2413 Honduras Team

On Saturday, July 13, we held a team training, going over the stations we will man and seeing the tools that we will use to test the eyes of those coming to our clinic in La Paz.  

Thank you to our Saturday prayer partners for this trip: Tom, Sharron, Melodee, Gary, Adele, Dave, Sandy, Marge, Sandy, Amy, Brenda, Karen, Jim. Today we travel to La Paz, Honduras, from Detroit and Indianapolis. We met early (did I say early?) Saturday morning in the church parking lot. Ask Tom where he lost his phone before we even left DTW. He got to know the gate agents quite well and was relieved when Patrick stood to exit the plane in Miami. Breakfast in Miami Christen made Tom’s day with newspapers We got to experience Jesus in an odd way when we showed up at the hotel where our reservation had been made two months ago. There was now no room in the inn for our team of 12. Bit our hosts were helpful, gracious and efficient. Slowly but surely we made our way to this hotel. After getting settled in, our host led us to a local restaurant called Chef, where Rhonda (from West Lafayette, IN) shared her travel stories with the Michigan Eleven. Tacos anyone? Our meal was El Plato Paceño,...

Melodee, Sandy, Sandy, Gary, Adele, Karin, Tom, Amy, Brenda, and Nancy all signed up to pray for this mission trip today. MOST ministries taught us that a God-glorifying mission opportunity includes goers (us) and senders (which includes pray-ers.) That is why we are so grateful for our prayer partners. We distributed 146 pairs of glasses today. And if each person each received one pair of sunglasses, we distributed 160 pairs of sunglasses. Today we began with our “typical” breakfast of … eggs, refried beans and tortillas but it was presented differently, said Tom. But we were delighted to see avocado added in today. The thing that we work for is the “smiles” … Joel began our day leading a devotion, with Psalm 5, the morning Psalm of petitions. Then he read Acts 3:1-11 where Peter and John were being asked by the paralytic for alms but received healing. A late 300’s preacher, John Chrysostom, wrote about Acts 3 that a Christian must fulfill his role, using an interesting example of tre...