Honduras Day 1

            We made it!  We are all sad that Sarah Walinsky's illness is keeping 

her home.  Sarah, we are praying for you and we miss you like crazy!

            Here's what the Kingdom of Heaven looks like to St. Alban's 

missionaries:

            The home friends who turned out at 6 a.m. to see us off and get us to 

the airport.

            Safe and relatively uneventful travel -- OK, the airlines lost one 

bag, but it was someones clothes, not the medicine we are bringing for the 

clinic - $40,000 worth, thank you!.

            The drive through San Pedro Sula -  incredible beauty in land and 

people, poverty everywhere, but factories going up.  I asked one of our 

friends from OLR if this meant more jobs and money.  He rolled his eyes 

and said "Bastante"  (enough)  Meanwhile carts pulled by skinny horses 

compete for space with new vehicles...and with "vintage" vehicles kept 

running by wire, tape, and genius mechanics in little shack shops.  I 

can't help but imagine our friend Tirza at 3 years old left to wander 

these very streets.  Today she is a working college student, thanks to Our 

Little Roses.

            Getting off the bus and seeing Raquel beaming at Chet.

            Kay's reunion with Wendy, the girl she befriended three years ago.  

Wendy has been moving from a seriously wounded girl, in body and spirit, 

to a confident young lady.  How wonderful to see the change through 

Kay's eyes.

            Tom and Liz playing soccer (futbol) with the Roses - "Their foot 

skills are sick!"  Apparently that's good.

            Grayce's initiation into the close relationships we build in a hurry 

here - for her, it was many repetitions of a very speedy Spanish version 

of the Lord's prayer with tiny Maria Jose.  Lots of laughing...

            A group of little ones all in a pile on Mel to watch the rain - a 

relaxing end to a full day!