Back of the truck

we got to ride in the back of Pastor Pinto´s truck. He is the leader of the p roject Manwalito.

Diffrent kind of ministry

This is the other ministry that Ade and i are working with It is called Project Manwalito. It is a project for kids off the streets. There are 2 huge h ouses where they have the kids who come in the program live. The one that we are working at is now empty because they are re araging things and getting it ready for more kids.
Some of the stuff that they do is ditoxicate children because it is very commen for street people to be on glue. So that is one of the firsts steps. The whole time that are showing the love of God to them and teacing them about the workd of God.
We are now Helping get ready for the new kids who will be coming in to the project by painting the walls. Ade is a great artest and i jsut help where i can but it is fun.
I painted the lion so far i am happy abou that. Not quite finished but getting there. I will keep posting the progress as we get further along in what we are doing.
Here is us we ar the ones who are working together and wow is it such a blessing to have her as a sister in Christ.

AFE

The girls just wanted to say HI or HOlA
These are 3 1st graders from the school Love, Faith and Hpe



Did your Class room look like this??

Below is what the Schoool looked like 2 years ago...
Or how about this??
Mine sure didn´t. Please pray for the children who are going to this school because they are believing that God will provide 60 more desks so everyone will be able to have a chair and not an up side down bucket.



This is the 2nd building. It was just finished 2 weeks ago because churches from the US came down and blessed the people of Honduras with this.





This is one of the ministries that I am working on 3 days a week in the morning. Adriane and I Tuesday-Thursday go out to this school to help teach.




How cute! :)








This is the school at the Dump, the name of it is Amor (Love), Fe (Faith) and Esparaza(hope). The school is made up of kids who at one time worked int the dump, live in the dump, parents work in the dump or just live close to it. The school was started because of a 5 year old girl. This girl was with her father one day and they were taking garbage to dump and she said daddy look at all these kids. We souled pray for them, so they did. The went over to them and prayed for a group of them.









On the way home the little girl was saying Dad you do ministry already, he is a preacher and did other homeless kind of stuff for the people around his community. He was said yes i should do something but really didn´t want to. She would beg him and bugg him about doing something and a few months later he called a friend of his up and began to tell him what he his daughter was bugging him about. His pastor friend was like well why haven´t you started it?? That next week he began making friendships with the people who work and live in the dump.


This is the school now in 2007, churches come down every year and help with building and paying for what they can. This is not what it always looked like but God moves Big and Praise the Lord that i now have an opportunity to bless the kids while being here in Honduras.

Just HI

Hey this is me just playing around in my room after before church. I was filled with so much Joy and had batteries in a camera and so this is what takes place hahah.
HI

When i got home from Church i was cold because we were having a cold front you know like 72 yeek. I didn´t know if i could handle that so i had to put on a jacket and hat.

The dress that i have on was a gift from my host mom, isn`t it cute?? Well i think it is anyways.

I had lots of time on my hand that day....is it obvious???

Me and my friend Marven

Hey Yall...................
This is Marven. Marven is a cool kid who lives in a place called The Mica Project. That project is a Home where boys from the street who have no home or who have run away from home can go and live. It is a Christian organization and it is amazing what God does with the guis from that home.
The day that we took these pictures was Marven´s birthday, he turned 18 Feb. 20 and we were just hanging out. Obviously we were very serious and not having any fun at all. Ha. No he is a really cool kid.

That day he was telling us about his life and what God has brought him through and how Amazing God is. He was living with his mom when he was born because his dad left her when she was pregnant to be with another woman. When he was young like 6 or so he had to live with his Father because his mom couldn't´t take care of him any more. His Father beat him and so did his step mother. For years he was living in this kind of abuse and couldn´t handle it any m ore so he ran away an found his mom. Still she couldn't take care of him so he found a house and was there for some time and ended up just a year ago this Feb in the Micah House. He has a very strong gift of evangelism and worship on his life. He writes music, sings and plays the g-tar. You can keep him in his prayers because God is still healing him but wow Look what the lord has done.

