of the people and the country.  Honduras is one of the poorest countries in the world.  People live in absolute poverty.  Resources to help those who need it are scarce and governments corrupt. Yet even with all of the negativity and sadness we see in the media there is hope.  Hope because there are people who care and the Honduran people are beautiful people and Gods children too.  I challenge you to “Open” your eyes and your heart and spend time in mission with these beautiful people.

Words from Michael Smiths Song, Open the Eyes of my Heart.

Open the eyes of my heart, Lord
Open the eyes of my heart
I want to see you
I want to see you

To see you high and lifted up
Shinin in the light of Your glory
Pour out your power and love
As we sing Holy, Holy, Holy

Ephesians 1:18
“Open the eyes of their hearts, and let the light of your truth flood in.  Shine Your light on the hope you are calling them to embrace.  Reveal to them the glorious riches You are preparing as their inheritance”
























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