Stick around

Another missionary reminded us today that the last flights that were arranged to take US citizens to the States left today.  Those that remain, are here for the long haul, no one is exactly sure when you will be allowed to leave again.  

I don't think it was a particularly spiritually powerful time for us, but evacuating was not really even a decision.  

We were originally scheduled to attend an optometry conference and were supposed to leave tomorrow for the US for three weeks.  When that trip was no longer possible, and when we switched gears seeing the great need developing to get food out to people with no reserves, backup, or money to buy anything, or way to leave to work (we have been on lockdown since March 15), I saw the posts talking of specially arranged evacuation flights, but I did not even give it a second thought.  

Like I said, we just knew to stay.  It did not even come up talking as a family.  We knew people were leaving, lots of people, but I never once heard any of us even consider or ask if we should.  

We didn't have a plan for something like this COVID19 situation.  Then again, it doesn't seem like many did.  The clinic stays open, although with some extreme precautions, and the Milk Project really got us started with food distributions via them switching gears to try to still help the kids then stuck at home.  

We raised $9,000 for food distributions in less than a week...a humbling, astonishing really, figure that has put us on a fast track to use this opportunity to encourage and help people in our Churches around Honduras, in seven different cities, and both Milk Projects.  

The staff has really come together...even though we are mostly apart, to make this possible, and worked very hard, in very difficult conditions to do all this.  

And we aren't done.  We are meeting tomorrow to see how we can do even more with those funds, and in even bigger ways, to help more over the coming weeks.  We are learning and growing as we do this.  We have already distributed over 4500 pounds of food, and are looking to more than double that in the next week.  

So, let's stick around, and watch God work in great ways none of us would have imagined a month ago.

It has already been quite a thing of beauty to behold, and in times like these...those seem to be in short supply.  Sometimes though, it is just hard to stop and look, and not look at the news or the troubles around us and see...God is working all the time and has things for us to join with Him. 

If you want to help from afar...check out the donate page on this website....just look up and to the right.  Or click here and you can designate what area of the mission you want to support, including "food" which is definitely in short, or in many cases NO supply, for the vast majority of Hondurans.   
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