I want to start this blog post off saying hello, it has been a while... it has been six months since I have sat down to write a post. You would think that with all the changes we have seen since March with COVID 19, I would have had a moment to do this but honestly, if anything, its been even busier for us around here at Casa Santuario lately. Let´s start in March. When schools closed here in Honduras, as they did in the US as well, we had to adapt and figure out a way to school the children from home. Living and working here at a children´s home, we have our own system of tutoring and helping the kids with their daily homework, but man it is a very big job to do ALL of the school work of 16 kids every day. Praise the Lord that most of the teachers who serve at our bilingual school are single missionaries and were able and willing to come and spend their free time doing the school work with our kids. THIS WAS A HUGE BLESSING! As of right now, our admistrative team consists of three people. The director, and two assistants (I am one of the assistants). There was no way we would be able to continue to do our daily tasks and do the schooling as well, but God already knew that and he had it all set up to help us, like he always does!
Since summer is now in full swing, I thought I would tell you of some of our cuarentena (spanish for quarentine) adventures. Almost as soon as the cuarentena started, some of our teens, with the help of the missionary kids who live here on site, made a make-shift volleyball court. They got sticks, made a net and even used sand to outline the court. They continued to play and teach all the young kids and even us adults how to play. We played water volleyball, volleyball with a soccer ball and even made up different rules, like kicking. You cant play a game with a ball in this country without being able to kick it, its just in their blood :) Another fun thing we did during Semana Santa (holy week), was create our own mini water park here on site. The normal tradition here is to go out and go swim or play in water. We normally spend the enitre week going on field trips to the local beaches, rivers, and even waterfalls... its one of the best weeks to be in Honduras. Since this year we had strict rules saying that we couldnt leave... we had to get creative. I came up with the silly idea to turn our playground into our version of a water park. This included a a waterslide, which was our green slide but with a hose hooked up to it so we could slide down even faster. It also included a sprinkler spraying up under our PVC pipe slide (if you havent seen one of these, you should look it up - they´re awesome.) We even made a slip-n-slid out of soap and a huge tarp. The kids spent the entire afternoon playing, dancing and just enjoying time together. I could not have imagined a better spent Semana Santa. Sadly, there have been lots of negative things that have happened since COVID 19. Currently if you look at the news you will see that the local hospitals here in Honduras are collapsing because they are overwhelmed with patients. People are dying and there is nothing they can do about it. The whole situation is sad and honestly, heartbreaking. However, I wanted to highlight some of the positive things that I have personally seen. We have seen our teenage children step up and look forward to helping out and filling up bags of food to be distributed to the local families who have little or no food. We have seem a new sense of community between the children, ourselves and the employees. We got to spend almost 8 weeks having our own version of Church services here on-site and it was a huge blessing, especially to me. My husband, Omar, led worship and our neighbor preached. I have seen people reach out and help others and I have seen a community come together and worship the Lord like never before. I know that things are bad, however I know our God is in control and he will rescue us. I rest in that and I pray that you can, too. I want to end this post just sharing with you my thanks. I know things have been hard financially for everyone. People have been without work and things are just hard. We are so thankful for those of you who work alongside us and support us financially. We would not be here if it were not for you. We want to thank you who are ernest in praying for us, we need them more than ever. Since the economy is down, we have seen a fall in our financial support as well. We expected this. We are asking for your prayers for our family for financial provision. We know God will provide. If you feel called to join us and work with us, there are three ways you can give. If you are able to give a financial donation for our family this, you can send via snail mail and qualify for a tax deduction to: Missions: Alissa Kearney (pay to the order of) Lemoyne Blvd. Baptist Church 15005 Lemoyne Blvd Biloxi, MS 39532 United States Or you can donate through PayPal to my sending church and also qualify for a tax deduction (this way does deduct 3% of your donation): Email: [email protected] You would need to specify "Missions fund: Alissa Kearney" Or you can donate to our personal PayPal here: email: akearney@bulldogs.mgccc.edu paypal.me/AlissaKearneyGomez Thank you again so much for all the love and support. We would not be able to be here if it was not for YOU.
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