Lessons from Guapinol

Guapinol (pronounced gua as in guava, pea as in yucky little round green things, and knoll as in grassy and Dallas) is a very small shrimping village on the southwest coast of Honduras…to me it represents both the dramatic need and the great hope of much of Honduras.

I’ve learned a lot over the last six years of traveling to Honduras and I thought that I would pass some of the lessons on to you. Here we go:

• Dollars don’t equal joy…
• The poor are less owned by what they have than are the wealthy…
• Don’t pack your clothes until it is too late to have church…
• Pastor Oscar (head of the Concillio) is a man of God…
• Sister Reyna can cook…
• Functional sound systems have nothing to do with God honoring worship, still it is very nice to have one…
• I can sweat…
• People are people…
• I’m not the only one who can sweat…
• You grow most when you are outside of your comfort zone…OK, so I stole that one from Nathan Barnes…
• Old cars never die – they just get shipped down to Honduras…
• God will use anyone who is available and who will be faithful…
• I should have paid attention in 6th and 9th grade Spanish…
• Bano (spelled B - A - N with a ~ over it - O) is an important Spanish word to know…
• God gives traveling mercies…
• Our prosperity and comfort sometimes prevents us from fully comprehending the work of God in the body of Christ (more on this in a future post if I can remember to do it)…
• When they say “Don’t drink the water,” they MEAN IT…
• Our support of the Concillio truly is a good and a noble thing…
  

Blessings,
PB