WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:04.320 But uh let's give our Miser's director, Dietra Brown, a warm welcome. 00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:17.839 Well thank you so much for allowing us to share with you all that God did and I just am excited to just tell you all the things that He did. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:23.359 But I want to thank you for being part of this because this isn't just the 14 of us. 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:28.320 We've we're missing many today, but 14 of us that went, but it was all of us. 00:00:28.399 --> 00:00:31.839 You're praying and you're giving, and I just thank you for that. 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:36.399 So let's see if we're getting warmed up here. 00:00:36.719 --> 00:00:41.280 But um so many of you were involved, and we just thank you for that. 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:44.479 Just pray for some of our missing people. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:50.640 Um, Elaine is had eye surgery and she's having a lot of pain. 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:57.119 So I'm sorry you're gonna miss her because you know she always shows Paul up with her um sharing. 00:00:57.280 --> 00:01:00.799 So anyway, but we just want you to okay, here we go. 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:04.159 Let's go to the next slide and we'll get started. 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:08.239 Um I'm gonna turn sideways so I can see what I'm talking about. 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:17.519 Well, I just needed to put that in there because you Melvin always reminds me how I said years ago, pray for me so I wouldn't pinch kids' head off. 00:01:17.599 --> 00:01:20.640 And so I just want to show you that I don't always do that. 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:22.079 So I do love them. 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:32.879 So um I just wanted to thank um Bob and Russell and Ben for getting up at ODARK 30 to take us, and they're just faithful giving up their time to take us. 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:34.319 So I just thank them. 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:37.200 And this year we have our biggest team yet. 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:45.359 We had uh five new members, and unfortunately, um you're not gonna be able to hear from three of them because uh they're at a wedding. 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:55.760 So Wade and then Jack and also Jordan were new to our team, and I just wanted you to see their faces, even though you can't hear from them, but they just blended in. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.959 And I think the one thing that really stood out to me about this trip was the unity. 00:02:01.280 --> 00:02:09.520 This team just came together and just did whatever needed to be done whenever it needed to be done, and it was a blessing to serve alongside of them. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:28.080 And I think one of the things that uh I wanted to share with you, I'm like Pastor Danny, this isn't in the slideshow because I the Lord gave it to me this morning, but I thought about in Revelation he preached about they overcame by the blood of the lamb and the word of their testimony. 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:34.319 And so this year for devotions, I just wanted everybody to share their testimony. 00:02:34.560 --> 00:02:36.000 And it was overwhelming. 00:02:36.159 --> 00:02:37.439 I wish you could hear that. 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:55.919 Each person's story of how the Lord's mercy brought them to himself and how they accepted Christ, and then how the Lord brought them to this church, and oh every one of them said, and it wasn't like normal church, but uh that they felt welcome and they had never left. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.479 So it was a blessing to hear those testimonies. 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:03.759 So also Melvin is working and Clay is out of town on a trip. 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:07.599 So just that's why we're missing so many people. 00:03:07.840 --> 00:03:09.360 Just wanted to share my heart. 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:14.879 Last year, you remember we were able to take backpacks and just uh bless these kids. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:23.360 And a month or so ago, my mom called and she said, They've I'm at Walmart and they've got backpacks on clearance for one and two dollars. 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:25.039 How many do you want me to get? 00:03:25.199 --> 00:03:32.960 So it was such a blessing to be able to share these backpacks with the kids at in the neighborhood and then also at the orphanage. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:45.280 And I just wanted you to see these, and so many people have purchased clothes that were able to take, and these 10-year-old boys were just blessing my heart, holding up their pants and just excited about what we were giving. 00:03:45.439 --> 00:03:49.280 So, anyway, and of course, we gave moon pies. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:56.319 So, where there's uh moon pies and we gave oatmeal cream pie, and when Jesse's along, he's gonna give out dum dumb suckers. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.080 And I'm pretty sure Dina had all three within two seconds. 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.479 So, anyway, Jesse, come on. 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:11.120 Just as a warning, uh, you will have to talk if you go with Dieter while you're there and while you're here. 00:04:11.280 --> 00:04:14.560 So my least favorite thing to do. 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:16.879 That's why I tell her we bring hammers. 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:24.000 Uh, this this year we built 36 pews, but we did not build them for the church that we were putting them in. 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.879 We actually built them for other churches while we were there. 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:31.279 We built them in a spot about the size of this stage, as you can see. 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:33.680 Uh that's 36 pews piled up. 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:40.319 We may have used the neighbor's roost to dry them while we were staying. 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:44.160 Uh Deedra didn't want to go out on the edge there. 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:46.000 You can see we nominated Ryan. 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:49.040 Paul can comment on that later. 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:51.279 I see the hand motion there, Paul. 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.120 Uh just a little. 00:04:55.279 --> 00:04:58.480 Uh we loaded them all up in a truck there, you can see. 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:00.720 We've got a a pile. 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.680 That's exactly how many will fit in a truck, too, by the way. 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.360 Just in case you were wondering. 00:05:05.519 --> 00:05:06.879 36 is it. 00:05:08.800 --> 00:05:10.800 That is where they took part of. 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.000 You can't you can't get a truck to that church. 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.560 They had to park and carry them. 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.040 But that that is a blessing that you can't understand for them. 00:05:21.519 --> 00:05:24.879 Because they they can't go and just purchase that. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.759 That that's what they need right there. 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.040 So now eat it. 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:42.000 Well, this little that little fellow they had there in the picture, I had the pleasure of meeting him in 2016. 00:05:42.079 --> 00:05:43.759 I didn't get to go in 17. 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:48.720 He's still at the orphanage in 18, and he ain't grew an inch since 2016. 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.759 But it's my little friend. 00:05:52.399 --> 00:05:55.920 Uh, another mission trip they went last year, I didn't get to go. 00:05:56.240 --> 00:05:58.959 Fortunately, the pews was not able to be stained. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:02.079 I go this year, they're ready to be stained. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:06.160 I'd like to go on one where I don't have to do what I do at home every day. 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.839 But it's okay, it's for the for the good. 00:06:10.399 --> 00:06:12.720 Uh, that's men and lane hard at work. 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:16.560 See the rest of them, they're all sitting around in the shade, taking it easy. 00:06:19.920 --> 00:06:22.160 She's in the right teacher when we go work. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.600 But anyway, it was uh it's all good. 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:27.199 Melvin and Jesse. 00:06:28.240 --> 00:06:32.319 Uh you know, it's hard to say what it's work like working with these guys. 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:34.160 But you know, they're like my second family. 00:06:34.240 --> 00:06:35.439 I taught them when we were there. 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:36.959 Love these guys. 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:41.040 Uh awesome thing we get to do when we go down there. 00:06:41.120 --> 00:06:41.839 It really is. 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:54.399 This guy here, uh, I won't let this man talk more about him than I do, but I don't even know if he speaks Honduran, but he's got sign language that I can understand. 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:57.519 So when he tells you to do something, you do it. 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.879 Paco, uh, manhell, friends. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:05.439 Me giving my testimony at that church, hardest thing I've ever done. 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:09.759 You got an interpreter beside you speaking in that language while you're trying to speak. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:11.839 I'm not gonna lie, I was lost. 00:07:12.079 --> 00:07:13.199 Got tongue-tied. 00:07:13.920 --> 00:07:19.199 Wade also got to do the same thing, and it was a blessing getting to hear Wade's testimony. 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:24.560 So uh Matt's not here, but we'll let somebody else take over for him. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:32.879 Well, my middle name is Matt, so I guess uh anyway. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:40.800 So we went this year to uh the year before we we helped him put up the concrete block walls that you see on the outside. 00:07:40.959 --> 00:07:46.560 This year we had to take down the portable building from the inside of the new structure of the new church. 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:51.040 So that's what you see paws up in the rafters, taking those down one at a time. 00:07:51.279 --> 00:07:53.839 Uh everybody's pitching in. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:54.720 There's Jordan. 00:07:55.040 --> 00:08:02.800 He's clawed away, and the panels come out and these sections to be loaded on the trailer, move to a different location where they start another church. 00:08:02.959 --> 00:08:06.480 They've already got locations picked out where it needs to go. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:12.000 Um just some of the local kids from the neighborhood. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:14.560 This is, I guess, BBS. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.319 Elaine and Ryan, she can talk about that more. 00:08:18.560 --> 00:08:20.879 Um this is BBS again. 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.079 Matt was supposed to be here talking about this, but he hadn't work to do. 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:25.920 So uh that was quick. 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:28.000 Matt should have been here. 00:08:28.079 --> 00:08:28.879 That was fast. 00:08:31.759 --> 00:08:35.039 Uh, he's eating moon pies that the kids are supposed to be eating. 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.480 I think Dietra caught him in this moment. 00:08:39.519 --> 00:08:40.159 Yeah. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:41.679 And here we are. 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:45.039 Uh we'll go back to the first one. 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:46.960 Yeah, there we go. 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:53.200 So in Matthew 28, Jesus tells his followers, go to all the nations and make disciples. 00:08:53.440 --> 00:08:57.360 And although we're not all preachers or evangelists, this team here will testify to that. 00:08:57.519 --> 00:09:01.279 None of us even really want to be up front anywhere with a mic in our hand. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:12.159 But uh we've all got a testimony of stories here, and we've all got unique gifts and talents that the good Lord has given us so that we can take part in making those disciples. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.200 And that's what we do. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:20.879 We're a bunch of electricians and painters, uh, butchers, carpenters, insurance salesmen. 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:24.639 We just come together for a collective purpose of building churches. 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:29.120 And when I got home, I was talking to my dad, and he asked me about the trip. 00:09:29.200 --> 00:09:32.080 And when somebody asks you that, you know, you're thinking about the highlights. 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:40.240 Well, the highlights for me, we'll get to this in a minute, is uh I like building churches and I like playing with the kids at orphans. 00:09:40.399 --> 00:09:42.639 Uh on that a little later. 00:09:42.799 --> 00:09:52.080 But uh I told my dad I like building churches because even after we're gone, that's a platform where the gospel can be proclaimed after we're long gone. 00:09:52.240 --> 00:09:54.000 So I really enjoy that. 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:57.279 And that's how we take part in fulfilling Matthew 28. 00:09:57.519 --> 00:09:59.679 I'm not a pastor, preacher, evangelist. 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:01.440 I don't think Jesse is either. 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:03.600 Wade, really, or Adrian? 00:10:04.000 --> 00:10:04.720 Paul, maybe. 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:05.360 I don't know. 00:10:05.519 --> 00:10:06.240 Anyway. 00:10:06.879 --> 00:10:08.879 So back up one slide. 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:12.480 You can tell they don't work us too hard because we still got time to play. 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:16.159 This started with little kids and worked it up to Jack and Jordan finally. 00:10:16.399 --> 00:10:17.120 Wade and I. 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:18.639 Okay, go ahead. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:27.840 Um after the temporary building comes down, there's about a five-foot gap between the temporary building and the new building, and we're prepping to pour the concrete. 00:10:28.960 --> 00:10:29.519 You can see. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.240 Um the concrete's not that easy like it is here. 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:43.360 They dump the material on the street, and you have to carry it down from the street to the church in buckets and haul the water over here in buckets to the mixer. 00:10:43.600 --> 00:10:49.279 This was the stairs to the temporary building, the sledgehammer over there against the back wall. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:54.639 That was our tool to remove the stairs, just break them all up and then carry it out piece by piece. 00:10:54.960 --> 00:10:59.919 Um, we tore up the lock on the door while we were there, so this is our attempt to fix it. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:00.559 Dan ran. 00:11:01.279 --> 00:11:04.879 You know, he's chief locksmith, he's got his hand on. 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.600 Yeah, I think Adrian and I went up getting it right in the end. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:12.799 A painter and a plumber, yeah. 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:19.440 This is uh this is the dedication of the of the building Wednesday night. 00:11:19.600 --> 00:11:22.399 The floor, the temporary building's gone, the floor's abored. 