May 2022
Hola Familia!
The past few months have been busy, busy, busy! Between hosting mission groups, GCLA's spring break conference in Honduras and being back at work in the CDI, it's been a whirlwind. Here are the highlights!
CDI
Mid-March we returned to in-person classes at the CDI! The kids are divided into two groups-each child comes 2 days/week. I teach kids ages 10-17- two days/week I dedicate to English and the other two we work on reading/writing. Most importantly we start each class with a devotional with the goal that each child leaves my classroom knowing how much they are loved by their heavenly Father. My heart feels so full to finally be in the CDI and get to know all the kids (learning 85 names and faces takes a while).
This upcoming month will bring even more changes at the CDI in that once or twice each week we will have parents of each child come so that we can sit down and talk them, we want to get to know the current state of their household and more importantly create the opportunity to share the gospel. Please be praying for these meetings and for many families to come to salvation!
If you have any favorite classroom activities or games- I'd love to hear them!!
Mission Team
In March our church hosted a mission team from Rock City Church. They built and delivered 10 beds, evangelized and passed out food in a local community, handed out shoes to each child in the CDI, and mixed concrete to build a sidewalk around the new clinic. We finished off the week with a trip to the San Salvador Volcano and the local artisan market.
GCLA Vertical 2022
Each year during Easter week GCLA (Great Commission Latin America) hosts their annual conference in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This was the first time they hosted in in-person since 2020 and my first time attending. It did not disappoint! A group of 14 of the youth from my church decided to rent a small bus and go for the in-person experience and I absolutely loved it. The theme was A New Chapter- we talked about discipleship, prayer, the Holy Spirit, and challenges facing the youth today among other topics.
Clinic Inauguration
For many years now our church has had the vision of opening a clinic that could be used to serve the community and as a tool for outreach. The Lord in his faithfulness and timing gave us the very thing that we have been praying for for so long. In partnership with Total Health, this clinic will be open 2 days a week and will offer free medical consultations to the community with a focus on preventative health measures. The doctors from the Volcano and Soyopango clinics have generously offered to come to La Libertad one day a week each in order to help us get up and running as soon as possible. This clinic will be an incredible blessing to all of La Libertad and to all the kids in the CDI as it's an opportunity to show the community that apart from their physical needs they have a great spiritual need. Please pray for this clinic- that every person who comes will not only have their physical needs met but accept the One who can meet their spiritual needs.
Pray with Me
- Youth Ministry- pray that the Lord would use me and the leaders in the youth group and that He would put it on the hearts of each member of the group each week to come.
- Pray for a revival of discipleship in our church- for intentionality and commitment in discipling the next generation.
- That the clinic would be a space for many people to come to know our Lord and Savior!
- For the CDI- that above all things, every child would leave each day knowing our Heavenly Father a little bit better.
Thank you for your continued partnership and prayers. I thank God for you continually, and I pray that he bless you abundantly!
Bendiciones,
Alyssa
1 John 4:4
You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them,
because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.
