Everyone Can Help
An early morning breakfast for the team from St Michaels and All Angels meant a long day of work. After the traditional breakfast meal of tortillas, beans, meat, and eggs the team loaded the bus to head off for the workday project in El Sauce, a local village outside of Comayagua.
The dirt roads and wandering horses quickly reminded everyone that they were far from the highways and interstates of Dallas, but when we arrived in the village the team was quickly greeted by the community, with curiosity. St Michaels would be painting the local Public Health Clinic, and it did not take long for the local community to come out and help. Children, adults, elderly, and pigs joined in the days work and by the end this vital center in El Sauce was refreshed with a new look and confidence.
In the evening the team made it down to the city center of Comayagua in time to see the end of mass at the cathedral and get some ice cream while enjoying the thunderstorm that was covering the mountains north of the valley. The question for the day was identity, and as the team finished up their first full day in Honduras we discussed the hardest culture for anyone to understand, their own. With this in mind the pilgrims from Saint Michaels and All Angels laid aside their own preconceptions and opened their hearts to Christ´s work in them through the Honduran community– a community they had learned where everyone can help.