00:11:22.559 --> 00:11:26.799 Ryan and Paco got all the wiring in, the lights are up, the fans. 00:11:27.039 --> 00:11:28.320 It's it's up and running. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:32.080 So here's another one that they just dedicated Wednesday before. 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:38.720 Uh highlight of my trip is not to work, just getting to play with the kids at the orphanage. 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:41.600 If we get the work done, then we have a free day. 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:42.879 That's what I like to do. 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.440 So we're arm wrestling over here, these little guys. 00:11:45.600 --> 00:11:48.960 They find your phone with some games on it, and they just swarm to it. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:50.240 Slick candy. 00:11:50.480 --> 00:11:51.679 Something on the other side. 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:53.919 And these are just these eating moon pies. 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.799 Uh they're just being sweet over here. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:12:00.159 And uh I love this little guy here. 00:12:00.399 --> 00:12:06.320 He's got double dum-dums, one for each, one for each cheek, the sticks crossed in the middle. 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:10.720 Uh, anyway, and just these little kids are precious. 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:17.440 And uh, a long time ago the Lord put on Lori and I's heart to adopt from Guatemala by hundreds. 00:12:17.759 --> 00:12:30.000 But if the Lord's ever prompts your heart to adopt a kid here uh or far away, uh be obedient to that, to that prompting because she's been just a sweet blessing in our life. 00:12:30.159 --> 00:12:32.320 And these little kids are precious. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.120 Uh, they just need good loving families. 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:47.440 I guess I'm first in line because I have reserved the number one greater spot in the family over this trip. 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:51.679 If you don't know, I am his daughter-in-law, and that is my husband. 00:12:51.759 --> 00:12:53.919 So they are raiding the greaters all week. 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.039 And so Elaine's number one, but I am a close second. 00:12:57.200 --> 00:13:06.320 So um the little girl that they just showed was waiting for me at the uh well she didn't know I was coming, but it seemed that way. 00:13:06.559 --> 00:13:10.000 I got off the van and she just ran to my side. 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:11.919 Um, you can kill him. 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.320 Uh, yes, so I'm married into a construction family. 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.960 I don't know if that's a good thing or not right now. 00:13:19.200 --> 00:13:24.240 Um so uh we were sanding and I don't sand really anything. 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:31.840 So the first day I got done sanding, I think I felt like I had arthritis in my hand, and I couldn't move my hand for the entire day. 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:36.240 But it helped because the next day that I sand, I could just slip my hand over the sander and it kept going. 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:44.559 Uh then we after we finished the sanding part, uh, we got to stain the benches. 00:13:44.720 --> 00:13:47.039 And I was so excited about that. 00:13:47.279 --> 00:14:01.919 And uh, yeah, funny story, after we got back, I had so much poly ther polyurethane on my hands, it took me two weeks to get them off because by the end I was slapping it on there left and right, trying to get off because I was tired, poly. 00:14:02.080 --> 00:14:04.399 Those benches, I was just slapping it. 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:05.679 I had it all over me. 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.559 I don't think Adrian approved that much, but he just didn't care. 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:15.679 Um this they persuaded me on this trip because of course the kids. 00:14:15.840 --> 00:14:19.919 I I've been on two mission trips before that, and kids have always been involved. 00:14:20.080 --> 00:14:28.639 And I warned my husband that when we came I was gonna fall apart, or I was gonna stuff them in my pockets either way. 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.559 Um and so much joy comes out. 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:40.000 Um I was videotaping the kids getting their backpacks, and the boys were just jumping up and down and just tearing them apart. 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:46.639 And um Jesse fed them so much candy they were hyper and running around. 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:50.960 Uh between the moon pies and the opo. 00:14:51.360 --> 00:14:53.840 That's one of the kids, he goes, Take my picture, take my picture. 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.919 He puts the the wrapper over his and I thought it turned out super cute. 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.200 He was he was adorable. 00:14:59.600 --> 00:15:00.320 Keep going. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.200 Uh this was my favorite little girl. 00:15:03.360 --> 00:15:07.440 She held my hand the whole three hours I was there, I think. 00:15:07.679 --> 00:15:12.320 And if I could take her home, I haven't been married long enough, so I can't take her home. 00:15:13.519 --> 00:15:16.000 Uh this is just another one of the little girls. 