Robin

Hello everyone. I’m here today to share with you about my trip to Honduras this past summer. Honduras is below Mexico but above the continent of South America, so it’s reeaaaallly hot there. We went to Honduras to work with a group called Scripture Union. It’s really cool in Honduras because the Scripture Union workers are allowed to go and run Bible classes and programs in the schools, even the public ones. I thought that was amazing, since I attended a public school here in America and I understand how insane that would be here.

I learned a lot of stuff in Honduras, and I would love to share all of it with you, but I decided to choose just three things.

The first thing I learned in Honduras was that people truly can be happier with much, much less than we have here in America, and that we should be grateful for all of it. For example, here in Fellowship Hall our trashcans are as tall as my own waist, but in Honduras their trashcans wouldn’t even have reached my knee. This is because they very rarely throw things away. They had very few books and little paper, and all the posters on their walls were hand drawn by their teachers. When we would do crafts with the kids we used laminate paper, and obviously we didn’t need the extra waxy sheet of paper. Instead of throwing it away (as I know that I would do) most of the Honduran children folded it up neatly and either put it on a shelf in their classroom or tried to give it back to us. Several even asked me what we were going to do with that piece. The idea of throwing it away didn’t even occur to them. So today while doing your crafts, don’t waste anything!

The second thing I learned was that nothing is too small to be useful to God. While we were in Honduras we felt as though even though our numbers seemed huge (we visited about 17 schools and probably saw about three to four thousand children) we couldn’t really be making a difference because we didn’t really have time to build good relationships with any of the children. However, Jack “Hammer” Nelson, explained to our team that what we were doing showed the children that the “rich, white, North American” teenagers could come into their schools and show them a little bit of love. This does not sound like a big deal, but to Honduran children nothing could be bigger. Most Honduran children are raised to believe that white equals money and money equals worth more, therefore white people are worth more. By a whole team of white people getting on the same level as these children it showed them that maybe even God could get on their level and love them too.

The last thing I learned in Honduras was that Satan is actively trying to stop God’s people from completing God’s work. One day we had to drive for three hours in a van (without air conditioning) to visit a small village in the mountains. Scripture Union asked us to go and run our program in a school in this village because no Scripture Union workers had ever gone there, because the village is so far away from their headquarters. However, they figured that if we could start something there maybe it would be worth sending someone to live out there. Basically this was our most important school yet and we had to do everything right. On our way there one of the “new” Scripture Union vans hit a rut and ended up breaking the front axle. Luckily we were close enough to walk to the school from where we were, but getting home was going to be a big problem, as was getting anywhere else for quite a while. We went to the school anyway and ran our program in the morning and then again in the afternoon. The students, teachers, and administration were all very happy with us. At lunch after the morning program Chewy (Carroll Wynne) told us that Orlando (the director of Scripture Union) had a friend in the village that would fix our van for free, “for the glory of God.” This was an amazing miracle and testimony to the fact that God would not let Satan stop our work. The axle on the van broke right at the worst possible time; I don’t think that was a coincidence. God blesses us by letting us complete our program and now hopefully Scripture Union has sent a worker to continue his work in that school.

If any of you ever get the opportunity to go on a mission’s trip, you should go. It is a really fun experience and you will learn a lot for the Lord.