Helena
UMC Team /Shalom Dorm September 2009
About
3 months ago our Hondruan mission team was in its final
stages of preparation. We were ten members
 strong from the Helena UMC, Alabama . Helena
pastors Mike Edmondson and Paula Jones commissioned
our team to travel to LeCeiba, Honduras . We
made plans to replace the roof on a girls dorm that
had been leaking for a long time. Because
of the peace the girls living in the dorm now have, the
girls named the facility the Shalom Dorm. My
concern was that we would not give these 20 grils and
dorm mothers a dry place to sleep. They had been
dodging and catching the rain with buckets, pots and
pans for about 2 years. You
see, that is the way of life for many families in Honduras
. My concerns began to grow as our team began to
dwindle from 10 to 7. Then the Honduran military
by order of the Supreme Court of Honduras deported its
President. Because of the countries lack of stability and
political demonstrations our team  was now at 5 members. Finally
our team was down to 3, I prayed God is this mission trip
for now or later. Let
me know if you want us to change our plan. There
was just silence. We just continued to
move forward with our plans. My thought
was there was no way the 3 of us could remove 4400SF of
roofing and install the metal roof in 6 days. We
went to Honduras the last few days of August and first
week of September. We landed in SanPedroSula and traveled
to LeCeiba. The security checks points police and military
just waved us through from one city to the next until we
reached our destination Cruzada del Evangelio, LeCeiba Honduras
.
God placed an awesome team of brothers
together Hondurans and Americans. The three of us were named
the Gideon team by Sister Eleanor Cooper the Director of
Cruzadas. But it was God’s team Honduran
and American brothers and sisters that accomplished what
seem impossible to men but was possible for God. At the end
of our work week, the dorm mother Suyappa told us that she
had been praying that the whole roof would be finished. One
Cruzada church gave up its share of roofing so we would have
enough roof metal to finish the whole roof. The Shalom dorm’s
roof was finished in 3.5 days. Only God do
we give the praise and glory for bringing such a team together
to accomplish HIS purposes! What
man thinks is an impossible task, is always possible with
God. We just have to be willing to serve as HIS disciples. Dan
Anderson, Tim Letson, Joe Jones
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