A kitchen, a sleepover, and some food.

This week we have been working at the church getting ready to build a kitchen. There is a space next the church about 12 feet by 50 feet that we are going to use. Will is in charge of this project and although his work crew has consisted of 3 girls, 2 teenagers that don´t speak English, and about 15 little kids, it is coming along.

One day after working on the kitchen in Mogote we decided to take some kids home with us. Will, Amber, Jenn, Darwin, me, and 11 kids, loaded up the truck and went to our house, dropped our tools off and then headed for the theatre so see the movie Bolt. After the movie we went to KFC for dinner and played at the play place. Then we headed back to our house and settled down for bed and gave everyone showers in warm water (which does not exist in Mogote), and finally went to sleep, the boys in our room, the girls in Jenn´s room. Then in the morning we ate some eggs and Will´s famous cinnamin toast, colored pictures, and played with Ranger. It was really fun to have them all over and we´d like to do this more often with more kids.

Amber and Darwin have been wanting to go downtown and visit some people there that live basically live in the street. So, last night we headed downtown by the stadium to feed some people. Amber and Darwin cooked all day and made 10 pounds of beans and 5 pounds of rice, got some tortillas and mixed some lemonade and we loaded up in the truck not really knowing what to expect. It´s hard for me to put in words this experience, it wasn´t what I expected but it was really good. I expected people to rush and crowd around wanting food, but it wasn´t like that, they came a few at a time and chatted with us a bit. An older man named Pedro asked us to pray for him. Another teenager named Noe started to sing a song we sing in church here, "you have a friend that loves you, his name is Jesus."

The place where we were at, right next to the stadium is a place where the Jesus statue that shines bright over the Tegucigalpa night can be seen very clearly. It looked as if Jesus was holding his arms up right towards us, shining brightly. How appropriate. Jesus does stand with open arms towards all of us, no matter where we are in life, if we live on the street, if we live in a mansion, Jesus is always there with open and accepting arms.

This probably isn´t something we will ever take pictures of to show you, but we ask that you do please pray for the people that live on the street by the stadium. Pray that they can break free of their addictions, that they have food, and most of all that they run to Jesus who accepts them with open arms.