The People

Here are some of the sweet people we met...

This is Allison and Tamy...they were two of our 6 translators. So very sweet, they are in 11th grade and volunteered their free time to be with us!
This is Maria, mom of 7 kids. Last year Hope Coffee was able to add a kitchen to her very small, two bedroom house. She was such a happy woman, always smiling when I saw her.

This was one of the 2 classrooms at the school on the mountain. It housed 87 kids, grades 1-6 in 2 bulidings with 2 teachers!! Children here are only required to go to school to 6th grade. If they can afford a uniform, supplies and can get to the one public school in town they can continue in school. That said, many of the children go to school until 6th grade and that's it. Some stay home and watch their siblings so their moms/dads can work. Others work hard themselves to support their family. This is one of the many things that has been on my mind. Poverty is cyclical and it can't be broken without hope and a knowledge that there is something beyond this poverty, which is what they've known their whole lives.

This is Oscar, having lunch just outside the school. One day as I was chatting with his cousins and sister he snuck out of school to follow us to the Pulperia (snack shop)...his mom saw him and he reluctantly returned to school. We passed him a snack through the fence :)

During the school break (10-10:45) we gave everyone tatoos. It was fun, they were all animal tatoos. The kids would pick an animal and then tell us how to say it in Espanol, it was fun!

Beautiful huh? Kids are gathering around during the break...not sure what Andrea is handing out!

We had VBS each day from 2-4. It was nothing fancy like you see here in Katy - just worship, stories, songs and games and the kids LOVED it. It was refreshing to do things simply, things don't have to be big to do BIG things, know what I mean?

This was our travel team. Mark, Michelle, Micah, Ariana and Malachi are just tot he left of us. They live there on the seminary grounds (so pretty!) and run Hope Coffee, minister with and to the local Honduran people. They're doing an awesome job and we're so pleased to be a part of it all!