A Lord's Day in Hondo

Honduras. Day 5.

Today was... quite a day.

We went to church in Villa Nueva Sector Ocho, which is a little bit of a “rougher” suburb of Teguc. But before we went to the church, all the AIMers and interns went and met up with the first TORCH group of the summer. They all seemed really nice, and we had a fun trip to the church building on the bus, laughing and telling stories and just getting to know one another.

From what I understood of it, church service was very good today. I’m pretty sure that the first sermon was about Matthew 25 and the ten bridesmaids and their lamps. But there were two other sermons, and I had no idea what they were about. Anyways, I loved listening to the singing. And then, after church, we all went outside and played with the kids in the community. Even in the slums of the slums, there were children there that were just happy and kind and sweet in every way. One boy that I met today, named Ala, was a ten-year-old Honduran living with Downs’ Syndrome. But even through the language barrier and the limits of being able to communicate because of the slurring that the disease did to his speech, I saw Christ in Ala today. I saw Christ in Ala because he was a boy that was enduring his struggles and still had so much energy and love to give.

We went and had lunch at the Campero’s, Church’s, and Little Caesar’s area today. Afterwards, we took the TORCH group to Valley of Angels to souvenir shop. Some of the TORCHers walked around with our group of interns and AIMers (Karis, Steve, and me), and they were cool and we let them shop. But we were pretty content to just drink smoothies and sit in hammocks all day (I have a feeling we’ll be back at Valley of Angels a LOT this summer). In one shop, the two owners were so kind to Karis and me and they even gave us free key chains as we left. As if we needed key chains, and they didn’t need money. But they gave them for free because they had so much love to give.

Even when love comes in the form of a free keychain.

After Valley of Angels we went to Santa Lucia to eat supper (and it was AMAZING). And then we headed over to the Catholic Church for devo. It’s a pretty cool building, I guess. Built in 1530, oldest church building in the Western Hemisphere. Blah Blah. For us, it was just another spot on God’s earth to pause and worship Him. And that was pretty cool.

Ah... Another day in the life.