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Launching a Children's Ministry

5/5/2011

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You may remember that last year we built the Activity Center.  One of our main reasons was to create a space for our future Children's Ministry.  We've lived in Urraco for the past three years.  As we've taught classes, opened the Library to the community, and simply developed friendships with people, we've seen those relationships deepen and grow in trust.  One fantastic example of this, is that at our recent community movie and game night we had more than one hundred and ten people come and participate, from our village of five hundred! 
We feel it is the right time to invite our friends to know the God that we love and serve.  Right now we're working on getting together a leadership team to prepare solid teaching and worship.  David Martinez, who many of you have met, is going to be in charge of the teaching times.  José Rito (who Sarah talked about in a recent blog) will be working with the worship team.  We plan to launch this Children's Ministry soon.  Please pray that God will use our lives to make an eternal difference in the lives of these young people. 
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Investing in Students

4/26/2011

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During our time living and working in Honduras we've seen how much education changes lives for the better.  Without education, people have few options in life and often end up trapped in poverty.  There are almost no jobs where we live and if people move to the city without resources they often end up in the roughest neighborhoods with drugs and gangs.  But education changes things.  We know kids that are in medical school that come from families where the parents only went part way through grade school.    We really believe that education means more options and opportunity for a better life. 
One of the main ways that we help students is by giving them work.  Every year we give at least a dozen kids part-time work so they can cover the expenses of studying at Instituto El Rey (the school where we volunteered for a year-and-a-half).  We have about six students that work year round for us, helping with the library, construction projects, and property maintenance.
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Ronald is a student that's lived with us for close to a year-and-a-half now.  As an older student (he's a 23-year-old 12th grader) he's had to fight to stay in school.  When he lived with his family, they expected him to be up at 4am to help with the cattle and then he worked for us after school to pay for all his school and living expenses.  Ronald was thinking of dropping out of school until we offered him a place to live.  He still works after school, but now he has the time he needs to study and he's looking forward to graduating from high school this November. 
When we started our library program a year-and-a-half ago,  Alma was asked to help.  She has grown into running the day-to-day program and has discovered that she is a natural teacher.  We've enjoyed seeing her grow in confidence and ability as she works with the kids. 
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Many of you remember Ruby and her five younger sisters that we've helped through the years.  While we're not as involved with all six girls as we used to be, we still try to spend time with them and encourage their studies.  When the new school year started in February, we outfitted them all with the new uniforms and school supplies they needed.  We're amazed at how much they've grown up since we've known them.  The youngest, Abi, was only two when we started helping them and now she's in 2nd grade! 
We still spend quite a bit of time with Ruby and Roxana, the oldest two from this family.  Last year Ruby lived up at our place for much of the school year.  She and Roxana still come and stay over often.  They work in the library and do other projects to help pay for school expenses and practice their English with us.  In this photo, Roxana is in her school uniform (she's now in 10th grade) and Ruby is dressed to head out to her internship.

This week  Ruby, Alma, and Ronald are all down in La Ceiba, starting their 12th grade internship.  In Honduras, students are required to do a month long internship as a part of their last year of school.  For all their work in the library, we are providing Ruby and Alma with a place to stay for this month.  We are certain that this experience of living and working in the city will help prepare them for their transition to university studies next year. 
Another student that we're investing in is José.  José is in 11th grade at Instituto El Rey this year.  He is a kid with a great heart and an amazing musical ability.  With very little help, he's taught himself guitar, piano, and trumpet and he now helps with the music at three churches and his school every week.  He often comes over to our place to hang out and practice on our piano.  Jason is starting to teach him to edit music and video on the computer and I (Sarah) ended up giving him an impromptu voice lesson last week. 
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As we look towards the future with these young people we are excited about helping them fulfill their dreams.  Next year we'd like to send José to La Ceiba every week for music lessons from the biggest  name  group in  Spanish  praise and worship.  Ruby will be off to university next year and Give Hope 2 Kids has committed to help her study.  We hope that in the future we can provide scholarships to more students.  This is just the first wave of kids heading out into the wider world that Give Hope 2 Kids has touched. 
We are passionate about continuing to invest in the education of young lives, to give them a future with greater possibilities.  We want to say our thanks to so many of you who enable us to be a blessing to these young people. 
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REWIND 2010: Our Year in Review

1/27/2011

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Each year we like to put together a visual  summary of  what we've accomplished.  This year we decided to try and put it online so that  it's accessible to more people.  
2010 was incredible for us.  We finally are a Honduran nonprofit and are working directly with the Honduran Social Services to take in kids.  Most homes only have to wait a few months once they're at this stage.  
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Also this year, we finished our Activity Center, bought cows, bought sheep, and bought beehives.  In our REWIND we also talk about our plans to start a Children's ministry for young people in surrounding villages.  We've got lots going on.  Thanks for helping us be here and make a difference in the lives of vulnerable young people.  Click below to visit the site. 
 REWIND 2010: Our Year in Review 
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Roofs Needed at Urraco Elementary School

10/1/2010

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Several months ago when Jason's Father, Paul Furrow, came to visit, he spent time up at the elementary school while Jason was teaching English classes.  He got it in his heart to help put new roofs on two of the buildings there. 

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We teach our English classes in the assembly hall of the school and the roof on that building was getting dangerous.  Many of the wood rafters had termite damage or were rotted and part of the roof actually had several inches of plant life growing on it.  It was time for it to be fixed. 

Up a little hill from the rest of the elementary school is the old kindergarten.  Several years back there was a big storm that knocked over a tree onto the building.  Ever since then the kindergarten has been without a roof and kindergarten classes take place on the teacher's front porch.  The building was in rough shape after being without a roof all these years and the kindergartners still need a classroom.  This building needs a new roof.

The past few months we've gotten excited about this project.  It is a great way that we can give to our community.  We feel that the effort we put into making the school a better place will pay off in the kid's lives.  Through our example we hope they will learn to value their education highly and take their learning seriously.

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A Community Work Update

4/6/2010

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We are still busy working with the kids in our village of Urraco and we wanted to share some new photos with you.

Since February we have been teaching English classes again in our village school.  The older kids (4th-6th grades) seemed to retain quite a bit from their English classes last year and are starting to make real progress with basic vocabulary. 

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A new project that we've just begun is teaching the kids how to use computers.  This, along with English, will really give these kids a step up in the future. 
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Some of the younger ones (1st-3rd grade) still don't know how to write their own names yet, so they're a little behind on the learning curve, but on their way.
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So far Jason has taught some of the computer basics to the older elementary grades at school and then invited them to come for a special training session at our library.  We had the computer teacher from Instituto El Rey, Dennis, come and teach the kids.  Dennis is from Urraco, so it was really neat for him to be able to help the kids growing up behind him.  We had about 30 kids and a few adults show up to learn, starting from the very beginning with how to move a mouse. 
In the next few weeks we'll start training the kids how to use the computers to play educational games during library time.  We think that computer time might be a reward for the kids as they their write mini-book-reports. 
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Our library attendance has been booming since the playground opened.  We are now averaging about 30 kids on library days.  They come about an hour early to go swimming in our creek and to play on the playground.  Then we bring everyone inside for reading time, puzzles, and arts and crafts, before releasing them to the playground again at the end of the afternoon.  The crowd of kids then walk home together before it gets dark. 
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It's been a really neat time to get know the kids better.  At the village school when we're with the 80+ kids they're no longer a crowd of unknown faces, but we now know their families, their stories, and almost  all their names! 
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Ministry in Action

3/19/2010

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This is a quick video that a short-term missions group from Seacoast Church in South Carolina made after their time with us. It shows our English classes, library, and other ways that we reach out to these kids.
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