Lighthouse Team
A team of people who participate in the Lighthouse Church sponsorship program is currently on the ground in Honduras. Russell and Allen are working with the team, which is making the most of its time by completing multiple projects. Here’s the rundown:
Sister churches come up with their own pet projects and Lighthouse Church has chosen one of its focuses to be getting books in the classrooms of Crucitas. The church did a book drive to get age-appropriate, Spanish-language books for pleasure reading into each of the ten schools in the program. Members of this team realized that the schools don’t have a good place to store the books, so they are building bookcases to create mini-classroom libraries.
A lot of the men in this team are skilled electricians. Even though their church is connected to the Crucitas program, they are also doing wiring for the new(ish) church in Quelacasque. The building is already in use, but there are still things to be completed.
Some members of the team are putting up playground equipment at the smallest school in Crucitas. It’s a one room schoolhouse that will be needing an additional room or two in the not-so-distant future. But for now, the team is welding metal to erect a swingset and other things to help the kids burn off some energy.
Profile Views and Red Letter Days
Kelsea and Kirstin are updating and uploading profiles for sponsors at sister churches. This is taking up most of their time because there is a looming deadline. Two of the sister churches are planning sponsorship drives in the coming weeks and need to have profiles on each available child.
Where Does One Buy a Gold Shovel?
There has been a new groundbreaking ceremony on the Sowers’ property. Well, maybe there wasn’t a ceremony, but we should all chip in and get them a fancy gold shovel for next time. This breaking of ground was for a new house for Allen and Trish. No, not the new house that ended up being just right for Russell and Iris’s family. No, not the renovation of Russell and Iris’s old house that became Allen and Trish’s new house. This ground was broken for a new “new house.” Kelsea is currently living in town, due to a lack of housing on the property. Kirstin has a place on the property, but it’s barely sufficient. The plan is for Kirstin and Kelsea to move into Allen and Trish’s current new house, which was also Russell and Iris’s old house. (There were undoubtedly less complicated ways to convey that information, but it wouldn’t have been as much fun.)
Generally speaking, March, April, and May are the months when Allen and Russell can focus much of their attention on construction. Allen’s lofty goal is to complete the house in May 2022. While Trish admires his enthusiasm, she isn’t going to hold him to that goal and anticipates that it may take longer.
A team of people who participate in the Lighthouse Church sponsorship program is currently on the ground in Honduras. Russell and Allen are working with the team, which is making the most of its time by completing multiple projects. Here’s the rundown:
Sister churches come up with their own pet projects and Lighthouse Church has chosen one of its focuses to be getting books in the classrooms of Crucitas. The church did a book drive to get age-appropriate, Spanish-language books for pleasure reading into each of the ten schools in the program. Members of this team realized that the schools don’t have a good place to store the books, so they are building bookcases to create mini-classroom libraries.
A lot of the men in this team are skilled electricians. Even though their church is connected to the Crucitas program, they are also doing wiring for the new(ish) church in Quelacasque. The building is already in use, but there are still things to be completed.
Some members of the team are putting up playground equipment at the smallest school in Crucitas. It’s a one room schoolhouse that will be needing an additional room or two in the not-so-distant future. But for now, the team is welding metal to erect a swingset and other things to help the kids burn off some energy.
Profile Views and Red Letter Days
Kelsea and Kirstin are updating and uploading profiles for sponsors at sister churches. This is taking up most of their time because there is a looming deadline. Two of the sister churches are planning sponsorship drives in the coming weeks and need to have profiles on each available child.
Kim is working on the profile updates for Manna4Lempira at this time as well. They also got a huge batch of mail. The current team brought down the most recent letters from the Manna sponsors, which Kim and Jonathan will translate. The team will not be going home with extra luggage space because there is a big push to have children writing letters to their sponsors, as well - they will be taking back letters for one of the sister church programs.
Farm Life
Caffeine lovers, rejoice! The coffee harvest is complete and the final tally is a little over 50,000 pounds of coffee beans. The end of the harvest signals a new kind of work around the coffee farm. First, the guys chop around the trees with machetes to keep the weeds down. Then sprayers are filled with a combination of fertilizers, fungicides, and pesticides and the entire farm is sprayed to prepare for next year,
Wheels of Good Fortune
Motorcycle distribution time is back and it’s bigger than ever. This year, 35 pastors’ applications have been approved and their deposits have been received. Now, it’s just a matter of a lot of back and forth communication with the Honda dealer.
Farm Life
Caffeine lovers, rejoice! The coffee harvest is complete and the final tally is a little over 50,000 pounds of coffee beans. The end of the harvest signals a new kind of work around the coffee farm. First, the guys chop around the trees with machetes to keep the weeds down. Then sprayers are filled with a combination of fertilizers, fungicides, and pesticides and the entire farm is sprayed to prepare for next year,
Wheels of Good Fortune
Motorcycle distribution time is back and it’s bigger than ever. This year, 35 pastors’ applications have been approved and their deposits have been received. Now, it’s just a matter of a lot of back and forth communication with the Honda dealer.
Where Does One Buy a Gold Shovel?
There has been a new groundbreaking ceremony on the Sowers’ property. Well, maybe there wasn’t a ceremony, but we should all chip in and get them a fancy gold shovel for next time. This breaking of ground was for a new house for Allen and Trish. No, not the new house that ended up being just right for Russell and Iris’s family. No, not the renovation of Russell and Iris’s old house that became Allen and Trish’s new house. This ground was broken for a new “new house.” Kelsea is currently living in town, due to a lack of housing on the property. Kirstin has a place on the property, but it’s barely sufficient. The plan is for Kirstin and Kelsea to move into Allen and Trish’s current new house, which was also Russell and Iris’s old house. (There were undoubtedly less complicated ways to convey that information, but it wouldn’t have been as much fun.)
Generally speaking, March, April, and May are the months when Allen and Russell can focus much of their attention on construction. Allen’s lofty goal is to complete the house in May 2022. While Trish admires his enthusiasm, she isn’t going to hold him to that goal and anticipates that it may take longer.
-posted by Christi.
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