Honduras, Day 3-5 pictures

These are not necessarily in strict order, but here's a day in the life of the Children's Ministry section of the BFC Missions Team. I am going to try to grab some pictures of the construction team tomorrow: they are working hard at the El Socorro church, doing a beautiful job putting tile on a rough concrete floor. Because I have not visited that site since Saturday night, I have no pictures of my own to show you. That team is John Schmidt, Nathan Beatty, Ken Kensinger, Ben Crane, Elijah Thompson, Dave Megginness, and Mark Thompson. The first four have worked there every day, the last three have alternated, working sometimes with construction, sometimes with the Children's Team.

One of the Schools we performed at was within sight of Betania (warning - I am inconsistent: sometimes I spell the church "Bethany" (Anglais) and sometimes I spell it "Betania" (Espanol)). This picture was taken from the Betania church.

Looking back across the small valley, you can see Betania. This picture was taken from the school above.

We are about to begin the performance.

Pastor Edwin gets the crowd rowdy before John Montoya really gets them rowdy with some lively songs on his guitar.

Time to take everything down, and move to the next school

Getting setup for a performance at another school. Like many of the schools, this one has an enclosed and covered courtyard in the center of the school.

Some happy faces

Now it's time for the afternoon VBS at Betania. First, opening exercises . . .

Then craft time . . .

Now it's time for handbells . . .

And games . . . 
 

Doris snuck into the clinic and got some candid shots of Pastor Robb hard at work, and Pam and Alysia, who were apparently the ones really doing the work . . .

The day's ministry over, we pile into our bus, and the missionaries and their kids into their car. We all stopped at an ice cream store on the way home, which might explain these happy faces. Though I don't have a picture of it, Dr. Robb was grinning too . . .

The evening wraps up with a group devotion led by Robb. Tomorrow, we do it all over again. Hopefully, that includes the ice-cream part . . .