Prayer Requests

Yesterday was a day full of discovering people's needs.

A lady that lives here in Santa Ana came to the gate asking us to take four of her children. IHNFA, the agency similar to DHS, CPS, etc., will not allow us to take children from the community. They place children in a town different from where the parent lives. The reason this lady wants us to take her chilren is she has a new boyfriend and he doesn't want to have to feed so many kids. She is willing to give up four of her six kids. Of course, she and two of her kids get fed. And hopefully, the other four will be placed in a home like Casa de Esperanza. I wish this was an isolated case, but things like this happen all the time. I don't understand being willing to give up my kids. But, I don't understand not being able to feed them either.

Everything has to be done through IHNFA, but Marc did get on the phone and, we think, find placement for the younger two chilren. The mother and the six kids need a lot of prayer as these transitions are taking place.

A lady in our church, Carmen, called Dorian yesterday afternoon late. Her eighteen year old niece was in an accident a couple of weeks ago. This young woman is about to lose her leg. An attempt to save the leg may be possible, but the family does not have the money that is needed. Marc plans on going to Hospital Escuela today to assess the situation. Pray not only that we can find a way to help, but this young lady's leg will be saved.

As so many are impoverished in Honduras, we often see little villages that are squatter villages. People just claim a piece of land and build a house out of anything and everything they can find. Sticks, plastic, scrap wood. Our lawnmowers live in better houses. Sometimes, the landowner does not want these people on his land. And, that is his right. The supreme court ruled in favor of one landowner in Comayaguela.

The only thing that distinguishes Tegucigalpa from Comayaguela is the river. It is a rough area and thousands live in squatter villages, if they have any kind of house at all. We have built houses in Comayaguela and have seen awful conditions. Without any kind of notice to the people living in the homes in this particular squatter village, after the court ruled in the landowner's favor, he hired a bulldozer and leveled everything on his land, leaving three hundred families, who had very little, with nothing. Please pray these people find some kind of shelter soon.

Also, please pray that we have the wisdom to deal with each situation.

Terri