The unceasing rains started 10 days ago and have yet to dissipate!
Misting rain, drenching rain, steady rain, sporadic rain…I don’t think I have ever seen so much rain in all my life!
For me, this rain is an inconvenience. A nuisance.. A frustration! But it is not the devastation which it is for so many others.
Thousands of people across the southern region of Honduras are living these days out in shelters, their homes and communities in areas of risk or worse, already destroyed by the floods.
Shalom church is home to 40+ persons from our congregation who have needed to leave their homes.
It means communal cooking with everyone adding a helping hand.
It means living on a cement pad, covered by a tin roof, but open to the wind and rain.
It means sleeping side by side on the wooden platform with your brothers and sisters in Christ.
It means washing your clothes on a sidewalk-turned washboard-and stringing the clothes up around the sides of the church – with no real hope of them drying any time soon!
It means endless fellowship…whether you want it or not! It has been 5 days of waiting out the rains with no where to go! Our family spends hours at the church, just hanging out and being together. There is really not much else to do right now and it is much more pleasant to be bored together!
Madi sharing her bracelet making skills with a few interested learners.
Today I took paper and colored pencils and asked anyone interested to draw pictures of their life here in Honduras for me. I can’t wait to turn them into postcards and use them to write you in the near future! 
Above all I am impressed, but not surprised by, the amazing attitudes I see exhibited by one and all.
Could I be so positive if it were me living communally under a tin roof?
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