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:27.120 What there was like 47 kids or so 37, um, ranging all the way up to 20 years old, they don't they don't know where to go. 00:15:27.360 --> 00:15:30.799 After age 15, they can they can pretty much leave. 00:15:30.960 --> 00:15:36.080 So let them go into sex trafficking, or especially the girls. 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:53.200 And to see these two, this couple take on these kids uh as their own and treat them as their own, even uh and let them stay for that long was just a blessing in disguise. 00:15:53.679 --> 00:15:57.519 Um this was I think this was all one of my favorites. 00:15:57.840 --> 00:15:59.120 Because she was so excited. 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:02.799 We got there and she got those Barbie dolls and she had to show us her Barbie dolls. 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:05.519 Then she had the boom pie, and I caught her in this moment. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:11.039 I have several pictures of her, and she's just all that oh little green pie up in the air. 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.600 She's devouring all over her face. 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:18.240 And uh my husband can relate because that's his favorite green pies on a mic. 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:22.559 I was like, I relate to her so much, so you can keep going. 00:16:22.960 --> 00:16:31.120 Um but what I was gonna say is uh one of the questions that Todd answered it too is when we got back, people kept asking me, How was your trip? 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:40.799 What was the first thing that I was immediately humbled because I don't realize how blessed I'm here. 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:50.159 I'm blessed to have a church family that has windows and doors and chairs and a pastor that speaks the truth. 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:57.440 Um I'm blessed to go home to a husband and a family that I can count on, but some of these kids don't. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:05.359 Um so I'll let you my second favorite person in the world besides Jesus. 00:17:10.160 --> 00:17:15.440 For those of you who don't know, I'm Garrett, Ryan, better looking half. 00:17:16.319 --> 00:17:19.599 And yes, I know I outfunted my coverage, Pastor Danny. 00:17:21.599 --> 00:17:26.160 This is uh the community electrician, Paco. 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:30.079 Uh I think Adrian understood it better than I did. 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:35.119 I don't really know what he speaks, but I know it's something I think couldn't understand. 00:17:35.680 --> 00:17:39.759 And he's uh sweet, sweet man, very nice. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:45.039 Uh but he is it's his way or the highway. 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:59.359 And uh understanding his way was not my gift, and it was Adrian's gift of I don't know how he understands the hands motions, but all I did was no, no. 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:04.400 Because 90% of the time it was no, no, no. 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:06.640 Anyway, you got it. 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:16.160 Um so in Honduras, um I don't think they have a word for inspection. 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:21.599 Uh it's just kind of you know, make it work. 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:26.720 And so this was me learning firsthand of making it work. 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:29.440 Um, Osha doesn't live there either. 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:31.759 Here you go, next one. 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:39.839 Um so yeah, this we just um we're installing fans on the walls and lights up top. 00:18:40.079 --> 00:18:43.680 And uh you gotta push it through that orange conduit right there. 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:45.680 Uh it's all stranded wire. 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:49.039 That's your panel over by Paco, and he's telling me no. 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:49.759 No. 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:56.319 And uh so um it it it's it's it's pretty simple once you learn how to do it. 00:18:56.400 --> 00:19:00.240 Um, but you gotta understand what Paco's saying first. 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:02.160 You go to the next one. 00:19:02.400 --> 00:19:04.799 Um Clay had the hardest job of all. 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:11.759 He had to take a chisel and literally uh knock every single hole out for the plugs to go in. 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:17.920 Because how they do it is they go nail it on the back of a board and then they pour concrete all around it, so the concrete just goes in. 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:19.759 And so yeah, bless his heart. 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.599 He had the hard one. 00:19:21.759 --> 00:19:29.599 And uh that's uh we had to, you know, fill, like Todd's saying, there was a gap around the whole building. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.200 So, dad, you know, thank you, appreciate that. 00:19:33.759 --> 00:19:38.319 You know, I had to drill all the holes, you know, and hauled over and put all the rebar in. 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:40.559 That's why he wanted me to come, really. 00:19:40.640 --> 00:19:43.599 He just he wanted me to do all the things he didn't want to do. 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:50.960 This is uh this is my Honduran family. 