We send you our warm greetings from our rural ministry homestead in Honduras. Below is a variety of photos we’ve taken in our daily academic and discipleship activities in the family-oriented community homeschool we operate out of our home, the Living Waters Ranch.
At the end of the photos there is a brief prayer request for those who might lift us up before the Lord in prayer during this time. God bless you all, and we give our sincere thanks to those who financially support and/or pray for us and those whom we care for. To God be the glory in all.
My husband Darwin’s P.E. class with the older teen boys in our schoolA couple of our students on a 2-mile jog down to the main highway and back to our rural propertyGroup Bible study on a creative outfit day in which all of our students were invited to come to school dressed with attire from biblical timesOne of our beloved local missionary-teachers and two of our foster kids on biblical-attire dayThis local student of ours surely had to cross some Arabian desert in order to get to school on biblical-attire day! (Too precious!)A couple months ago my husband, our foster children and I planted several flowers around our rural property, and they are beginning to bloom.A photo my husband took of his sixth-grade class on a Saturday educational outing into the city of La CeibaThe same sixth-grade group visiting the beachOur boys on silly hat dayOur girls on silly hat dayThe following are photos taken in math class on silly hat day…
Book report presentation
A group of our students rehearsing in a local church before their big choir presentation in San Pedro Sula, the second-largest city in Honduras which is about a 3-hour drive from our town
Official rehearsal with the choir director and several other national choir groupsFinal presentationMy husband, who serves as the choir director at the Living Waters Ranch, congratulating the man who directed the overall event in San Pedro SulaOne of our highly dedicated local missionary-teachers with a group of our students at the choir eventMy husband Darwin posing with the local woman who donated lunch for the eventPlaying in the rain: one of the precious local youth in our discipleship-based community homeschool who was recently baptized and is now walking with the LordA group of our teens (two of our foster daughters and a handful of local students) in our front lawn after classes let out for the dayThree of our local boys playing soccer in front of our home during recessA favorite pasttime of Honduran youth: picking mangos during mango seasonA group of our students beneath one of our mango trees looking for fruitSomebody found a ripe mango!Exam time for a group of our high school studentsOutdoor music lessons with my husbandGod’s creation right next to our front porch
Prayer Request:
Without going into too many details, I will share that our home with our 7 foster children/teens ages 12-18 is currently going through a couple very painful upheavals/trials, and there are likely to be some big changes around the corner for our family in the coming weeks. Fostering/adopting young people who come from very dysfunctional backgrounds is not easy, and our relationship with a couple of our older girls is reaching a very precarious state as they are making very poor/dangerous decisions and refuse to submit to our authority, seek the Lord on the matter, or take our advice. Please pray that the Lord might grant all of us (my husband, myself and our children) peace during this volatile time, and that the Lord would take control of any and all changes that need to take place in order to assure the safety, wellbeing and spiritual growth of those in our household for God’s glory. Thank you for praying for us.
The photos are so fun, clever, beautiful and inspiring!!! Thank you for sharing them!!! We will definitely keep you and Darwin and the children in prayer during this uncertain time, as always. We love all of you and just want the best for you! God’s got this!!!
The photos are so fun, clever, beautiful and inspiring!!! Thank you for sharing them!!! We will definitely keep you and Darwin and the children in prayer during this uncertain time, as always. We love all of you and just want the best for you! God’s got this!!!
We are praying for you, dear ones in Christ. God will prevail.
“La Gloria de Dios”.