Step By Step

Starting last week, this idea for a blog has been starting. We are all children of God and He is walking with us each moment of the day.

One Saturday this month we all went to Katlyn's host home for a birthday party for her host mom. We noticed that Katlyns host sister, Katlyn, Brynne, and I all had similar shoes on. So us being the girls that we are, had to take a picture to remember this:

We were visiting a village to see the buildings that have been built for the people there. As we were spending time with one of the men that lives in one of the houses, we noticed his shoes.
For some reason, this man has left an impact on me.

At the one ministry that we were helping at in Choluteca, they were showing us where the men were making cement blocks to make buildings out of. They are in an open field mixing the cement and framing the blocks in the hot sun. They are wanting to build a shelter to keep some of the sun away during their work day. This is what I saw when I was walking through:

This is when we were helping at an orphanage (the same area that they made the blocks). This particular day we had brought water balloons to play with the kids. This is one of the little guys standing on a stone as he was trying to reach the water source to help fill the balloons.



And at the end of that week we stopped off at the beach. I knew that I needed some time to process the past week. It was a different experience than what we were used to and the weather was so different than what we are used to here in Tegucigalpa. Jim asked me if I wanted to go take pictures, because that is what I enjoy doing most to help process. So I started walking through the sand, down the beach and wherever I could see something new. And then came the point to turn around and go back to the group. In the sand, this is what I saw:

This reminded me of the "Footsteps" Poem.

 

And then came today. We were at our ministry for this week (construction) for about an hour when the pastor asked Brynne and I to come with him. Not being able to catch everything he was saying, we didn't know exactly what we were going to do. So we asked Sonia what the pastor had said, and he had asked us to help go pick up Yoni.

 

Yoni is a 19 year old man that one year ago got shot and is now paralyzed and in a wheelchair. We met him yesterday for the first time. He came to the worksite (which happens to be the local BIC church) and he spent time watching, reading his Bible and listening to the Worship music that was playing. So today, we went to pick him up from his house. Brynne, the Pastor and I went into Yoni's house and had to lift his wheelchair over a step that was one foot high and outside. When we got outside, the Pastor had me push Yoni's wheelchair down the dirt road to the church. I don't know if Yoni will ever walk again on Earth. I know that he is praising God no matter what situation he is in.

 

I want to get to know Yoni more, to ask how he really feels.

 

I know there's more to this post, maybe another day I will add on to this.  Always remember that God is with you no matter where you are or what is going on in your life. You also have brothers and sisters in Christ.

 

-Nikki

 

Psalm 23

1The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.
²     He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
³     he refreshes my soul.
He guides me along the right paths
    for his name’s sake.
⁴ Even though I walk
    through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil,
    for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

 

• Pray for my new friend Yoni. Pray that even though we cannot speak the same language, that we can form a friendship in Christ.
• Pray for our team as we will be needing to leave Honduras next week to renew our Visas. Pray that everything will be fine and that we will grow even closer to God in our next half of our time here.
• Pray for those that when things get rough, that they will remember who created us and who is walking with them every day.