Honduras 2009

"The country is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, and to the southeast by Nicaragua. Its size is just over 62,137 miles(110,000 km) with an estimated population of almost 7,500,000. Its capital is Tegucigalpa."

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Saturday, somewhere between midnight and dawn, our plane landed in Atlanta bringing an end to our week long stay in Honduras. A team of 15 from Crosspoint Community Church (me included) spent a week in Guaimaca, Honduras. Our primary focus was to ease the load of work off of the full time missionaries. Though, as in most cases, that's not the only thing God had in store for us.

For the first part of the week we worked around the hospital campus. The men dug a trench to house electrical wires and the girls painted. Wednesday, we started builing a house on a previously poured concrete slab. This wasn't just any house...it was for a widow and her daughter (who are members of the church on the hospital grounds). Thursday was a site seeing/souveniers day. Friday we finished the house. Even without running water, glass on the windows, or a door it is by far the nices house in that community.

Thursday evening we all had to make a tough decision. Rumor had it that Zalaya was going to try to reenter the country again on Saturday (the same day we were scheduled to head home). We had the choice to fly out Friday with a $300 penalty per ticket or to wait it out and trust that even that stuff was in the Lord's hands.

Despite the language barrier, we were able to worship with and love on the people of Guaimaca. Its been rough adjusting to life here (even after only a week of being there). This seems cliche but my life will never be the same. The poorest person here has more than the average person in Honduras.

If you can, please pray for the following:
1. That God's will continue to be done in Honduras
2. For the right people to step into leadership for the country
3. For Victoria, the young girl who accepted Christ last Friday. And that she WON'T be the last in her country.

Beth Parker-Rowing 2009

"There is no better full-body workout than rowing. Not even swimming or cross-country skiing requires the expenditure of more kilojoules. But the same thing that makes rowing beneficial and beautiful also makes it difficult and frustrating: the stroke."

Source: Healthy Lifestyle-The Preferred Online Resource

I have never seen one person desire and achieve things quite like Beth Parker. Last winter she decided she wanted to learn to play the banjo and play it in the Christmas concert at Crosspoint. She did. The same thing happened with rowing. She thought of rowing as not only pretty to watch but as a great workout so...
...within weeks she had the art of rowing mastered. Early this year she attended a rowing camp in Florida and in April asked me to photograph her on the water.

I've tried to desire rowing...but its not my kind of workout....to say the least. I'll just enjoy it vicariously through Beth.