Recently we had a small team from The Heritage Church in Ohio visit the Gran Comision Church here in Choluteca.
On one of the days that they were here, they visited a family that the church had met 3 months ago. The family used to live on the roadside, and two of the children were killed by being run over by cars and one little boy who is still alive was hit by a car, half his head was crushed and is now deformed but they managed to save his eye.
The children are severely malnurished and many are to such an extent that they are mentally disengaged with what is going on around them, and do not respond to any form of mental stimulation. They have many infirmities that is associated with malnutricion and the family are very poor but they try very hard to make money for there family.
On very good days, the family will earn 75 limperas but this is not very often and other days they earn nothing and this happens quite frequently, and unfortunately this is when the family will have nothing to eat. The church has been helping with food when it can and the leadership has been praying very hard as to what could be done to help the family.
It was our prayer that maybe the family could be moved to Limon which means that the three children who are severely malnurished can attend GCLA nutrition clinic and the parents could work in the bread factory and tortilla factory. but we where unsure how this would happen because we had no funds to do this, but God had everything in hand.
The team from Ohio looked at the needs of the family and have pledged support to move the family and pay for the children to attend the clinic.
The leadership of the church here had been taught by Pastor Giovanny that we need to fall in line with God's plans rather than try and get Him to fall in line with what we want. This is a great example of God showing us the way, and as usual He is good.
We say Thank-you very much to the team for everything they have done and for all there support, This is just one family, sadly there are thousands like it in Honduras.
One of the children in the family, you can see he is suffering from malnutrition.
Another one of the children, she is very dirty and again malnourished.
The same little boy in the picture above. The children do not really respond to much around them, this is due to lack of food and mental stimulation while growing up.
Julie Barderang from Heritage Church holding one of the little girls from the house.
This girl is only 12 years old and has been taken out of school to cook and clean and look after all her younger brothers and sisters.
Julie giving clean water to one of the children.
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