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Fawcett Family Christmas Newsletter
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Keydi Paola Osorto
I’ve put off writing this entry for awhile. Too long. And I apologize for that. I wanted to write something eloquent. But I find words difficult.
On September 7, I received this email from Ian:
Stevi,
Today has been a very difficult day for us here in Choluteca. Keydi Paola died today at 3 pm.
She was admitted in to hospital on Friday and we have been shipping down medication from Tegucigalpa because they did not sell it here in Choluteca. She was really sick on Saturday but when we visited yesterday with Pastor Giovanny she seemed much better.
Sadly I received a call saying they needed more medication urgently at around 12 midday. The medication was due to get to Choluteca at 4pm. It would not have made much difference the doctor said because TB had set in and her defenses were so low.
Praise the Lord she accepted Christ with a Pastor from Cedar Creek Ohio and the CHV team had a chance to confirm here acceptance on Saturday, I was really privileged to be asked to pray for her around 5 minutes before she passed away. She was peaceful when I told her God was there with her.
Thank you for your prayers and your support in all we do, our work here would be much harder than it is without your input. For us it has confirmed once again the importance of the support groups who have rallied around carrying out various things needed before and after Keydi’s death.
Blessings
Ian
MU student returns home safely from Honduras
MU student returns home safely from Honduras
Sunday, July 12, 2009 | 12:01 a.m. CDT
BY David Goldstein, Columbia Missourian
COLUMBIA — As soon as Tyler Shields walked off the plane, his mother screamed and gave him a big hug.
It was an emotional reunion for the MU senior and his parents on Thursday evening, with Shields returning to the United States after being stuck in Honduras amid a government coup.
“I breathed a sigh of relief when he finally got back,” his father, Mark Shields, said.
In an attempt to block Honduran President Manuel Zelaya from returning to the country, interim government officials closed the country’s main airport last week, leaving Shields to find an alternative departure route.
Shields, who was in Honduras for six months on a mission trip, said he was calm at first but started to get unnerved as the week wore on.
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Student stranded by unrest
Student stranded by unrest
Coup prolongs his Honduras mission.
By T.J. Greaney
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
University of Missouri student Tyler Shields poses with Luz in a recent image
from Honduras, where a government-closed airport has stranded Shields,
who has spent six months doing mission work with HIV-positive patients.
If everything had gone according to plan, Tyler Shields would be home by now. Last week, the University of Missouri senior was scheduled to complete a six-month mission to Honduras.
Based in the southern river city of Choluteca, Shields has been helping run a clinic for malnourished children, working with AIDS victims and teaching English and history at a bilingual school. He said it’s been a life-changing experience.
“You really completely forget that you are working with people with HIV, AIDS or children that are malnourished,” he wrote in an e-mail to the Tribune. “They become just another person to you, and I believe that’s the point. We are trying to destroy a huge stigma that exists in this country.”
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Rock Newsletter – Spring 2009
Here is the Spring 2009 Rock Newsletter about our partnership in Choluteca.
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.
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.
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.