00:19:51.279 --> 00:19:57.039 Uh we would have probably came back with some some if she if it was up to her. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:19:59.759 But you had to get married for you know three years. 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:01.279 So thank God. 00:20:02.319 --> 00:20:07.599 Uh but really these uh these kids were great. 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:10.640 They were they made the trip worth it, you know. 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:18.000 Just I mean the uh I love the the construction, everything, but the the kids were great. 00:20:18.160 --> 00:20:25.119 This this kid, he all he wanted to do was sit on my head and play with my hair, and then he would stick my head to stick his hand down my shirt, you know? 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:28.480 Oh god. 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:35.039 I told you I was a favorite because I'm speaking twice. 00:20:35.279 --> 00:20:42.240 Um that the little girl that was in the previous slide was actually the pastor's granddaughter. 00:20:42.480 --> 00:20:52.400 And fun fact of her, she had six toes on one on one foot because I don't know why, but at a year they take that, they have to wait a year and then they take the toe off. 00:20:52.559 --> 00:21:04.319 Um But we had the honor of uh going on that Sunday to um teach the kids in the church that we were helping out. 00:21:04.640 --> 00:21:09.920 And uh Elaine asked me, she says, Do you want to do the game or do you want to do the lesson? 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.960 And I said, I'm gonna do the game because I'm Mrs. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:13.359 Funn. 00:21:13.440 --> 00:21:14.160 And that's what I told her. 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:14.960 I said, I'm Mrs. 00:21:15.039 --> 00:21:15.599 Funn up there. 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.960 Of course they didn't laugh, they don't get my humor, I don't I don't care. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:25.200 But um, so Elaine went and did the story of Jonah. 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:29.359 We started out with an egg hunt, and you can keep going, you don't know what the pictures are. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:35.440 Um, and we thought when we got there, they said, Oh, we only had to have 20 kids. 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:40.400 We get there, there was what, 40 something kids, 42 kids. 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:44.000 We had we didn't, we were not prepared for that at all. 00:21:44.240 --> 00:21:48.640 We had no eggs left, and but we made it work. 00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:51.680 So we had enough candy, and that was good enough. 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:57.839 And um we had an Easter egg hunt, and the story was you can't hide from God. 00:21:58.400 --> 00:22:04.640 And um Actually, Gio, and Gio is I don't know what he's in watching. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:10.400 Anyways, one of the guys there, his son, kept interrupting Elaine because he knew the entire story. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:15.680 He'd raise his hand up and she let him answer, and then he'd answer and tell the entire story. 00:22:15.839 --> 00:22:17.759 So Elaine, it was like double the story. 00:22:17.839 --> 00:22:19.680 I was like, You're gonna be a pastor one day. 00:22:19.920 --> 00:22:22.640 It's just Abe was all into it. 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:36.160 Uh and then afterwards we got to pray over the kids and take a picture, and um, we had the honor of this one little kid, um, I can't remember his name. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:42.960 Um, but he had can't be poor who was his name, and he was just diagnosed with cancer. 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:46.240 And so we got to go around him and pray over him. 00:22:46.400 --> 00:22:59.920 He has no idea what's going on, but that moment spoke to, I know it touched my heart, and I know it touched all his heart to be able to be with our brothers and sisters in Christ and pray over this young one who has a long road ahead of him. 00:23:00.160 --> 00:23:01.759 So it was amazing. 00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:13.359 Um I assure you, you don't get to see a lot of kids every day. 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:20.160 But when you come here, you can tell how much these little children touch every one of these people's hearts, and it's amazing. 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:30.240 Um I tell you, they've all talked about a lot, and it's it's pretty amazing to me what all got accomplished in that. 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:39.200 But there's a lot of planning that goes into um putting one of these trips together that starts months in advance, but it but it never ceases to amaze me. 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:46.400 Um as much as we think we've got it all planned, God really knows what we need in each trip, it seems like. 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:51.200 And it doesn't matter if it's equipment and hashtag American style mortar mixer. 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:51.920 Where's Darren? 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:53.359 Is he is he still out? 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:54.000 Okay. 00:23:54.400 --> 00:24:06.559 Well, I I I g we have all kind of had the joy, I I think there was a secret joy in my heart that the I had some young teenagers that were going to get to experience Honduran mixers, which is that floor in a shovel. 