After a day of great spiritual rest yesterday we are ready to go and play for a few hours today. So on the agenda for this day is shopping, horseback riding and a canopy tour. The latter is an adventure where you are hooked up to a zip line and careen across a cable, high above the treetops. We all ate our lunch in town at various places, giving us an adventure and the cooks a few hours off. The town was incredibly busy with people everywhere. Children hawking their baked goods at every corner and in between. The massive collection of unneutered and underfed dogs was in evidence at every turn. Not a cat in sight, just as in the D.R. and that is not a good sign.

Jim C. is here with us again from Alaska. He had asked us to keep it a surprise so that his brother Art who was flying in from Tennessee would not know. The meeting point was in Miami airport and was a great surprise. Art was just standing their talking to someone else when Jim walked up to him with a big smile on his face. The two brothers embraced and the reunion began, it was a very touching sight.

Julie P. has given 8 haircuts to our team and is planning on bringing her shears to the orphanage and offering to do as many haircuts as she can fit it. Dr.Bainam was one of recipients of the hair cutting so I guess we won’t be able to see him in braids again this year. Taylor H. has also benefited from Julie’s work and now she looks more like the movie star Lindsay Lohan than ever.

Kim B. and Amy B. came to my room this morning as happy as can be. She had just heard that the doctors have finally been able to diagnose her mom. So hopefully her mom will be feeling better soon as I happen to know for a fact that there is a heated pool with 2 life jackets waiting to be filled by 2 little Grammy’s to float around laughing for hours!

Kevin is looking for 2 or 3 cows to buy. A friend of his donated some money towards a Heifer project. That is where you buy a cow or 2 for some needy family. So, we will need to go cow shopping too.

Both Sue C. and Brian D. have been invited into a couple of homes for conversation. One family asked if they could meet and talk for awhile next Friday.

When we came back from shopping Rigo gave a very nice presentation on the Guanaja Berkshire School project. This is project that is very worthy of your donations, investment in a child’s education, especially a Christian education, never goes to waste.

The medical/dental/optical clinics will be moving tomorrow to a new community on the other side of town and we will minister to people there.

The little baby who was anointed yesterday is doing much better now, the fever broke last night. Dr. Price is still attending her. Another man was brought in last night and I think he has pneumonia too.

Our adult evangelism starts tomorrow night and we are really excited to see what miracles the Lord has in store for these people. It must be something tremendous in order for the devil to work so hard at messing up plans. You know the place for these meetings have been changed 3 times, and that is not including where we have it planned now. But we really feel that the Lord has had this place in His plans all along. Oh how wonderful and adventurous to be part of the soldiers of Christ! If you have never been on a mission trip and if at all possible, do so. You will be overwhelmed with the taste of victory in Christ. It is so sweet and fulfilling above any thing else you will ever experience. There is no thrill like the thrill of seeing the hand of God move and souls being saved and lives changed.

Tonight was our last youth meeting and it was attended by160 people and 3 more came forward. There were 9 people that came forward last night, I am not sure if I put it in right in the last letter.

As you pray for this mission I pray that you receive a double share of the blessing. May your sleep be sweet with angels singing songs of the love of our Saviour to you. Never give up, we are almost there!

He that has pity upon the poor lends to the Lord; and that which he has given will He pay him again. Prov. 19:17

Because He lives I smile on in Honduras,

Jennifer Young

Mission reporter