Pictures

Tristan is ready to ride a horse. I am trying to get more pictures on the blog of our past week but am having trouble getting them to download. Give me time and I will have more pictures to show. Have a great day!

Chad

Great Meeting

We just finished a great meeting with all the "Directors" of Mission Lazarus. It started at 8 am and ended at 11:30. There were 22 people present from all the areas of Mission Lazarus which covers a good portion of the southern portion of Honduras.

It was the first time for this type of meeting where we get everyone together to talk about what is going on in their area and how we can help each other. I thoroughly enjoyed the meeting. It was great to see everyone's face in one location sharing with one another.

It also reminded me how big this mission is and how much it has grown just in the last year. We have some great people working for the Lord here in Honduras. A big lesson I am learning is that there are great, Christian men and women all over the world who are not necesarily like me. We live in two different worlds but they are children of God just the same. We just need to give everyone a chance to introduce themself.

It makes the children's song "Jesus Loves the Little Children" come to light for me:

Jesus loves the little children,

All the children of the world,

Red, yellow, black and white,

Jesus loves the children of the world.

The question for all of us is, "What are we doing to develop a relationship with those who are not like us?" Let's step out of our comfort zones and get to know someone new...not like us!

Chad

A week with the men

We have had a great week with Mike Johnson, Ken Schauer and Justin Latimer who are from Maple Hill church in Lebanon, TN. I took them back to the airport yesterday after they have spent the week with us in our house working on the electricity in the cabins for our visitors. Tristan even made some new friends with them and did not know what to do without them there this morning.

Our groups are pretty much over and we have some "scouting" trips set up for the next month by those who are interested in working with us in the future. We will take time to show each of them around the Mission Lazarus projects. It has been an extremely fast paced summer. It really seems like yesterday it was June 1st and now it is the middle of August.

We are catching up on office work now and getting back to our regular routine if there is such a thing in Honduras. I know it is extremely hot in the States right now and I just want to let you know that we are officially cooler than there right now. I cannot say that many times through the year. Stay cool and keep praying for us and the mission here. Hope to hear from you soon.

Adios.
Chad

Pictures

A cute little girl on the island last Friday with her bag of new clothes.

A boat (canoe) full of interns going to the island.

The interns conducting a VBS at the island.

Baby hammer-head sharks.

Nohelia and Gabriella (two of our children) with their cute hairdues.

Is that Shelly hitting the pinata?