Fence Project

In June we started construction on the security fence project. This fence when complete will be 4 cinder blocks, 6 feet of chain link fencing,topped with two feet of constantina wire, two metal 18 foot gates for car access, and one metal 5 foot gate for people access. The fence will enclose 500 meters of property and seperate the feeding program side from the area where our future home will be. The fence will protect the feeding program garden as well as actually allow us to cook meals for the feeding program in our kitchen!


With the rise in cost of materials and shipping, we are in need of a little financial help to finish this project.

We have divided the remainder of the project into two parts.

PART ONE
chain link fencing
30 bags of cement
20 days of labor
PRAISE GOD, TOTALLY FUNDED!!!!!!!!!!!!


PART TWO
gates
20 bags of cement
5 days of labor

WE ONLY NEED $917.50





Please pray with us for this need, share with your friends, and think about giving!

If you would like to make a donation you can do so online using the paypal link  or mail checks to Root Ministries (fence project) P.O. Box 6200 Montgomery, AL. 36106

THANK YOU A HUNDRED TIMES

Yesterday, I had the honor of doing a “home visit” for two of the children in the feeding program who will attend 7^th grade at Instituto Vida Abundante starting in January.

I have known this family for about 3 years but I have never personally visited their home.

Today the mom cheerfully welcomed me in eager to listen to my ramblings in Spanish.

She was very open and honest. We talked with no culture barrier just as two moms.

A little while later her husband woke up (he works nights so he sleeps until lunch time every day)

I have never met this man but I know the way his stepsons talk about him that he is a great man. He tells me about how only the rich studied when he was young (it isn't much different now). He said he went through 6^th grade in his village. Then his sister ended up paying for him to go to high school. After high school he wants to continue to study so he took a 10 day trip in a small canoe to the city. Then he then had to hitch rides across the country. He finally ended up in the capital about a month later. With no money he had to join the military. So for 3 years he worked in the military and saved money so he could study.  When he finally left the military he had just enough money to study but not to live on. He made friends with a man who owned a wood shop. He slept on the wood at night and the man fed him in exchange for a little volunteer help. So that is how he made it through university. After he graduated he went back to his village and was a teacher for 12 years. He no longer has a place as a teacher but he still fully believes in education. He repeated over and over how he would do anything he could to help his step sons study if they wanted to study. He told me “here (la moskitia) without an education it is like driving a truck and not know how to drive then you are bound to get into something you can’t get out of. With an education you can do anything”

 

He said “Thank you” a hundred times in our conversation.

I want to say thank you, Lord and thank YOU a hundred times!

Without the Lord and each of you opportunities like 7^th grade would not be possible for these kids. Thank you for being a part of their lives, for believing in them, and believing in Instituto Vida Abundante!  

7th grade school sponsorship opportunity

Here in La Moskitia it is a huge deal to have a education through 6^th grade. To have an education beyond 6^th grade is a rare find usually reserved for the wealthy. My dear friends at Reach Out Honduras are opening Instituto Vida Abunante this February  in order to provide private Christian education to those students  who probably would not have the opportunity to study otherwise.

We are excited that from the Kasaubilia Feeding Program we have 6 students who will be attending 7^th grade this coming school year at Instituto Vida Abundante.

Derlin, Gekdar, and Jovani were accepted in the first  round and have all been fully sponsored!

 

 

Dierlin

 

Gekdar

 

Jovani

 

Monica, Marilis, and Hardi have now been accepted as well! We are still looking for sponsors for these 3 students.  The cost is 50 dollars a month for the entire year of 2014 (January-December) Please let me know if you would be interested in helping further provide a hope and a future to one of these students.

 SPONSORED

Monica

 

 

SPONSORED

Marilis



Hardi

 

Here is a little more information on the school if you are interested in hearing more: http://reachouthonduras.org/the-school-dream-with-us/

Loving your neighbor

We have two cooks for the feeding program. One cooks for a week the other cooks the next week.

