Day Four - August 11, 2006

We got to sleep in today! The bus didn't leave until 8:15am. After eating breakfast we headed to the Tabernacle of Life Church for outreach. We broke up into 7 groups and were joined by some of the church members of Catacamas. We canvassed the area around the church doing surveys and inviting children to the kid's crusade taking place in the morning. We passed out candy and flyers and the Hondurans helped us with the surveys. Once the word was out that the Americans had candy, the children came from everywhere. We went house to house and stopped trucks and bicycles all along the way. One group was allowed to go into a school and they were immediately swarmed by the children. In that stop alone there were at least 100 kids and we're going back this evening. Within a couple of hours we had invited hundreds of children and acquired 46 Bible studies for the Church of Catacamas to follow up on.



Lunch was interesting today to say the least. The menu was fresh Tilapia, real fresh. It was served to us with both head and tail still intact and if you wanted to eat you had to put up with the fish staring at you. Many fasted, but those who tried it, said it was delicious. Justin Lee ate an entire school of fish!





After lunch, we all wanted to hit the streets again, but it started raining. We ended up at the school where we will be conducting the crusade. The area we have rented is a open air Gym, that is a concrete floor with a tin roof and two soccer goals without nets. We decided to play a soccer game for country pride. After 30 minutes of running, the Hondurans were ahead 9 goals to 1. Shawna Buckley scored the only American goal and we immediately stopped the game satisfied that at least we weren't skunked! Bro Carr and Bro Levine needed CPR before getting on the bus.

Tonight we are climbing to the top of a mountain that overlooks the city. It has a large cross erected there and we are going to pray over the city of Catacamas and for tomorrow's crusade. The forecast is still calling for rain, but everyone voted to have the mountain top prayer meeting come rain or shine. We all believe something powerful is going to happen up there.

As you might have noticed it has not been easy getting internet access here, and we are sorry for the delayed information. We have found an internet cafe, but we can't always get connected. You thought dial up was bad, fall on your knees and thank God for it ~ you're blessed! We will get you more news as we are able.

Until Later
ERM