OUR VIEW FROM HERE...

View of the hospital from our back porch...


How we get around...

Our temporary apartment...






















One of the Honduran children in our Sunday School class in the pueblo of Margarita.

BALANCING IT ALL...

Like any other time or place we've been in, the struggle is balancing it all... home schooling, work at the hospital, ministry opportunities, visiting with other people. Ministry opportunities that have presented themselves thus far include: teaching and training of local midwives (Margo), assisting with pastor training classes on weekends (Nelson), Sunday School at one of the local churches (Nelson and Margo), and the Dental Dog Hygiene program in local schools (Kristyn and Shelby). We greatly appreciate your prayers as we seek to focus and be intentional about the ministry God has for us here in Balfate. The needs are many, and we're praying for wisdom to know where to put our focus.

HASTA LUEGO, KRISTYN...

Goodbye for now...

As many of you have heard, Kristyn will be attending a discipleship training program through RAD (Radical Action Disciples) Ministries out of Gainesville, Georgia. She heard about the opportunity via another young woman who's been here in Balfate with her family for about 7 years. We all went to the airport to drop Kristyn off and say goodbye on October 3rd. She begins the program on October 15th. Another big chapter in all of our lives begins...

We're very excited for her and covet your prayers as she seeks the Lord's will for her life!

MOVE'N ON...

After the graduation ceremony on August 18th at the Spanish Language Institute in Costa Rica, we were ready to move on to our final destination... Balfate, Honduras. Needless to say, the goodbyes were difficult. Many of our fellow students, missionaries, and members of our church had become like family to us over the past year.

A good-sized step of faith for us (though maybe not for others who might be adventurous!) was taking a bus from San Jose, Costa Rica to San Pedro Sula, Honduras. There were several reasons why we decided to travel by bus instead of by air, but one of the main ones was due to the amount of luggage we had and the costs involved in air transport. We left Costa Rica on August 23rd and arrived here in Balfate, Honduras on August 25th. We saw God's hand throughout our trip as different people helped us with border crossings, transporting, and looking after our extra luggage, and with overnight accomodations. It was really an amazing opportunity to see much of Central America...ask us about it sometime!