Spring Container to Honduras - Pray for it!!!!!

Some years ago we, the members of the AHMEN organization, only served the Carolina Clinic in Limon, Honduras.  We  had two medical mission trips per year, and they both went to Limon.  After a fair amount of “harassment” from Sister Eleanor and Dan Isbell of Cruzadas del Evangelio to push our boundaries and serve other areas, our team decided to hold a clinic in Punta Piedra, Honduras.  

 

       Punta Piedra is a coastal Garifuna village in Honduras and did not have any medical presence at that time.  The village was about 3 hours down the rutted, sandy, non-paved coastal road that connected Limon to the Mosquitia area.  They had no electricity, no paved roads, and no clean water source.

 

       The trip was absolutely horrible.  We had two flat tires, lost an axil of one of the trucks, and took inadequate medicine for the number of patients we ended up seeing. The  village was not expecting us, and they were not welcoming.  To make matters worse, we didn’t have enough water for us, many of us got dehydrated, and we all began fussing and carrying on among ourselves.

 

       When we got back our team told Sister Eleanor, the spiritual director of Cruzadas del Evangelico, that we would never, NO NEVER, go back to the Garifuna villages along that coast.  Here is where I had my biggest surprise of the trip.  Sister Eleanor exclaimed:  “O NO, all of your misfortunes just meant you were doing what God wanted you to do and the Devil (personal) was working against you.  The closer you come to doing what God wants you to do, the harder the Devil works against you.  This just means you need to work harder at that particular project and pray more.”  This happened, as I said, some years ago.  Since that time our mission has expanded to include multiple villages and projects “down that road”.

 

       What brings this back to my consciousness at this particular time is the problem we are having getting our supplies into Honduras for our mission work this summer.  As many of you know, the Honduran government has made new rules and regulations in regard to both our container going down (what we call our Spring container) as well as airline baggage supplies.  See the recent blog by Bruce McFadden re this problem.

       If you take a look at the trips AHMEN is either heading up or affiliating with this year, you can see that we need our supplies.  Sandy is working diligently on her end, our container committee is working on this end, and lots of folks are contacting all of their “political connections” so far to no avail.

       As I am prone to do when things seem to be “bogging down”, I called Sister Eleanor in Honduras.  Guess what she said.  “This is great that AHMEN is having so many road blocks, it means you are doing exactly what God wants and expects out of your organization.  Keep up the good work.”  When I asked her for specific advice it was forthcoming: “Keep working and add more prayer.  As a  matter of fact, ask your praying folks to add the entire country of Honduras to their prayer list.”

 

       I was telling “Bucket”, team leader for “It’s a God Thing”, and his response: “Hallelujah, Praise God, Pass this good news to all of the teams and let’s get the prayers going.”

 

       So, get in touch with everyone you know that is a prayer and ask them to increase their prayers for AHMEN, the Spring Container, and for Honduras in general.  Get in touch with anyone who might have a contact in the government of Honduras or the USA and ask for their help.  Get in touch with all of your team mates who might be discouraged and remind them that they are doing exactly what they need to be doing and to keep it up.

 

Signed:

Tom Camp

www.honduranmissions.com

llamacamp@gmail.com

 

       For more information on the container contact: Ivan and Joy Green: Greenei@bellsouth.net