The beginning of another phase… (Andrea)

The past two weeks have been very busy for us. On Monday, January 28, Mike Holland, and Isaac and Liam Flag (Andy’s pastor and his son) arrived for a wonderful week of mutual encouragement and to start the ministry phase of our time here in Honduras. Starting on Tuesday we had devotions and lessons about evangelism, followed by a time of going out into one of the colonies in the city and going door to door doing spiritual interest surveys. This was a perfect opportunity to discern what people were interested in learning more about God and who was ready to explore spiritual matters while giving us the opportunity to invite people to cell group and church. Mike and Karen H had the wonderful opportunity to talk to a middle-age man, Henry, about the gospel. He was very receptive to what they had to share, and in the end he received Christ into his heart. Praise God!

This past week we traveled out to Villa Linda Miller, just outside of the city by the dump, to help translate for a group of dentists from the states. This was a really neat opportunity to use some of the Spanish that we’ve learned so far. Almost everyone on the team had the opportunity to translate for hygienists, and three of us were able to get our hands in people’s mouths as there was a need for some of the hygienists to have assistants. Some of us were also able to help out with the vacation Bible school that the dental brigade provided for the kids in the colony and we also had the responsibility to man the door to keep people who weren’t waiting in line out of the dentists’ office, along with the abundance of stray dogs that were everywhere. We also were able to have a few adventures on the public buses as the “Busito” (STEP van) broke down on Tuesday morning. We did some bus hopping, waiting for other busses and eventually just hopped in the back of a national’s pickup truck while another time we squished in the back of the dentists’ van.

This next week we will be heading out to Juticalpa to possibly do some vacation Bible school and more door to door evangelism.


Pastor Issac, Andrea, and some of the kids at the orphanage that Andrea worked with earlier in 2007.


The kids program up the hill from the clinic.


Andrea translating and assisting.


Tuesday morning in the back of a random pickup - good morning Andy, here's part of the adventure your looking for!


Get all the blood Karen.


Karen sharing a little about the clinic.


Sometimes, it was the hand holding and reassuring touches that meant the most.


The oral surgeon and dentists side of the clinic - each side had five "lawn chairs".



Yea, Joshua definitely squirted some people for fun.


Joshua getting that dirty mouth cleaned up a little.


Outside Andy really had a chance to connect with some of the kids and other helpers that came with a boys program.





Piñata craziness.

Way to go Andy, give that dental team something to do next year!


The dental team took us all out to dinner which was a real treat!