It has been a busy October and November with four teams coming to Promise Home. These teams completed some of our large projects and started two new construction projects.
The first team was from the Heights Church in Richardson Texas. This is the third year that this team has been here in October. Each time, the team starts a new building with the rough out plumbing. This year the team installed the rough out plumbing for the new preschool/admin building and the Director’s home.
Since they were a plumbing team, they also installed all of the plumbing fixtures in the children’s casita. This is eleven toilets, nine showers, and eleven bathroom sinks.
For an offsite ministry, the team had a half day VBS for a school (1st-6th grade) in our area and installed two pilas for two poor families in our community.
The second team was also from the Heights Church. Since the plumbing was complete, the team worked on a punch list of things to do to complete the children’s casita.
The team also built 300 feet of security fence for our tilapia business. In Honduras everything has to be guarded or fenced in to keep it safe.
For their offsite ministry project, they installed two pilas. In Honduras, the poorest families will build a mud home just off of the highway between the highway and someone’s property.
If no one tears down the home, they will later build a better home. These people have nothing. They do their laundry, dishes and bath with the system shown below.
The Heights team installed a new pila to make their difficult life a little bit better. The project took about an hour and gave us a chance to minister to the family.
During the third week of October, Jim and Sandra Murphy led a new team from Koke Mill Church in Springfield, IL. The team was given the chance explore a wide range of ministry opportunities. Their primary focus at Promise Home was the remaining 500’of fence to enclose the tilapia farm. Although it was at the height of the rainy season, God provided an amazingly beautiful week.
They were also able to put the finishing touches on the first casita.
One morning, the team installed two pilas which they used as an opportunity to share the gospel and to pray with the people in the area.
The team also did a three day crusade with VBS, and planted a church in a small community between San Pedro Sula and Villa Nueva.
There were approximately 20 adults, mostly younger men, who received Christ during the revival. Then the following week another 4 people made the decision.
Our God is great! The third day ended with a food distribution of 1600 pounds of rice and beans.
In November, we had a team from Austin, Texas come for one week to install a bridge across a river that cut our village in half. The children have to cross the river to attend school, and family members have to cross the river just to visit. The Frisco Texas Sunrise Rotary provided the funds to build the bridge, and our friends from Austin volunteered to build it.
While the team was building the bridge, we watched a girl dressed for school fall into the water while trying to cross the river. We watched a young mother carrying her baby across the river in waist deep water.
Our friends in the village were anxious to help and provided most of the hard work, but we are most grateful to the small team from Austin that designed and provided the leadership to build the bridge.
To all of our many friends who have helped us this year we want to say thanks and to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Bill Hayden
