Rick and Cheryl on Adventure

Rick and Cheryl’s mission to Honduras and first foray into volunteer work among the poor in another country has come to an end. We enjoyed a fitting conclusion to our journey as we spent time with the global workers of the Latin American/Caribbean region at their retreat in Orlando. We were privileged to be invited to attend the retreat as we were just short-term workers - not full-time global workers who have moved from their homes in Canada and given significant portions of their lives to ministry among the poor and oppressed in countries around the world. We met more than 40 global workers who serve in places like Haiti, Guatemala, Brazil, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Cuba, and Dominican Republic. We were honoured and humbled to talk with them and learn snippets of their stories. At Blue River park - a Manatee refuge close to Orlando We met the Redmans who have been in southern Brazil for the past 11 years. They operate a facility for troubled youth who are sent to them by the cou...

December 8th was our last day in Honduras.  We started our journey home early on the morning of December 7th with a 7 hour bus ride from Trujillo to San Pedro Sula. The two of us with our six pieces of luggage boarded a school bus-style coach that did have what appeared to be coach seating. At 8:30 we headed west.  On these buses that bump around Honduras, in addition to the driver, there is a trip manager who solicits riders at every stop and gets them to pay the appropriate fare once they are settled into their seat and we are again under way.  We were wondering if we should have held out for the "nicer" bus, which was a Greyhound-style, but the ticket master assured us this was a direct bus.  Since the seats looked good and it was leaving at the right time, we opted for the school bus.   Looking forward to six hours on this bus Not very many of us were on the bus initially so we were able to claim two seats each.  Rick has done a few trips by bus ...