Well, we're here! It's 8.30pm on Saturday evening and we finished our evening meal not long ago. We're staying in the Mission Guest House in Tegucigalpa, which is run by the World Gospel Mission. Our hosts have been wonderful and we're getting to meet all sorts of great people.
Today we've spent at the transition home for the Manuelito Project.This is where children who have come off the streets spend time before, hopefully, moving onto the main home in Talanga. Some of the children have come directly a kind of youth prison into which the police have put them, having removed them forcibly from the streets.
The home is an amazing place, run by people who deeply care for the children. We spent the morning going into the city centre with them, where they needed to buy some wool to make friendship bracelets, which they sell to raise money. We all had an ice cream in the main square.
After lunch we spent quite a bit of time going around the city in a minibus trying to find a spare football pitch. Eventually we managed to get one and had a massive game of football. Mark played (kind of!) while Rosalie watched (in the shade - she's not stupid!). More ice creams, then back to the home where Duncan gave his testimony and we prayed for the children.
The home is a very necessary place for the work here and needs lots of resources: for example, the water was off for a long time, which is a frequent occurence in the city, and it would be great for the home to have its own water tank, but that costs money.
Tomorrow we're going to Pastor Pinto's church where Mark will be preaching at both morning services. In the afternoon... well, we'll tell you about that later.
We both definitely knew Jesus' presence with us today at all sorts of points. Seeing the faith of the people involved in the home - including young men who were once street children themselves - has been unforgettable.
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