Yesterday I got to bring a woman to church with me who is in hiding with a missionary friend of mine. She and her kids were being abused by her husband, so my friend and her ministry helped her escape while I was in the US. My missionary friend was looking for someone to take them to a Spanish speaking church this week and thought of me.
We had a great time! It was so nice to see her get lost in worship. Her kids really enjoyed the kids' classes. I hope they choose to go back next week. They seemed like super nice people.
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This morning I was happy to see most of my co-workers again! Some are still on vacation. The room was still only 2/3rds full at our time of devotion. After the devotional my team had a meeting to discuss the year to come.
We will be serving in Los Pinos!
The cool thing about the way we are entering Los Pinos is that ALL of the different sections of my organization are going in together. We'll serve another 50 kids in Los Pinos, as well as their families. But we are going to do even more than work with the teens and families! People from our Transform Honduras team, as well as The Peace and Justice Alliance team, will go into Los Pinos schools, health centers, and the police force.
I believe they are going to find that the police presence in Los Pinos is nowhere near as prevalent as the other areas we serve. We are getting more police headquarters in other neighborhoods. I think Los Pinos needs about four new police posts.
In the middle of the meeting one of my coworkers told my boss that the mothers she works with would like to learn to write. Another coworker chimed in saying there are mothers on her caseload who can't write and are struggling to help their kids with homework.
You may have read about my boss being a woman of action. As my coworkers spoke, she kept looking at me. When they finished she asked if I would be interested in teaching the mothers we serve to write. I said sure!
In my mind I thought - Thank God Spanish is phonetic!! I was imagining myself Googling "How to write in Spanish" when my boss said, "We will sign you up for classes this week so you can learn how to teach writing."
Yes! Classes sound great! Professional development will help me be a good, confident writing teacher for the women in our project.
So, I now have my first new assignment of the year. (Besides cleaning out the closets and filing cabinets last week.) I am going to be a teacher to women who don't know how to write!
A few days ago a friend told me she thinks God is showing me favor. I must agree.
