So as always, its been way too long since I've blogged... Since Christmas we've had Juliana's 2nd birthday party, Alumni Soccer Day at school, hosted the Knowledge Bowl for the bilingual schools in Honduras, inaugurated a new nursery at church, and today inaugurated a new futbolito court in the elementary school. All exciting news and I plan to write (or have been trying to get Kyle to write) a post about each in the next few days.
But for today, just some sad news. Last night there was a fire in one of the prisons in the country (about 2 1/2 hours from where we live). Apparently one of the inmates set fire to his bedding, yelling "We will all die here!". And because the guards couldn't find the keys, or as rumors have it, were ordered not to let the inmates out, about 350 are missing and assumed dead. Here http://news.yahoo.com/more-300-killed-honduras-prison-fire-134813093.html is a link to an article on yahoo, beneficial because 1. It's in English and 2. It has less graphic pictures than the Honduran newspapers. (Honduran newspapers don't censor any pictures--the more graphic the better). The article gives some pretty good insite into what Honduras is like. The poverty, conditions inside government run institutions, inability/unwillingness to make improvements, government stepping in after a major tragedy and saying things will change (but usually don't), and protests followed by tear gas.
Family Pic - June 2018
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Was the market fire as bad? I know that the loss of life is terrible. I posted about both on my facebook wall. We had committed to praying for Honduras several weeks ago and now wonder if this is why. We continue to pray. Especially for one missionary family (hehe) but the other missionaries also, and that God will put a hedge of protection around the school and churches that preach the Gospel, and that HE would shine HIS light on the corruption and that it will be brought to justice and changed.
We love you. And especially that funny little one. We think she is The BEST.
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