Today we went out to Santa Anna for church. The service was at the Santa Anna Church of Christ. We sang both in Spanish and English and then Chad brought us a message that Tim translated to Spanish. Chad spoke about working towards giving up everything for Christ. He used examples like Abraham who was willing to sacrifice his son because God told him to. We have to be willing to do the same, give up everything we have so that God is first in our lives, even when it may be hard because in the end He will provide for us what we need, just as he did when Abraham was about to sacrifice Isaac.
The church at Santa Anna.
Chad and Tim delivering the message at church.
At church they took up an offering, and it was truly amazing. The church there has a normal contribution of about 200 limperas ($10) a week. The offering today was 32,400 limperas or about $1,400. To put that slightly more in perspective we thought of it in the standards of a church in the US. If a church normally has an offering of about $200 it would be as though someone from another country, who doesn't speak your language, comes in and drops $300,000 into the offering, says they love you, and then gets on their bus to continue their work. It always humbles me to see the giving hearts of those on these trips. People who work to raise money to come, shop and give to the community, but then are still able to give so much to a local congregation to further the efforts of Gods Kingdom.
After church the kids put on a little performance for us. If you look on my facebook there should be a live video of it.
After church we made out way to the mall for lunch. We also were able to watch the Denmark/Croatia game, which was exciting because it was a great game to watch! For anyone who doesn't keep up with it, someone had to win this game. It went into extra time and then into penalty kicks before Croatia kicked Denmark out of the running! Soccer is always so much more fun to watch down here because it is so loved in this part of the world! In Honduras they had a huge set up at the mall for people to come and watch the game. The food court was filled with people sitting and watching the game.
Staple for every trip I go on.
This is the watch party area at the mall they have set up. The screen was huge and everyone was standing around it. So much fun watching with people who are into the game! You should have seen/heard the crowd when Croatia missed the one kick!
Once lunch was over we made out way back to the Mission House. The doctors had arrived from the airport and we got to work sorting meds for our medical clinic this week. We always manage to have such a great time sorting meds, even when we accidentally sort bags of 60 and then have to resort them into bags of 15 🤣
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Sorting is always so much fun! It gives me a respect for the pharmacy that I never had before!
Scott and Cassidy working on lables for Zpacks
Hannah putting lables on bags.
Smiling faces even though most have left and we are here fixing a mistake.
We don't want to give out 60 of these guys so we had to change the bags to 15.
There were a lot of this med.
Dinner tonight was from Taco Loco, a staple meal here on the days that the ladies at Villa Gracia have off. Taco Loco caused devo yo be slightly later then normal. Matt spoke tonight on the love that God has for those I his family. He spoke on the fact that although God breathed life into each one of us it is our choice to become part of the family. Gods family are those following Him. He wants each of us but in the end sadly not all are party of the family. But if you are, and God has a cell phone, you would be the background on His phone because you are His child.
Birthday celebrations in Honduras are always so much fun.
Tomorrow is sure to bring about a lot of adventures! Sad to think we are already in the home stretch of the trip, I really don't want it to end.
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