It IS a small world afterall !!!

Disney has it right.  It’s a small world after-all. 

I had to go all the way to Honduras to meet an old friend - a Newfoundlander. He and his wife are here on a long term mission.  They have been in Honduras off and on now since 1998 and continuously for the last five years.  His name is Derm Westcott.  I had not seen nor heard how he was doing now for almost 20 years, but when Abraham had told us, over lunch yesterday that a good friend of his was selling coffee to raise money for street ministries and was curious and very pleasantly surprised to hear it was Derm.

Today Christina, Emily and I had a chance to hang with Derm and see some of the things he is up to.  Not as much as I would have liked because Emily’s cold is dragging her down and we had to cut our visit short. 

Derm showed us a downtown mission that is lead by the First Methodist Church. The help missions groups come into the city (they have approximately 40 groups per year that they host, which is quite a lot).  He then took us to the outskirts of town to show us a new missions facility - there is a gentleman there who have placed his whole life to supporting the street kids mission and the facility they are build is to help accommodate missions groups - at a very low rate. The facility is beautiful an very reasonably priced.  Derm has a wealth of knowledge and has offered to assist us at any point in our church journeys here.  We then heading to a Faramcia to get some decongestant for Emily. Grabbed lunch and headed back to the hotel so that Emily could get some rest.  Derm had suggested that I might get a chance to go into the inner city with him if he could make contact with a specific gentleman (I am bad with names!!!!!) It would be exciting, but also dangerous. Derm himself will not go into the area in question without this guy as the lead. Apparently there is a lot of gang activity and corruption.

Having Derm take us through town again made us realize how crazy it is to get around this place.  Guess my international drivers permit will not see the light of day - and I am ok with that, at least for this trip

Regarding the coffee that Derm sells - Norm and Silvia, if you read this… gear up the church coffee pot as I have a pound of coffee for us to try as a church. 100% of the profits from the sales go to the street missions.

Dios le bendiga

Ed