One is a woman in her 40’s with 9 kids. The most humble woman I have yet to meet. She is one of those people you just enjoy spending time around. During rainy season her yard is mud. Not just a little mud, you sink ankle deep in black mud. Around her property is a trench. She always puts a stick across for me to walk. I always laugh that I am a gringa and one day I am going to end up falling face first in that trench.  This woman always stands IN THE TRENCH to hold my hands as I walk across the stick so I don’t have to walk through the trench. Last week she was inside her house and did not see me coming. I just decided to go across like the kids and walk through it. I could wash my shoes when I got home. As soon as I walked up to her house she began to say “OHH MORGAN” she ran and got a bucket of water got on her knees took my shoes off. Then she started washing my feet. She sent my shoes off with her daughter to be washed before I even knew what hit me I was being shown all the love this woman could offer.  I kept thinking this is what it looks like to love your neighbor.

 

The other woman is a young teenage mom who lives with her aunt. She is a pretty shy girl who tends to stay behind the scenes.  She is a hard worker and will do whatever needs to be done to provide for her son. She is always willing to serve with me. When we finished serving food this week and both of our hands were disgusting.  There is no running water in their home. She runs to the well gets a bucket of water from the well. She goes to hand me a cup, I went to grab it and she shakes her head no. I was confused for a minute then I realize she wants to wash my hands for me.  Again, I was being shown all the love this woman could offer.

 

It’s a weird place to be the one serving and be served by the people you are serving.  All I have to say is I have a lot to learn from these two women!  I want to offer all the love I can give to everyone I come in contact with here.

August

Grace, DP and I traveled to the city to meet my brother and sister in law for a mini vacation and truck shopping!

 

 

 

We stayed at a hotel where the kids could swim in a real pool

 

Thanks to the generosity of many of you we were able to purchase this truck! It will be shipped on a boat and arrive around the end of the month.

 

We flew back to PL and were happy for Caleb to finally meet his aunt and uncle.

 

 

A family dear to my heart ask Kevin and Amanda to be the Godparents of their 5 kids.

 

Kevin and Amanda visited the feeding program.

 

 

new pictures

I haven't posted any new pictures of the kids on here lately.

 

Here is the clan:

 

Grace 3 1/2 years old

 

 

 

Daniel Paul 21 months

 

 

Caleb 9 months

 

 

 

A lesson on being content

Today marks 5 full days with no propane (our only way to cook), 3 days with less than 6 hours of electricity (which have only been at night), a day without running water, and 2 kids with 103 fevers this week.

This morning I woke up to one baby who had an explosive diaper in his pack n play. I cleaned him up dragged the pack n play to my back porch where I could clean it later. I got my other baby up and gave him breakfast in his booster seat at the table where he had an explosive diaper. So it is now about 6:30 I have a chair, booster seat, and pack n play on the back porch all covered in poop. My sink is full of dishes. My laundry basket full of poop covered clothes and sheets.  The lack of electricity has caused all the food in the fridge to ruin and its adding to the smell so I throw everything out.

We still have a little water outside where we wash clothes. I clean up all the explosive diaper mess, wash clothes, dishes, and bathe my kids. About that time the electricity comes on and I am thinking oh today isn’t going to be so bad. I put on a movie for my kids and turn on the pump to fill the tank so we can have running water again. That lasted about 20 minutes before the electricity was off again.

I fed my kids lunch a piece of turkey, cheese, and crackers. With no way to cook there isn’t much more I can offer them but they enjoyed it.

Then off to naps on the concrete floor because it’s just too hot to sleep in a bed today.

Grace and Caleb woke up covered in sweat so I decided to bathe them again outside to cool them down.

I am sitting there watching them play in the little bucket replaying the day and wanting to complain when Grace gets a big smile on her face and says “Mom, I’m so happy” Out of the mouth of babes right? I had to stop right there and remember how blessed we really are. There are people who are my neighbors in this town who have never had running water, propane, or electricity in their lives. These very same people are the happiest people you will ever meet.

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.”- Helen Keller