Last weekend, we took a trip to Danli, Honduras – sort of a mission trip within a mission trip. We went to get a chance to visit another Great Commission Latin America church and to help serve them.

On Friday, we made the 4 – 4½ drive to Danli, stopping in Tegucigalpa to hang out at the mall and eat at the food court. Our hotel Friday night proved to be a bit of an adventure. Our apartment complex in Choluteca is just outside the city, so the nights are really quiet. Our hotel Friday was in the middle of the city, which meant we had to try to sleep amidst the sound of traffic, a barking dog, crowing roosters and some really bad karaoke singing. We also saw enough cockroaches to keep some people on high alert.

On Saturday, we split up into two teams. One team worked on a construction project. A grandmother who attends the church lives in a small shack with 10 other people. She sleeps in a little room with a leaky roof. The past two months in Honduras have been the rainy season, which means it rains almost every day, and her sleeping conditions were not healthy. Miguel, a carpenter who goes to the church, helped us rip off the old tin roof and put on a new one.

While one team worked on construction, another team went out into the neighborhood to meet people living there, distribute some rice and talk with them about Jesus Christ. They got to talk to several people, and we went back later that night to pick up a few of them for church.

On Saturday night, we attended church and a church picnic Sunday afternoon before heading back to Choluteca. It was great meeting people in a sister church in Honduras, but we were glad to get back to home, sweet, home Choluteca .

In Christ,
Ed