00:24:06.720 --> 00:24:11.440 And it doesn't matter if it's 20 yards or 10 yards or one yard, that's what it is. 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:17.680 And so we got there, and um and and uh miraculously that mixer showed up. 00:24:17.839 --> 00:24:24.400 And so uh not that Dan planned that mixer, but it but God delivered that mixer, and that was amazing. 00:24:24.559 --> 00:24:31.759 Um so whatever we need, and one of us sometimes equipment, sometimes it's key people within a church stepping up. 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:41.359 And that church had some of those people this week, that week, and they stepped up and they made that week so much more productive and efficient. 00:24:41.519 --> 00:24:42.559 It was amazing. 00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:51.519 Um, and then of course, uh having a team with you with a willingness and a heart to serve, and that's what these these folks, these folks mean. 00:24:51.759 --> 00:25:01.599 No matter what it was, um, in Honduras, when you uh, you know, well CCW in general is a is a is a church that's got a heart for service. 00:25:01.839 --> 00:25:05.440 I mean, daddy talks about it a lot, and it's you gotta plug in. 00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:10.240 And we're about serving and meeting people's needs at home or abroad. 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:16.960 And so in Honduras, what that means is every day coming up with a daily task of what needs to be done. 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:29.599 And and I'm not the biggest uh everybody here's not necessarily my fan because I generally put that task list together, but what they got accomplished in that short period of time is just amazing. 00:25:29.759 --> 00:25:37.599 Um they did show the true love of Christ, every single one of them, whether it was Clay, and Clay's not here, but let me tell you something about that, bro. 00:25:38.720 --> 00:25:47.680 I've never met somebody who has got the most humble spirit, who is always willing, no matter what, to say, yeah, what you need, I'll get it done. 00:25:47.839 --> 00:25:49.200 And never thinks twice. 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:50.240 It's just amazing. 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:55.359 I just he's not here, and he's he's always amazed me every every uh every trip. 00:25:55.519 --> 00:26:03.200 But everybody here, and Garrett's right, I did talk him on this trip, I wanted him on this trip because I did not want to do everything I knew needed to be done. 00:26:03.359 --> 00:26:05.599 But uh, no, he he was a blessing as well. 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:06.640 All of them were. 00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:08.640 Todd doing what he did. 00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:12.880 Uh I gotta tell you, I got a little list of things that we we got accomplished. 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:20.319 But going down there, we didn't really know what was going to be in store for Plumbingwise, and he uh he got it done, and I'll tell you about that in just a second. 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.000 But um you've heard some of the stuff that we we did. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:25.279 Some people have talked about it. 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:29.680 I want to run through real quick the official goals for the week. 00:26:29.839 --> 00:26:32.079 They were to disassemble the existing church. 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:35.839 You saw that photograph of a church inside of a church. 00:26:36.079 --> 00:26:36.400 Okay? 00:26:36.799 --> 00:26:40.240 That was a building inside of a building, and that's just how they do it. 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:43.839 Because uh space and money and all that stuff is a factor. 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:46.559 But we had to disassemble the church carefully. 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:52.000 We had to load the church, walls and roof, as well as every piece of scrap that you could possibly think of. 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:53.519 Nothing gets thrown away. 00:26:53.759 --> 00:27:01.599 Clay and I were just amazed that we were loading that church into the and the fact that we got it in that in that box truck was amazing too. 00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:08.960 Um so we had to demo a raised concrete curve around that was around the entire footprint of the church. 00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:13.599 They had to excavate all the material between the old and the new footprints. 00:27:13.759 --> 00:27:20.240 They had to prep and pour a new concrete slab, approximately 10 yards, probably nine and a half yards of concrete. 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:27.039 Um, elect from an electrical standpoint, we we had hope to at least rough wire the plot the building. 00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:30.559 Um that was going my my thought going in. 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:32.799 And this pew, you've heard a lot about these pews. 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:36.880 Um, if you I'm gonna try to give you perspective on how many pews they've done. 00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:45.920 It was the it was more pews than they've done in every every other trip we've ever gone, and it was enough pews to fill this entire church. 00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:53.680 Okay, it was 36 pews, eight Hondurans per pew, and and that's 288 folks. 00:27:54.240 --> 00:27:56.960 That is an enormous nut, and it was a great blessing. 