A Letter from the Mission Field (28 March 2012)
Greetings Everyone! I am making great progress in the study of Spanish, thanks to the tireless, patient efforts of my teachers at the Ixbalanque School. In addition, I have become involved with the local church, offering my design services, as needed. I have provided several sketches for the Holy Trinity Church in La Ceiba (on the north coast) and construction plans for the Church of the Holy Spirit's parish hall in Santa Rita (a few miles from Copan) . Furthermore, I have a request for a schematic design of another evangelical church in Santa Rita. Beyond architecture, I feel called to reach out to the very poor. However, because of the overwhelming and unyielding needs here, it is hard to know where to begin. On the edges of life, I have seen great hardship. The other day, I saw a man, without legs, drag himself through the streets by his arms. He had strapped tire treads to the trunk of his body to protect himself against the concrete and the cob