Drama

Madison "dancing at a disco"

I've been teaching at Madison's school for just over a month.  Selfishly, the reason I wanted to teach was to introduce Madison to acting and to Shakespeare.  My idea was to offer an after-school program for kids interested in drama.  What I ended up was offering an elective for High School 11th graders.  Her school teaches a "block" schedule.  What that means for me is Wednesday am one week I teach, and the following week I teach both Wednesday and Friday morning for 1 1/2 hours.

Some of the activities I have them do are to highlight the right side of the brain - so that's included drawing, miming, charades, and impromptu-acting in front of the class.  Some of her class mates have ZERO problem acting in front of their classmates, there are, of course, a few hold outs who just aren't overly interested, but are good sports and do it.

Carolina "terrified of the zombies coming"

The girls trying to come up with the "next story"

They are currently memorizing a one-act play, and then we will be planning/writing the Christmas play for the seniors as well.  This week I will be introducing them to Hamlet and finalizing it by watching Hamlet by Mel Gibson.

Peace Presbyterian Mission Trip to Honduras - August 2012

August 18-25, 2012 a 13-person short-term mission team from Cary, NC served with us in La Ceiba, Honduras. They worked in a English class, Kids Club, construction, a medical clinic and more.

Watch this 2 minute and 40 second video to see their great work:

Covenant Presbyterian Mission Trip to Honduras - August 2012

August 18-25, 2012 a 8-person short-term mission team from Paso Robles, CA served with us in La Ceiba, Honduras. They worked in a English class, Kids Club, construction, a medical clinic and more.

Watch this 2 minute, 15 second video to see how they did:

Soaring Oaks Mission Trip to Honduras - August 2012

August 11-18, 2012 a 4-person short-term mission team from Elk Grove, CA served with us in La Ceiba, Honduras. They worked in a English class, Kids Club, construction, medical clinics and more.

Watch this 2 minute and 10 second video to see their work:

A New House For The Ochoa Family

In the summer of 2012 we constructed a new home for the 7-person Ochoa family in Armenia Bonito outside of La Ceiba, Honduras. With the help of short-term mission teams the home was complete with cement floors, running water, electricity and a septic tank.

Watch this 2 minute video to see the new house:

Medical Brigade

This week we hosted two teams, one from our very own home church, Soaring Oaks Presbyterian Church, and another great group from Florida which consisted of an MD, Physician Assistant (PA) Instructors, and many PA students.  We broke the week up by hosting 2 medical clinics in the community of La Fe, and 2 medical clinics in the community of Armenia Bonito.  On top of the clinics, we continued with our on-going ministry of English Class and Kids Club.

patient education in La Fe

Provider station in La Fe

Provider station in Armenia Bonito

Taking kids to the river in Armenia Bonito

About half of what I do in my weekly clinic is patient education.  I really feel the only way to change a community is through good, basic, general education.  So, this was a great opportunity for the students to do teaching of their own.  I had them focus on water purification through the SODIS process (a plastic bottle, UV rays, and 6 hours is all you need), healthy eating, dental health, and parasite prevention.  They did a great job!  They did the education at both communities.  Total for the week they saw over 323 patients.  Meanwhile, the group from our home church continued building on the house for the sweet family of Oneyda, Carolina, and Samuel.  GREAT job gang!

Faith Presbyterian Mission Trip to Honduras - August 2012

August 4-11, 2012 a 14-person short-term mission team from Balentine, SC served with us in La Ceiba, Honduras. They worked in an English class, Kids Club, construction, sewing instruction, dental clinics and more.

Watch this 3 minute 25 second video to see their amazing week: