Team Day 7 - January 2

Today was a build day. Typically we build houses that are pretty basic one room structures with one door and one or two windows. That is the layout we know and the layout that we have to supplies to do. Today however a small church in a village asked us to come build one of those houses to use as their church building. Size wise the new building would be a bit smaller than what they had but after we got there to see it we understood why they wanted it regardless.


First we attended their church services that morning and one of the girls from the team, Rachel Tharnish, translated for us. I am continually amazed at the faith and passion some of the people here have in God. Seeing the people and children of that village in church that morning definitely reminded me of that once agin!



After the service was over it was time to get to work! First came demo time! I have to admit, it was pretty fun getting to take a hammer and pound down some walls! Thankfully though some of the Honduran men in the village took on the task of the roof! One of the men came falling down along with the roof! (yes, he was ok and was up working again after about 5 minutes.. those Hondurans amaze me!)
Then it was time to dig some holes and get building. With as big of a team as we had it seemed to be go pretty fast once all the demolition stuff was done. Typically with a group this size we'll split into 2 teams to build so it was nice to be able to have enough people to keep switching in and out. Plus.. getting to play with the kids in the villages is always one of my most favorite parts about building!



This is very rare to see in Honduras so I just had to get a picture of it. Three Honduras men holding their babies! Love this!


After the build we all loaded up on the bus to head out and David's car wouldn't start. So, they pushed it up a hill to get it jumped coming back down in reverse! This is Honduras!



We then headed straight to Amber's building to have church with the homeless there led by Amber's son Darwin. I have never been to a service with pimps, prostitutes, drunks and drug addicts. That's what this service was. And I firmly believe that that's where Jesus would be. I pray that God will continually work through Amber and Darwin to reach these people!