For the week of: Monday, April 2nd 2007

"Hands and Hearts for Honduras"

It’s time to go!  At 7:30 AM this Thursday morning, April 5, thirty-two of the most excited people you’d care to bump into will board an American flight to Miami and onto Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 

The “we” is no one church or organization.  We have men, women, and teens.  There will be novices as well as veterans.  Our ages range from thirteen to near-sixty.  We are a conglomeration of students, teachers, psychologists, factory workers, stay-at-home-moms, computer tech folks, building contractors, bank tellers, bank managers, business administrators, farmers, real estate reps, marketing managers, nurses, receptionists…and we vary in religious backgrounds. 

But we are all united on one important matter – we want to make a difference in the lives of the people of Honduras.  We are humbly offering our hands and hearts for Honduras and God will be glorified and we will be as blessed as we are a blessing.

We return very late the night of Sunday, April 15.  May I ask you to pray for our journey, especially the journey of our hearts?  If you would like to stay in touch with our daily adventures, please click on the “Links” tab and choose “Called and Compelled”.  This is the blog of our like-a-daughter, Jen Wright, who directs Casa de Esperanza, an orphanage in Tegucigalpa.  Jen is a gifted writer and you will be hugely blessed by reading her heart’s reflections and seeing the pictures of our daily experiences.

Often people ask me what we do there.  So I am including an itinerary here to give you an idea of our day-to-day plans.  You will notice that most nights we return to the Mission House by 8PM.  This is because it is dangerous for us to be up in the mountains after nightfall.

Thank you for your prayers…to God be the glory!

From One Captured Heart to Another,

Kay

Thursday, 4/5

7:30 AM – Fly out of Columbus

1:00 PM – Arrive in Honduras; Go through Customs,  eat lunch

2:30 PM – Head for the Mission House (This is the safe facility in the mountainous area above the capital city Of Tegucigalpa that we stay in at night.)

3:30 PM – Unload suitcases and settle in

5:00 PM – Orientation Meeting

5:30 PM – Dinner

6:30 PM – Assemble food bags for distribution next week (We will assemble approximately 400 food bags with coffee beans, salt, flour, pasta, beans and rice.  Each bag will feed a family of four for two weeks.)

8:00 PM – Devotional

Friday, 4/6

7:00 AM – Breakfast and Personal Devotional Time

8:00 AM – Pack back pack for the day (lunch, water bottle, etc.)

8:30 AM – Load bus and head to construction sites in San Miguel

                    Team 1 – House Site #1

                    Team 2 – House Site #2

                    Team 3 – Feeding Center

6 PM – Dinner at Mission House

8 PM – Devotional

Saturday, 4/7

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

7:45 AM – Pack back pack for day (lunch, water bottle, etc.)

8:00 AM – Load bus for Good Shepherd Children’s Home

11:30 AM – Load bus and head to Hospital Escuela

4:30 PM – Go downtown to the mall and dinner out

8:00 PM – Load bus to head to Mission House Prep Easter Eggs for Easter Egg Hunt at Didasko

Sunday, 4/8

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

(Pack a bag for 2 days/1 night – Didasko Children’s Home)

8:00 AM – Load bus to go to church

9:00 AM – Church at Los Pinos

12:00 PM – Stop at fast food for lunch

3:00 PM – Arrive Didasko for Easter Egg hunt and other fun; Begin painting of Children’s Home

8:00 PM – Campfire devotional with Jorge and Rosa

Monday, 4/9

8:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

9:00 AM – Work, work, work at Didasko Children’s Home and play with kiddos

4:00 PM – Head back to Mission House

6:00 PM – Dinner

8:00 PM – Devotional

Tuesday, 4/10

8:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

8:45 AM – Group Devotional

9:15 AM – Load bus for blind school

10:00 AM – Listen to the angels sing at the blind school

12:00 PM – Load bus for Casitas Kennedy (state-run orphanage – this is such a hard day for us.  The facility is horrible and it is hard to leave the children here, knowing the circumstances)

12:30 PM – Pizza Party at Casitas with the kiddo’s

5:00 PM – Dinner at fast food restaurant

6:00 PM – Head up the hill to the Jesus statue

6:30 PM – Devotional at the feet of Jesus

8:00 PM – Load bus for Mission House

Wednesday, 4/11

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

8:00 AM – Load bus for construction sites - Santa Ana

9:30 AM – Build, build, build houses

4:30 PM – Load up kiddo’s from Casa de Esperanza Childrens’ Home and head to Misison House

6:00 PM – Dinner

7:00 PM – Movie and popcorn with the children from Casa

9:00 PM – Short devotional

9:30 PM – “Adopt a child” for the night

Thursday, 4/12

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

8:00 AM – Load bus for the village of Santa Ana

9:30 AM – Prepare for VBS/giveaway day (we will spend hours today distributing food, clothes, shoes and the story of the love of God to hundreds of people in this community.)

11:00 AM – Have adult Bible study

1:00 PM -  Giveaway day and VBS with kiddo’s

4:00 PM – Clean up

5:00 PM – Head back to Mission House

6:30 PM – Dinner

8:00 PM – Devotional

Friday, 4/13

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

8:00 AM – Load bus for construction sites – Nuevo Oriental

9:00 AM – Build, build, build more houses

• We will also need some volunteers to help in the feeding center as well

6:30 PM – Dinner and devo at the Kluge’s home

Saturday, 4/14

7:00 AM – Breakfast and personal devotional time

8:00 AM – Gals head to Mi Esperanza

12:00 PM – Meet up with guys and head to Valley of the Angels

1:00 PM – Shop til you drop

4:00 PM – Need to load bus to head to dinner

5:00 PM – Dinner at Santa Lucia resort

7:00 PM – Devotional at Santa Lucia Cathedral

8:30 PM – Head back to Mission House

Sunday, 4/15

6:30 AM – Load luggage onto bus

7:00 AM – Breakfast at Mission House

7:30 AM – Head out for airport in San Pedro Sula

11:00 AM – Check in/eat lunch

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