As many of you know, one of my roles here in Honduras is to start up our girls' ministry. Every Saturday afternoon, Dania, Fanny, and Jennifer will come out to the property to hang out, cook, have Bible studies, time on the internet, etc. and spend the night. Last Saturday night was our first meeting together and it was AMAZING!! We began with worship, prayer, and shared parts of our testimonies to get to know each other better. I can already sense that the Lord is going to bring a lot of truth and healing into these girls' lives and I can't wait to see the plans He has for them!
[hanging out before our meeting]
This week, we hope to buy three blankets and mats for the girls to sleep on. We will also be working on cleaning an area in the big building on the property so that we can have our own space to have our meetings and sleepovers. Eventually, we would love to get a TV and stereo to watch movies and have dance parties! We would also like to go on some kind of outing one Saturday each month--to the beach, park, museum, movies, etc. If you would like to help sponsor this ministry in any way, please let me know!
[Jennifer, Fanny, & Dania at our first meeting]
We also discussed many ideas with the girls for the future. They came up with a list of about 20 things that they would like to do. Nidia and I are going to put together a calendar so that the girls will know the plans for the following week. Some of their ideas include: exercise, go to the mall (shopping & movies), community projects (plant trees, trash clean-up, etc.), beauty night (paint nails, do hair, etc.). I love that the girls are so excited and have already begun to take ownership of this group and make it their own!
[with Fanny, Dania, Amalia, Sandra, & Nicole]
This Thursday, I will start meeting with the three younger girls (Amalia, Sandra, & Nicole) for about an hour at the church while the boys are having a discipleship meeting with Tony and Pastor Nicolas. I will be staying the night in Los Pinos every Wednesday night with Luis' family and will pick the girls up every Thursday morning to walk to the church. We will have a short Bible story/devotional time and we would like to provide the girls with a drink and snack every week ($1/person each Thursday). $15/month would fully support our young girls' ministry!! If you would like to help out financially, please let me know!
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Please pray that the Lord will continue to open up the girls' hearts to know Him more. Pray that they will desire a real, deep relationship with Him and that through that He will begin to transform their lives. Pray that they will begin to understand the true love of their Father, since none of them have a good earthly example of a father in their lives.
PURE AWESOMENESS!!!!!!
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