2413 Honduras Team

We are so grateful to have prayer partners from St. John's who are supporting this mission trip through their daily prayers: Tom, Darcel, Melodee, Gary, Adele, Judy, Marge, Sandy, Amy, Karin and Brenda. Rhonda led our morning devotions and helped us understand the journey from euphoria to plummeting when entering a new culture — and a mission trip. We are at the halfway point. We struggle. We focused on many Biblical characters who struggled. Psalm 77:1-7 was written by David who struggled when Saul chased him down. King David always praised God and gave Him glory. Oh my, were we busy today! There was a full house of people waiting for us when we arrived at 8:30 even though we weren’t opening until 9:00am. We served 167 people, providing 182 pairs of glasses. We provided 35 people with just sunglasses. Total pairs of glasses distributed today with each person receiving sunglasses and/glasses or just sunglasses was 399 pairs. These ladies (above) were excited to receive sunglasses a...

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,...