Today was a break from serving at a medical Serve Team site. While three of us stayed behind to organize optical supplies, the rest of us took the long ride out to Rancho Ebenezer which is the Children's Home run by World Gospel Outreach. It's a beautiful place near the little town of San Mattias west of Tegucigalpa.
WGO has been providing nurture, education and spiritual development to orphans and wards of the state for 25 years. The last three years during Covid have been even more challenging than usual for the staff and the kids, and they really seemed to enjoy having a Serve Team visit them once again.
Eight of our team members are WGOKids child sponsors and we each got to visit with the children we sponsor. It was great! Please check it out on the WGO website and consider sponsoring a child. It's a very rewarding experience and a very worthwhile cause. Another way to support the kids is to join the Coffee Club, which will bring you excellent coffee grown and roasted at Rancho Ebenezer.
On the way back to the Mission House we took time out to visit El Picacho, which is a park on the top of El Hatillo, the mountain that serves as the northern border of Tegucigalpa. To our surprise, the park was full of Christmas lighting displays and decorations. We walked through the park to see the replica Mayan ruin, the gardens and the always entertaining hall of mirrors. And, of course we saw the signature statue of Jesus that serves as the local landmark for the entire city. It was a great day!
By the way, $1,000 later we did get the new autorefractor out of Customs yesterday. Because of the generosity of all of our supporters we were able to cover the cost. WE THANK YOU, WGO thanks you, all the eye doctors who will use it thank you, and of course all the Hondurans that benefit from it thank you too.
As long as we are at it, we would like to thank each of the ten churches that sent people from their congregations to be a part of this team. Your support is so important and we do not take it for granted. Not only are the physical and spiritual needs of Hondurans being met, but North American believers are being impacted too. We will return to the USA as more useful workers in God's kingdom.
We are all feeling well and looking forward to closing out the week at our next medical Serve Team site. Keep praying for us!
RANCHO EBENEZER