00:27:57.119 --> 00:28:04.079 So that team did build, did sand, did, and they did it all week without even missing a beat. 00:28:04.480 --> 00:28:18.400 But in addition, in addition to all of those things, uh, because uh this we did have such a great teamwork that you mentioned at the very beginning, in addition to that, Todd was able to identify the plumbing needs. 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:24.720 He ran new water lines, formed a shower pad, we eliminated hydrostatic and drainage concerns that the church had. 00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:37.119 We ended up with uh not only just completing an electrical rough end, but we were able to get all the lights in and put power in so that they could actually have service and they could run their systems and they could run their sound systems and everything. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:40.240 They installed four fans that fixed all of the church. 00:28:40.480 --> 00:28:44.079 The landscape of the pastor's backyard, let me tell you about this pit crew. 00:28:44.240 --> 00:28:46.400 This crew right here, they need an applause. 00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:49.599 I want everybody in this church to give these people an applause right now. 00:28:49.759 --> 00:28:50.319 Alright? 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:53.680 They're not here. 00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:59.359 Uh none of these folks are here, but that's Wade and that's Matt, and Jack and Jordan were down in there. 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:08.400 What all of that excavating materials I talked about, you everything we excavate for the last two years, we just said dump it over the side, dump it over the side. 00:29:08.480 --> 00:29:12.079 And what that means is into the back of the pastor's backyard. 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:18.880 And last year, Darren and I want to say Todd, right, got down in there and tried to make something of that last year. 00:29:19.119 --> 00:29:20.480 Mostly Darren, right? 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:24.799 And Darren's not here, but I wanted to tell Darren how proud he would be of what Wade. 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:36.000 I think Wade was kind of guiding what was going to be done down there, but Matt, Jack, and Jordan were down there, and they really terraced that landscape beautiful, put in a little spillway, a little creek. 00:29:36.240 --> 00:29:38.880 It was amazing what they did with throwaway. 00:29:39.279 --> 00:29:43.920 It reminds me what God does in each one of our lives, if we'll let him. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:46.640 Anyway, uh, so they did that. 00:29:46.960 --> 00:30:00.079 We formed and boarded a sidewalk, I guess we kept coming up with things to do, but uh we installed a window at the pastor's house, repaired, steps leading in and out of the church, uh, back gate, and as well as just multiple things. 00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:05.759 And uh, I gotta tell it was a blessing to have these people with us there because we wouldn't have got it done. 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:09.519 But we also would not have got it done without you here praying for us. 00:30:09.759 --> 00:30:11.200 We thank you for that support. 00:30:12.400 --> 00:30:14.720 And that's basically the finished church. 00:30:14.960 --> 00:30:17.359 Um some of those pewties. 00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:19.119 Alright. 00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:30.160 See, I can't let this go by without without talking about this because I know Todd kind of mentioned it, but what you've got there is a pastor, of course, staring, watching. 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:30.720 Right? 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:31.839 Right, I'm kidding. 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:39.759 But we have a plumber and a and a painter all trying to fix a lock, while the carpenter was sitting down watching them having a blast. 00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:41.839 So, no, it was awesome. 00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:44.400 They got it done and it worked perfectly well. 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:47.279 Okay. 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:49.119 I'm gonna try. 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:11.039 So, um I'm gonna read for it, I guess. 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.839 Um so this is Maria. 00:31:14.400 --> 00:31:18.799 Um, Paul and Elaine were able to meet her last year. 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:21.279 Last year, the last four years. 00:31:21.519 --> 00:31:24.079 Um, and she's been there every year. 00:31:24.559 --> 00:31:31.200 Um we had the honor, me and my husband got to meet her this year, and absolutely fell in love. 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:35.359 Um Paul was completely smitten. 00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:47.119 Um never in my six years I've been around have I ever seen my father-in-law actually love and care for someone that's not in not in a way. 00:31:47.200 --> 00:31:52.160 He loves and cares everybody, but the way that he treats this girl. 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:52.960 Don't lie. 00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:56.000 Ah, you know what I mean. 00:31:56.240 --> 00:32:02.720 Um, but I'm gonna try to read from what he says so I don't mess this up. 00:32:03.440 --> 00:32:05.359 Um, Eramina is her name. 00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:06.640 She goes by Maria. 00:32:07.680 --> 00:32:14.480