Mission Trip 2010

A mission team from Penn Ave will be leaving for Honduras on May 13, 2010.

Home Safely

Just wanted to let everyone know that the mission team made it home safely.

May 28/29

One Thursday (May 28), we finished our project. The ceiling tiles are all up. The installation of 2 ceiling fans happened ... this is something very new to this community including the director. All the priming and painting was finished. The computer room/library is an off white color. The directors office is my favorite lime green and the teachers conference room is Rose colored. The windows will be purchased next week and installed and tiling put on the floor (this is part of the project that will be paid for by the Hondurans and Pastor Giron will do this starting next week.) The last team to come out in July from Victory Highway will be painting the outside and building and painting shelves for the library. There will be some sort of dedication in July of the building as Mike told the director it would be being turned over to them at that time. YEAH!!!
As for Friday (May 29), we handed out the prayer bears, toothpaste and toothbrushes and in turn, were given a wonderful presentation of song and dance by the kids and the Director thanked us and GOD for the work that we have done. They teachers and some community members cooked us up a great lunch of pinchos (beef & sausage skewers), homemade salsa, tortillas, refried beans, rice with veggies, cheese and coca cola. It was very hard saying goodbye to the kids and community we have all grown to love.
Today, May 30, the internet seems to finally be up ... and we will be tourists again. I will try to get one more BLOG out tonight. We leave Mike & Glenda's tomorrow at 9:30am to be at the airport by 10am. Our flight leaves here at 10:05am. I will keep in touch to make sure you all know we arrive safely. Please keep us in your prayers!
Thanks!
Love & Miss you all
Lisa

Honduran Internet Cafe?

Today, Dan worked with Pastor Giron on doing a shelf underneath the bar area in the cafetaria. Mark & Gayle worked on putting up the ceiling tiles in the other two rooms. Lisa, Eliza, Kelly & Sara sanded and mudded the rest of the areas and started the priming work. We also cleaned up all the work rooms with a broom and dustpan. This was a major part of the work since the sanding created quite a mess. We are getting the colored paint tomorrow for the rooms and will be able to paint each of them. We are excited that we got this much work done and are looking forward to the finished product tomorrow. Sara & Kelly also had Sendy take them to a Pupperia and we had our first Pepsi in a bag today. The director of the school visited today to see our progress.
Last night we made our first Baskins Robbins run of the week ... everyone was joyful after Dan's devotion. We got to talk to Amanda but she didn't have her devotion ready so Dan took another turn. We had to list 5 joyful thoughts and try to focus on always having joyful thoughts in our heart and mind ... so they come out our mouth and body!! It was pretty cool!
We are having spaghetti for dinner tonight ...
Mike is always laughing because out of a team of 7 we have 4 computers here ... not including his ... he is thinking of opening an internet cafe!
Missing you all ... and feeling your prayers ...

Working hard!

Kelly finished the high up painting with me and Sara filling in the white spots on the lower bricks and the drop ceiling is in the big part of the upstairs. Danny, Sara & Kelly held a 19 day old baby (a friend of Sendy who named her baby after her). What a blessing to know that this child will have a computer room and cafeteria. Gayle hung the rest of the drywall and started setting up the drop ceiling rails in the smaller room upstairs while Eliza continued to mud the drywall. Marcos and Mike and Danny worked on the drop ceiling in the bigger room upstairs. Things are going awesome. It is Amanda's turn to do devotions tonight ... we are gonna call and see if she can do it.
We had a wonderful devotion time last night that Sara did and we sang lots of songs with Marcos at the guitar. It was beautiful. We are all having a GREAT time!
We miss all of you!

Back to Work

Today we went back to work at the school. Had to be there early. Sara stayed home sick today .. too much eating the Honduran food yesterday we think. Kelly & I painted while Dan work with Pastor Giron on cement and Gayle, Mark & Eliza continued upstairs on the dry wall and started the drop ceiling. Once the paint ran out, Kelly & I also headed upstairs and put nails up where each of the wires would hold the drop ceiling. Kelly & Dan also got caught in a huge water fight in the rain ... worst storm I've ever seen here ... the kids were all throwing water on each other out of the Pila, too. Hopefully Kelly & Dan didn't swallow too much or they will be sick .. praying!!!
Tonight we went to El Patio for a traditional Honduran dinner with all the fixings and goodies. Sara was better and was able to join us. It was very good and we were entertained by a Marachi band ... pretty cool ... We then went for a drive through the capital to see Picachu and other sites.
It was a VERY GOOD time!!

No Power in Honduras!

Today we woke up to NO POWER ... we were supposed to have waffles this morning, but thanks to mission team #5 from Victory Highway and the new grill they bought Mike & Glenda, we were able to at least have eggs and sausage. Then we went to the souvenir place, Valley of the Angels. Everyone bought lots of goodies to bring home. We tasted a couple of different Honduran treats ... and really had fun together ... even with the rain. And we got to ride in the big red truck ... Kelly has a new talent .. you'll have to ask her about it.
In the evening ... we went to Pastor Giron's church. The team sang Days of Elijah and Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord and Pastor Mark preached with Glenda interpretting. It was an awesome night. Dan did devotions tonight on LOVE ... why, what, and how come!!! AWESOME day ... all in all!!!