One of the girls on my team Lisa is working at the Micah house. She is teaching a 6th grader all of his classes right now...in Spanish.

Dump

This is the street I live on. the chick in the pict is Ade, she lives on my street too. Not quite what you all are used to seeing as a street but it´s home




















This is Jonnie, the man responsable for the Ministry in the dump. On the left is Tim one of our leaders of Step








this is from DEC. 17

Last Wednesday the five of us went to the dump to talk to the man in charge and to see the ministry of this man. His name is Jonny; he is a pastor and is an amazing man.

This is how the whole thing got started: Five years ago his daughter went with him to the dump to get rid of some medical trash from a mission team, and she said, “Hey, Dad! Look at these people! Can we pray with some of them?” So they did and on their way home she asked if he would start a ministry with the kids there. He said he would but then didn't. She would ask him every so often about starting something and eventually he said OK and did it.

He began going to the dump and becoming friends with families and eventually started teaching some of the kids under trees down the hill. Now there is a school of about 60 kids up to 6th grade. Every day he goes up into the dump and gives out water (clean water). They drink water out of a lake that people wash in, wash their clothes in, and whatever else you do in water. Then they drink that same water, so handing out clean water is a very effective ministry.I really liked doing it, but I am now sick and that's not good at all. Oh, the smell! It is overwhelming! I thought within the first minute I was going to throw up about five or six times. I have never been as grateful as I was once we left the dump because a lot of people don't leave--ever. That is their “normal”; they are born there and they die there, normally around the age of 20 because of all the disease and stuff.

The up date of December

Feliz Año Nuevo 2007

On November 10, 2006 a group of five girls (Kara Smucker, Carolyn McKalips, Ivana DuBose, Lisa Coss, and Adriane Horst) arrived in Honduras as the 06-07 STEP team for BIC. STEP is a short-term mission program run through the Brethren in Christ Church (Hermanos en Cristo).

For the first two days we all stayed en la casa de Tim and Lori Zimmerman, BIC Missionaries who are the directors of STEP. All we did there was sleep and eat, and sleep, and sleep and eat! But that soon changed because after church the first Sunday that we were here we were sent home with our host families from the church.

For some of us that was a poco scary, but no para mi. I was very excited about starting my life with a Honduran family.

My Family (Los Maldonados)

My family here is just that--my family. I am not just a guest in their house or an outsider. I am a part of the family, and I’ve felt that since the first day.
The members of my family are: Momma Tuta. She is a retired teacher of 32 años and is just like most retired people in the States--she usually stays busy. She is a cell group leader of some adults her age, and is thinking about helping begin a school at the church. Sounds like retirement--right?


Carlos, my only brother, who is 28, is a 4th grade

teacher

He’s the kind of teacher that all parents want their children to have…y por eso there is solo one 4th grade class in his school. This year he is also going to obtain his title of “Lawyer. “


Zully








Zully is my youngest sister. The day I came to live with them was her 15th birthday. She is in the 9th grade and attends the same school where Carlos teaches. She is becoming a leader in the church. Right now she is a Sunday school helper and a co-leader in a cell group.

Right before Navidad she got her hair and bangs cut and ever since then she has been loca--like just boosts of energy when no one else has any! But she’s cool.

Angela, my older sister, whom I’ve grown to love sooo much, is 26 and has one more year of classes before she graduates with her Masters in Human Resources. In her spare time she also runs a secondhand women’s clothing tienda out of our front patio with Momma Tuta.

Angela is a leader of a sector of cell groups and a Sunday school teacher. She used to be a part of the praise team, but not right now. But she does preach. You go girl!

Every Domingo after church we go to la casa of our grandparents and eat lunch with them--aunts, uncles and cousins. They have accepted me as a part of the family too. Gracias a Dios.

