Friday, February 11, 2011

Honduras- Work Hard. Play Hard

On January 26-30, I had the privilege of representing Healing Place Church in Honduras. My mentor, Ms. Claudia Berry and I, visited the team of Healing Hands Global. It was incredible to see the work God was using them for in the village of Rio Viejo. We had the opportunity to come alongside the Williams and Youngers to help strategic plan for their 2011 ministry year.
God has given Ms. Claudia a gift of helping ministries to be more effective in their work through strategic thinking/planning. I was just along for the journey. It was inspiring to see that after three days of questions, discussions, goal setting, org charts, budgets, and job descriptions, this team had a vision and direction for 2011 that was Spirit led. It reminded me so much of the scripture "The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps." -Proverbs 16:9. We had come up with a great plan, but knew that only God would make this dream possible. He was guiding and directing our every conversation and we knew that as we surrendered the year to Him, His will would be done.

Working hard in the HHG headquarters

Please continue to keep the team of Healing Hands Global in your thoughts and prayer, and to learn more about the work they are doing in rural Honduras, you can check out their website.
From Left to right: Claudia, Wendy, Candy (visiting nurse), Colleen, Behind: Mark & Heather, Front: Rachel (daughter of Williams), and missionary friend of the Williams (Martin was taking the picture).

After much work and deep thinking, we felt it was time for some much needed fun. So our last day there was for Zip-lining. This was a bucket list item for Ms. Claudia, but I was happy I had done it just a few months earlier in Baton Rouge because to me, it was nothing short of terrifying. Once we got settled into the harnesses, it turned out to be incredibly fun. Below are some pictures of our fun in the rainforest.

Flying through the rainforest