Today we souvenir shopping in a place called "Valley of Angels." It was a very interesting area with many things to do and see, including a mime. Some of the women on our trip were even encouraged to get up and dance with the mimes. Needless to say, they declined. In addition, we attended a service at a church in Tegucigulpa, and what a blessing it was to us! The Hondurans worship with such passion and verve for God. A dance team of younger girls put on a show for us, dancing to music and worshiping God with everything. It's always funny to look at the "Gringos", as the Hondurans and Rich likes to call us, and see how much they keep to themselves when they worship. Our cultures are so different, yet it is amazing that we are united through Christ, the head of the body. We worship the same God, and we are all part of the body of Christ. That illustration speaks to me, especially as a medical professional. Not one part of the human body is unimportant, even the appendix! To God, he sees all of us as equally vital, equally loved, equally unique.
Speaking of love, yesterday I wrote how we hope to bring God's love to the Hondurans and show them that love through our actions and words. Today, I was further reminded of God's love. There is a song that goes, "How deep the Father's love for us. How vast beyond all measure that He would give his only Son to make a wretch his treasure." It's difficult to imagine a father or a mother giving up the their child's life for anyone let alone a sinful, wretched world, yet God chose to send his beloved son for us so that we could be called His sons and daughters. We cannot fully comprehend that love, but we can rest assured in it. We can have peace and hope and self-worth because of it. God's love is a game-changer. It can turn the alcoholic into a devoted father, the drug addict into a advocate for people in a similar situation, it can turn an atheist into martyr for the Gospel. As I said yesterday, it is our hope that the Hondurans experience God's love for themselves, but we also hope that you and, as well as ourselves experience it. Nothing we could every do, say, or think could make God love us less or more. For Paul writes in Romans 8:38-39, "And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord." Have peace in these words. You are free in God's love through his Son.
Pray Requests:
Pray for our 1st Brigade tomorrow
Pray that we show Jesus to the Hondurans as we treat them medically and as we interact with them
Pray for continued good health and safety
Pray for continued team unity - let there be no dissention among followers of Christ
Pray for the staff here at GWO that God would fill them with wisdom and grace; pray that God will bless them
Pray for Rich and Craig, our fearless leaders that God will lead them to lead us
Pray for Olga, a mother of 10 who we are putting in a concrete floor for her, that God will touch her life and the lives of her children
Tomorrow: 1st day of Brigade!!
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