September already. We’re sure you are all in “Back to School”
mode or at least wrapping up summer and looking forward to fall. Life is different here. The school year runs from February to
December, we’re still in school mode and there never is fall here. We’ll continue with hot/dry days and cooler
rainy evenings until December when it starts to rain all the time. Please enjoy the beauty of the four seasons
back home for us. This Sept. 15th
will mark one year since we arrived in Honduras. We moved out of our apartment in Centerville,
OH in July, 2011, spent two months with family, and then moved here in
September. We began construction on our
home in Feb. 2012 and moved into Las Lomitas March 25th. As all of you know our commitment was for one
year. That will be coming up in just a
week. We wanted to give it a trial run
to see whether we thought this was the place God has for us. O we of little faith.
We never want to pretend we know
for a second what tomorrow may bring, so we truly try to live one day at a time
and do what God has placed in our laps and in our paths that day. At the same time people have started to ask
the “big” question, “So how long are you guys going to stay down there?” The answer is we really don’t know and we
will continue to take life as it comes and God leads. For now, we have planned to stay until the
end of Nov. this year when we will come to the States to spend Thanksgiving and
Christmas with family and friends. We
will then come back to our humble abode in Las Lomitas and finish a full year
living in Las Lomitas, which will be until end of March 2013. We feel called to at least complete a full
year living and working in the community to be able to see if we’ll be here
longer. Please be in prayer for us as
we are in serious prayer about our future and “where” God wants that to
be. To be honest, we love it here and it
feels like home, in addition, we’re seeing the community take huge strides
towards development. We feel like we’re
doing what we were made to do and living in a way we were made to live.
Yes, it is hard every day in more
ways than one and sometimes we don’t know if we can make it another day. Without a washing machine, dryer, dishwasher,
microwave, refrigerator, power tools, electric outlets and everything you plug
into them, etc. daily life can be rough.
Sure, we’d prefer to live in a house with smooth, painted walls, sofas,
chairs, carpet, and tile. But are those
things really necessities? We’d
challenge you to answer that question as well.
We make up for this knowing that
we have the best jobs in the world and based on how God made us we are in a
place where we are most effect for His Kingdom.
Is that not truly the ONE necessity?
So as you are “back to school” or “fall clothes” shopping, challenge
yourself and your family with the question of “what truly is necessary?” Could you go against our culture and downsize
or simplify to bring God glory? Could
you make the sacrifice to truly get into the job/place that God made you
for? Do you even know what that is? Maybe start praying for God to place you
where you can be most effective for Him, because none of us really know “the
day or the hour” when this life as we know it will be over.
We are assembling a “one year in
review” letter that we will be mailing out.
If you have never received anything in the mail from us and would like
to, please email us your address and we’ll make sure you receive it. There are some of you who are donors and we
don’t have you on our mailing list, please let us know who you are.
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