Ever

Ever lives in Sampedrana and is in the Milk Project.  

Last week, in the midst of a lot of other stuff flying around me, I got a text from Marvin, forwarded from pastor Juan, sharing how the church had been praying for Ever and visiting his mother, who is catholic.  They were asking if there was a way to send more help.

It seems Ever's mom was going to make orange juice for them, and asked Ever to get some oranges.  He went out to climb the tree, fell, and broke both his arms.  

They were quick, because usually I hear those sort of things from the Milk Project staff...who as it turns out had also already been sending home cooked food for Ever with his brother, who is also in the Milk Project.  

Well, plans were soon made, and Consuelo (Milk Project director there) went down to Comayagua and bought a bunch of food to take to help the family.  Not only that, but she and Sulma went to deliver the food personally...an hour walk up the mountain (closer to the coffee farm)

It was cool to stop for a minute to just think...this is how it is supposed to work.  Church, Milk Project, thinking alike, helping out, and going above and beyond a job description, but being the church, praying for Ever in a time of great physical hurt and difficulty just going about his day, and for his mother, and his siblings for many weeks to come trying to help him.  

As I sat down to share this, I got curious about Ever's name.  It seems to be the Biblical name Eber (the letter H isn't always included at the beginning phonetically since in Spanish it isn't pronounced, and B or V are interchangeable in Spanish.)  He is a descendent of Shem, one of Noah's sons, and possibly/probably where the word Hebrew comes from.

And as soon as I found that, I was reminded of the message from the pastor in the group last week, shared at the 26th anniversary service in San Juancito, from the book of Hebrews:

  Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us