August 19, 2010
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Big Rain, Big Problems
It’s the rainy season here. That means it rains almost every single day. For hours. The last two days it has rained really hard. Last night it rained for about seven hours straight, hard rain. Last night, we got a call about 9 that the church was flooding, and there was lots of water on that side of town. This morning, when I was running, I saw four or five businesses who outer walls had collapsed. I saw one school that had flooded out. When I got home, JD called our principal and she told us there was no school today because of the floods.
We are going to the church in about an hour to help clean up the destruction and we will know more about the situation once we get there. My main hope and prayer is that the music equipment was not destroyed and that the building was not knocked down or destroyed in any way.
This news comes as we find out that no teachers will be paid for the month of August. We will continue to be paid because we teach at private school, but the pastor of our church, Arturo, and his wife Ruth will not be getting paid this month. They have not had school for almost two weeks now and are unsure of when they will return. The government recently made the decision to take away the retirement fund for the teachers and that all the funds they had earned up until now will no longer exist, there are also some other payment issues, but we are a little unclear as to what they are. This means that many of the families who tithe at church will not be getting paid as we have many teachers who attend our church.
Please pray. Please pray for peace for Arturo. Please pray for the safety of Danli, for protection for those who have lost their homes, for protection from the disease that flood and rain water bring. Please pray that this flood will not bring further heart ache to Danli and to Honduras.
