Sunday - Day 3

Sunday

We worked on finishing the painting in the sewing room and finishing our projects. We finished in time for church service that was live-streamed on the internet from Oviedo. It was great to see a part of home.

After lunch we learned about coffee. They picked coffee beans from up in the mountains. Then they let the beans dry in the sun for a day. The next day they have grinders that take the shell off the bean. It all grinds into a container. They are able to use the wind to separate the shell from the bean. Once you have just the beans they roast the coffee. It is a truly amazing process.

Some of us went into the next town over, Comayagua. They have a church in the town center from 1650. It has the oldest clock tower in the Americas. An old painting of Bartholomew being skinned alive, it was very moving. They have power lines strung everywhere, 50 lines running between poles. Sometimes wires are held off the ground by window shutters.

After dinner the children had a good-bye program for us. It was a wonderful event.

We leave early in the morning to head back home.
We are not sure if the kids will head back with us. It will be hard to leave without them. They are very happy children and have been a lot of fun to be around for the last few days.

Saturday

Hola, Today started off with me waking up and hour late because Jeremy didn't wake me up. Then the kid's from around town came for their weekly Saturday program. Today we did the story of David and Goliath. I happened to play Goliath because I happened to be the biggest person in the chapel. Patrick and Lawton painted the restaurant blue, Rhonda and Michelle painted the sewing room. Rick was still trying to get the internet working perfectly, and Jeremy was working in the apartments trying to get the air conditioning to work. The rest of us helped out Renee, Ruth and Hannah for the Saturday program. Then we went to La Paz in the weekend market, and we got the kids and some adults ice cream. Then most of us spent the day with the kids playing or doing crafts and coloring. TakeItEasy - Tio Winston

We will be live streaming our Service starting around 11:00 am at the ustream address

Saturday - Pictures & live streaming

There are pictures posted at

http://picasaweb.google.com/childrenoflovefoundation

The team has also been streaming live via the Ustream feed today. Take a look and see if you can catch them live. (or leave it open and you will hear them when they come on live)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/children-of-love-foundation

Both links are always available on the left hand side of the page.

There are also pictures available at http://picasaweb.google.com/reneelehenbauer9

Friday (Day 2)

BUSY day today! The guys started digging the trench first thing this morning for the internet cable that they were running from the Foundation to restaurant. Only broke 2 water lines, got many blisters, but by dinner, the restaurant had internet! Meanwhile, the ladies were organizing closets, painting the sewing room and doing crafts with the kids. The weather is HOT during the day but thankfully cools off at night. The kids are wonderful and in good health. We are going to have trouble getting Ileana to leave. I had forgotten just how wonderful it is to be here with the kids. We went to the bank today to exchange our money. We don't realize what we take for granted until you walk into a bank here and get frisked by security and have armed guards let you into the building. Alejandra y Ali are sitting next to me as I type. The rest of the kids are jumping rope-it's a good night in Honduras... -Rhonda

Mission Trip leaving Thursday

Our next trip leaves on January 21

July 7th Update

Dear Friends, here is the latest update from our foundation. We have been in touch with the children and employee's of the Children of Love Foundation daily since the trouble started. All are doing well. Our concerns are eased since all the employees and family are staying at the foundation. It is visited daily by the La Paz police patrol for security sake. There are very few problems in the city and surrounding area. It is mostly in the big cities where all the demonstrations are. The foundation has food and water and necessary goods for the next three to four weeks. We are making plans with my brother and our two lawyer board members to care of the needs of the children and families at the foundation. We need to pray that their will be a solution soon to the conflict in Honduras. God Bless.

Doris Patalano
Children of Love Foundation

Political Trouble

Please pray for a peaceful end to the presidential situation in Honduras. At this time, the community of La Paz has remained at peace. Schools are closed so the children are learning at the foundation. They are doing well even if a little uneasy. We will try to update the blog and the web site as new information is available. They do not have Internet access at this time so information is only available through phone calls.