Blessing The Children - Honduras

One does not realize how much impact an event has until they read the responses. The last few weeks over Christmas I have been reading what the Lee students are writing about their trip they recently took to Honduras. The students made 300 hygiene packs filled with soap, shampoo, toothbrush, toothpaste, floss and a comb that we distributed on the Bordo. While giving them out, we distributed a flyer about the children’s crusade that we would be doing the next day. At least 250 children came and we had an awesome service where about 40 accepted Christ as their Savior.

After the service we gave 125 food baskets to the families of the church. This was a major blessing considering that many of them live on tortillas and beans most of the time. Many of these children are malnourished and infected with parasites and worms. Bloated bellies are a common sight on the Bordo considering that they have little food and the source for washing clothes, drinking water, bathing water and wastewater is all the same.

That evening we went to Hogar Esperanza, the Church of God orphanage, and Lee University had made gift packets for each child. These children were so blessed by these gifts and you could see it on each of their faces. You could also see it on the face of the director, Angie. She said later that she did not know what she was going to do for the kids for Christmas and was so thankful for the Lee team coming. On another day part of the team came back and painted the boys’ dorm rooms.

One of the most impacting moments was at Nueva Esperanza, the government-run orphanage. It is like a prison for children. There are about 160 children in the orphanage, and about 30 of them are babies. When I asked to go into the baby room they told us that they did not want us to pick up the babies. The reason for this is that there are only two workers and they do not have time to hold all the babies. When others hold the babies they cry for the rest of the day wanting to be held. It was a pitiful sight. They did not even have diapers or enough food, however we brought diapers and Orphan Helpers brought food that day. Also about 10 people from the group spent three hours in the baby room holding and loving on those precious children. We held a service with Orphan Helpers and gave gifts and food to the children. Men and women alike had tears flowing down their cheeks as they exited the orphanage.

The rest of our time was spent painting the outside of the Deaf Center and the School for the Bordo Children. We are working on establishing the school as an official project of the Church of God. We have plenty of children who want to come and we have a facility that will hold at least 140 children. However we need teachers and that requires funds, which the children do not have. Thanks to the group, we were able to give the school a facelift and for the 60 to 70 children that are already attending, they have hope and a nicer environment to learn.

Paul and Kim Dyar
Missionaries to Honduras
Project Number 0650812