Ortez Family Video – by CedarCreek Church
This video was produced by CedarCreek Church, another church that partners with Iglesia Gran Comision in Choluteca. This video does a great job at telling the story of this family, and the hope provided through the generous hearts of the brothers and sisters of Iglesia Gran Comision.
To love at all is to be vulnerable
"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it up carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable… The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers… of love is hell." – C.S. Lewis
You don’t see what I see
You don’t see what I see
by Joey Soto
I don’t think you get it.
But it’s not your fault, really. It’s not.
When you see this picture, you don’t see what I see.
Recent Posts on CHV Blog
If you haven’t yet read the recent posts on the Casa Hogar Vida blog, you should! You may see some familiar faces…
- Father’s Day in Limon.
- The Rock’s Visit to Honduras.
- The Rock Central Methodist
- Yasaira’s new hair cut.
- Manualidades move to Casa Hogar.
Caley’s Favorite Photos
Two Hours at the Dump
Two Hours at the Dump
By Caley Palmer
This is just an excerpt from my journal from Tuesday, March 24th:
After visiting Casa Hogar Vida and having siesta time, we went to the dump. I knew it would be hard and blow my mind, and it did. At first it looks just like any normal dump – trash, messy, vultures, not pretty. But then, you look closer and see people DIGGING through it, people sitting in make-shift shacks amongst it all. Or then, you walk up to this enormous pile of rotted food, bloody meat that look like they just came from a slaughter house. It was absolutely disgusting. Cow carcasses, bones, bloody, rotting meat — and they had to stand and dig through this to look for plastic bottles.
Manualidades On Sale @ The Rock
While we were in Choluteca, we bought out the inventory of Manualidades.
We have all sorts of bags, purses and kitchen linens, ranging in price from $5 to $25. Most purses and bags are $18.
So if you’re in Columbia, stop by Middlebush Auditorium on Saturday at 7:07 and pick up something special hand-made by the ladies of Manualidades, benefitting Casa Hogar Vida.
“Bien” — This is Love
"Bien" — This is Love
by Joey Soto
One minute you’re in the friendly confines of an upper-middle class hotel, and the next you’re staring poverty and all its friends in the face.
It’s humbling and heart-breaking. You’ve seen the pictures on TV and seen the infomercials about helping feed a starving child for only $.10 a day, but you don’t really believe what you’re seeing can be real. You can’t fathom such devastation when you’ve only known of luxury.
Walking down an uneven, trash-filled, grass-barren path surrounded by barbed wire for who knows that purpose—they had little to protect—you have no idea what is about to hit you. It feels like a commuter train hitting you head-on at 60 mph. But it’s not. It’s worse.
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