Over these past two months I’ve grown to really love my family and pray that some day they will have the chance to meet my family in the States.
The Church ( La Iglesia)

The church that we attend down here is a BIC church Hermanos en Cristo (Brothers in Christ). The pastor is Marcos and God has blessed him with a great church. We love being a part of the Latin Body of Christ. It’s so nice. There are four services cada Sunday at 9:00, 2:00, 4:00 y 6:00, and then on Tue. Wed. y Thurs. nights there are prayer meetings.

There is no established youth group that we are a part of but there are cell groups that I mentioned earlier. They are mostly designated by age so we are with youth every week, but not like we know it in the States.

this is the new church

A great difference that is evident because there is not a huge division between the adults and youth is that there are many young leaders highly respected. Down here age really doesn’t separate you from anything.

For the past four years they have been building a new church building that is big enough to hold all of the people in one service. We’ve had two services there and we are praying that the money will come in to finish it enough that we can begin having services there on regular basis while we are still in Honduras.


Clase de Español

For the past two months of our lives here we STEP chicas have been having Spanish class Mon.-Fri. (with most Wednesday mornings off) from 8-12:00 at Amanda’s home with Lilia and Karla coming every day to teach us español.

Amanda was Kara’s teacher, Lilia was Adriane y Carolyn’s teacher, and Karla was the teacher for Lisa and me. Today, January 5, was our last day and it was un poco sad because after spending that much time with the same people you get close. They have seen us on good and bad days and even after all that they still love us. They were like extended family to me and now I’m not sure the next time we will be able to see them.



FUN, FUN, FUN!

Things that we have been able to do for fun since we’ve been here are…

Pacto con Cristo (Covenant with Christ). That is a weekend of very intense ministry time with 100 people from the church that happens mas o menos every year.
God did some amazing things in our lives during that time. He humbled me big time while, on the last day, all of the leaders washed our feet, like Jesus did for His disciples. I understand Peter when he didn’t want Jesus to do that for him. It is the most uncomfortable thing that has happened to me yet. But God got me to a different level of understanding His Love for me.

Copan is a city in Honduras that is famous for the Maya Indian ruins. We had the opportunity to go there for two days, and WOW! was that nice. We ate so much food that by the end of that trip eating was a chore not a pleasure and definitely not a necessity.

NOW AND NEAR FUTURE

We are going to the campo (very rural area) for the next week to do four-day Vacation Bible School programs for the BIC churches there. Please pray for that. When I say rural I’m not kidding! The first place we are going to we have to walk for an hour before we get to the town because there is no road.

We are going to be leaving the country two days after we get back from that trip to renew our visas in Costa Rica. When we return we will begin working with the school for the children who live and work in the dump.
Message from Beth Wolsey: Pray for Ivana and her prayer requests, and get that financial help in the mail! If you want to contact her or look at more pictures try her
E-mail: Gods_gracious_gift@msn.com or Blog: http://www.gozoenhonduras.blogspot.com/.
Mail: Please follow these guidelines for sending packages to Honduras--padded envelopes work well or boxes no larger than ½ gallon orange juice container; letters and packages must be addressed to:
Tim & Lori Zimmerman
Ivana DuBose
Apartado 15005 CP 11105
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
Central America











PLEASE PRAY: The prayers the of righteous are highly effective

-Ade has been diagnosed as a pre-diabetic. She is 18 and not very happy about that.

-the ministry time we have in the campo

-that our Spanish will continue to improve

-that pride and jealousy do not have a place in the team

-that we can all prioritize our lives according to the Word of God…Him first!

-Tim and Lori are going through some things here and they also have a 3-yr.-old niece who has a brain tumor surrounding her brain.

-for safety

-that the relationships that we cultivate here are pleasing to God and that we are the women of God that we need to be

-that we don’t lose sight of why we are here--it’s not about boys or a vacation but to be the light of the world and to do good works so that our Father in heaven can get the glory.