Saturday, September 15, 2007

Prayer Request: updated to 10/23

Posted by kb at 07:18 PM

10/23/07 Prayer Request for our Group:
-Although Shelly had to miss on trip to Guatemala because whe was in the hospital with Denge, she is doing fine now. Praise God that she has such a good attitude and that she is feeling well!
-Denise missed all of last week and will miss all of this weeks classes as she has a skin infection. She also spent time in the hospital as she had to have surgery to remove the infection but is back at home now. She is still taking a lot of antibiotics that are affecting her stomach but is feeling much better. Praise God for her strength and optimism: the surgery was terribly painful and all of this is pretty awful but she still just keep saying how thankful she is that it is nothing worst.
-Kelly’s mom started Chemo- so prayers for her health- but also it is hard for Kelly to be away when she knows that her mom has been in the hospital, so prayers for Kelly as well.
-Jessie’s sister in law and new baby are doing well! Please pray for the mother and baby as well as for Jessie to be content here when she knows she is missing excitement at home.
- Melissa’s “mom” here in Honduras fell a few weeks ago; pray for a rapid recovery.
- JoAnna’s Honduran family is having lots of health problems: her “grandmother” fell and is on bed rest for a long period of time, her brother is having a hard time breathing and the doctors appointments and medicine are expensive, and her “mom” is sick
-Carissa’s dad is having trouble with his knees, also prayes for the rest of Carissa’s family to have safety in traveling as the come to visit this week
- Julie VS’s Honduran “brother” might have juvenile arthritis

Also there are always some general pray request for the group:
-Health:  many of us have experienced a day or two of stomach trouble and some colds and flus are being passed around
- That we would be a blessing to our families
-That we would continue to build a community amongst ourselves and with other students at the University (we now have Honduran conversation partners that we will meet with each week)
-That God would continue to teach us more about him, his world, our role in it: especially with respect to what we are learning in our development class
- Safety in our plannning and traveling during our upcoming vacation: many of us our going to Roatan
-Safety for our families and friends as the travel to Honduras to visit us
-Homework, too much to do, papers,and exam stress: that we would get our work done and do it well

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Week 3

Posted by KB at 05:03 PM

Our first week of actual classes was marked with a busy an overwhelming first day but very relaxing weekend. Many of us have very long days Monday and Wednesday (we don’t finish until 4:30 and some of us start at 8:00) and I think that many of us were overwhelmed especially the first day. Although we are getting to be very comfortable with hearing Spanish all the time, there is quite a difference between just a casual conversation or class with professors whose first language was English, and learning history and reading literature with many native speakers as professors. However, every day of class was a little easier and though we are swamped with homework, we are learning a lot. Also we made up for busy Monday and Wednesday’s with very relaxing, long weekends. Almost all of us traveled to vacation spots in Honduras and did little but relax, eat good food, and build relationships. Some went to the Island La Tigra and hung out at the beach, took small boats around the Island or hiked. Another group went to the largest lake in Honduras. It is fun to see the beauty of Honduras and spend time outside of the classroom with each other. Another exciting development of the week was that we now officially have a “Barnabas” leader for a group. Denise Britton, who had a tough decision deciding between doing Barnabas and coming to Honduras was nominated to be a spiritual leader for our group. We have organized a sort of chapel during our 9:30-10:00 break Monday’s and Wednesdays and Denise has been organizing people to give testimonies or devotionals as well as putting together some Spanish songs to sing and a pray list that she sends out to the group every week. I will also be posting our prayer request under the “Prayer Request” heading.  We have already accomplished our goal of encouraging one another to grow in our faith and it will be exciting to see what all God does with this little chapel time. Some of us relaxing at La Tigra.
A beautiful sunrise!

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Monday, September 03, 2007

Week 2

Posted by kb at 04:26 PM

This week wasn’t quite as exciting as last but we still learned a lot and had a lot of fun. We had class everyday- grammar, an introduction to poverty, and interviews with student and professors of the university. On Wednesday we had a field trip to the National Congress building. It was interesting that we didn’t have to go through any security to get in and wonderful Honduran hospitality was showed to us even in the Congress building; we were brought drinks and sat in the chairs of the representatives. Friday we finished our summer course with an exam. Besides class, we spent time planning trips during the week; many of us have just about every weekend for the rest of the semester booked with either a class trip or a small group excursion.
At the National Congress Building.
The whole group with one of the representatives who talked to us.

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