I headed out on a Saturday with a group of ten from Allen Baptist Church. We would be meeting up with four other team members from Allen Baptist and one from South Carolina that had already spent a week there. We would also be joined by three other women from Arkansas.
This is the team.
We arrived at Faith Home to this welcome.
The kids won our hearts immediately.
Faith Home is a Christian based center for children. It's basically an orphanage with some really good people who love these kids, taking care of them. This was our home for the week. Not only did we work with the kids at Faith Home but we would travel to neighboring villages.
Here we are having carnival type games with the children from one of the villages.
I loved the village experiences. I loved meeting the people and hearing their stories. I loved playing with the kids and seeing their faces light up with every piece of candy I gave them. And I hope that everyone walked away knowing a little bit of God's love.
But, my biggest love was being with the kids of Faith Home. Working and playing with the kids everyday changed my life. I only hope that I showed as much love to them as they showed to me. These kids were funny, smart, and very patient with my horrible Spanish speaking abilities.
Here I am with Elly and Ivan.
On Friday we visited a government ran orphanage. This is where my heart was shattered. I am a woman who has never been able to conceive. I thank God daily for giving me Tabor and letting me be a mother. But Tony and I always wanted more children and would have loved to have had a house full. So to see these children without a home, knowing the life I could give them was hard to deal with. I held a baby girl while watching the others interact with the other children, all the while my heart broke for them. And my heart broke for myself.
This trip was a trip of a lifetime, it was life changing. I can never look at my home and complain about closet space again. I can't look into a child's face and not think about all the children in Honduras who were thankful for just a small piece of candy. I sit on my back porch and thank God for blessing me with everything he has because I have never had to live like a lot of these people have. The things that are most important in my life are my Husband, my son, and the rest of my family, good friends and meals on the table. All the rest is just a bonus and I realize if they were all gone tomorrow I have been truly blessed with Love.
Honduras changed me, and I hope I changed it a little. I can't wait to return and be reunited with the children who kept a little bit of my heat with them when I left.
The Boss Lady
I will have other blogs about this trip. I will be back with different experiences as I relive them in my mind.
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