Palm Sunday

This Palm Sunday in Honduras was quite an experience. Our morning began early with prayer and singing. By 7:30, everyone was outside the Foundation to witness a Palm Sunday procession unlike anything any of us had ever seen. The children dressed in colorful clothes carrying their palm branches and walked us to the end of the street that leads to the Foundation. They even had a donkey on loan from a neighbor especially for the day. When we got to the end of the street, we started the procession back to the Foundation with one of the older boys riding the donkey and the other children running alongside putting their palm branches on the ground for the donkey to walk on. The procession led us all the way to the chapel where we gathered to sing and pray and thank God for sending Jesus. The children were very excited to share this day with us. Breakfast followed and we soon gathered in the chapel again for worship when we participated with the 11:00am service from St. Luke's over the internet. We also talked about how wonderful it is that Jesus has come to us and has made us one family. What an amazing gift. Later that day, a group of us took a trip to a nearby river to swim. A few rounds of "Marco Polo" and a couple of sandcastles later, we drove into the mountains to visit a coffee and banana farm. We came home to a wonderful soup for supper. Before heading to bed, our group met to make some final preparations for the first day of VBS. Tomorrow it begins. This has been a Palm Sunday we will not soon forget.