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Global Urban Trek 2008
Rico CityJune 28, 2008
This country is rich (es rico) in so many special ways.
We’ve quickly found out that each of our host families have spent a lot of time and energy ensuring wonderful homes for us. We are split up into teams of two, (Grace is a third team of her own), and assigned a different host family with which to stay, eat and live.
I am realizing again that our time is not best used by running around like Christian chickens with our heads cut off, telling them how much more they need Jesus in their lives.
Instead, an incarnational approach (with an open heart) seems to most exemplify Jesus’ teachings, albeit a situation overstated in the church, He didn’t preside in a lush palace and then stroll into town to tell the people who to be. He lived among the poor and therefore, lived to serve. Maybe it’s time we stop trying so hard and just love like Him.
The streets here in Nueva Suyapa are akin to those in San Francisco; each intersection takes a different direction – and at a 50° slope! With only one paved road that zigzags up and around the mountain like a wild snake, we spend most of our sophisticated transportation time on foot, traversing through back alleys, hidden shortcuts and endless tiered stairs.
This week, Vince, Andy and I are working at La Guardaria (Day Care School) from 8 to 12am and later, with Grace and Diana at sports camp from 2-5. Other projects are ESL classes and another community just outside Tegus, where Helyn and Cally are alongside the workers at the Basurero (Garbage Dump Community).
Daytime is fairly sunny but there’s always a beautiful breeze. As far as residents on the mountain, the 35,000 that comprise Suyapa are tightly packed together in various forms of housing construction (wood, tin, concrete, packed mud). These homes overlook a breathtaking, sprouting view of the city and its shining lights.
There is an enormous cockroach in the bedroom right now. More on the community next time when we will have had about a week here, and some more time to reflect. The Lord has already strengthened our hearts and time will only tell what sorts of challenges await us next week.
Till then, for the Hondureños, “Hasta Luego and God Bless.”
- Dylan
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