The first day of work we got up to Duke banging around the church getting things organized. He was ready to get started. When the rest of us got to moving we started to load up the trucks to go to breakfast when a bread truck pulled up. Some of the team bought bread. Then we went to breakfast. We had tortillas, black beans and eggs. There was also cereals and some of the sweetbreads we bought.

After we finished breakfast some of us decided to walk back to the church for morning devotions. Megan talked about the light of God going before the Israelites when they wandered in the wilderness. She encouraged us to see the presence of God before in the work that we are doing. Then the teams had prayer with our in country partners and started assembling the boxes that go on the panels in the homes. After breaking for lunch we headed out to a house for an installation.

The installation was for a house for an older woman who lives by herself. The whole team of 9 as well as 10-12 Honduran workers in this little bitty house of approximately 400 square feet. She had no light in her house at all. So we got started.

To be honest it was a bit chaotic with this first house. People trying to do too much, attempting to translate instructions no Spanish, making sure everyone had a chance to do some of the work. But we worked hard all afternoon and just before sunset the last light fixture was added and the lights were turned on. The woman’s face shone with joy!! And several of us newbies teared up when the lights came on and it all worked. What a sense of joy and accomplishment; what a sense of hope. The light does shine in the darkness when we come together and work together to help others. And we often find that in helping others we have been helped ourselves.

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