Keep up

I honestly can't keep up.  Whether it is blogging...or anything else.  Spinning plates come to mind.  Let's try to catch up on a few things?

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How about an update on the new office building?  

This picture doesn't seem to show said building, but it does show how the clinic is out of space to store things with their expansion (four new exam rooms are being built)

With those new rooms, something had to give... this was the meeting area for pastoral meetings and Oscar's office is in the very back there. 

If we don't build this new building, we won't have a place to do pastoral and leadership training.  We are still working on the design of how the offices and conference area will work out, but it will take up the whole first floor!​

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We hired a new English teacher for the Milk Project, and with the influx of new sponsors, will be starting a new project in Cantarranas soon, and adding children to all of the projects, bringing our total up over 190!

We are hiring a new staff person for Tegucigalpa too, since Maria will be doing more and more supervising, Mauricio, to help day to day operations.

Construction in Cantarranas will take a while, but we will be working there to get started with the kids without the building being done.



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The coffee harvest is almost over, and the plants from the nursery are going to be ready to be planted soon.  

Time then to start work on more plants to take their place.  

It's hard work, and it will take years to see fruit from it, but the fruit of employment and help in the community is already there.

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Special services in Guayavillas recently, it is hard planting a new church, but pastor Javier is trying, with help of course.  

This was a Sunday evening service to invite other people from the community to check it out.

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And what else?  We are right now mid way through our second of three groups here this month, two medical brigades, and the group here now is high school students using their spring break to help (painting the MP building and new clinic in Las Botijas, helping with the Milk Project in Tegucigalpa, and doing two clothing days as well.)  

Channel 15, our TV station in Talanga is at a crossroads, praying what to do there, as it reaches thousands, but financially can't keep up with its needs and we will have to decide if God is calling us to go forward with that, or whether we need to literally pull the plug.  Currently, the main computer is failing.  

Otherwise...we are working on installing a lift for the clinic, some way to get patients up and down that have mobility issues.  We have a couple trucks in the shop still, the new Land Cruisers helping out tremendously!  And there is farm work brewing in Cantarranas with Luis, trying to get that off the ground slowly but surely.

I probably forgot several things...hard to keep up.  But we pray for God's direction, His guiding, His leading, His Holy Spirit...to keep us up, and keep everything going!