“VICTORY HIGHWAY TEAM #23”

By: Michael J Miller Jr.

With all our team reports that we send to you we wanted to do something different for this team. As I looked at all the photos in what was accomplished by this team, something kept hitting my heart. I noticed that each photo had a family shot. Not only did we have family shots in working together but we had a team that came to serve but was served by our Lord Jesus himself. There was healing with relationships. There was growth in each person’s faith in witnessing the need in Honduras but also encountering personal struggles, questions, and knowing more about our Lord and his will for their lives. The top photo is the team working with their new family. The 6^th grade class came out and started excavating the dirt so it could be moved to the back of the school to fill in holes and areas that were potentially dangerous for the children. This School the Santa Margarita is hosting their first team in the history of this school. The school has an enrollment of 170 children that come mainly from poor families and gang families. This school is at the base of the 18^thst. Gang. You may ask why this school is different than the others. Well this school takes in children that can’t enroll into the “better public schools”. This school actually has a group of teachers that pray and believe in Jesus Christ. They witnessed that they would pray with the children every day for help. They asked God that He would provide the resources needed to add additional classrooms and a kitchen. This team embarked on this. In the 2^nd photo are Daniel and Clair who are married and coming to Honduras for the first time. The 3^rd photo is Tyler and his dad, Ron. They had the pain taking task in chiseling the concrete out so we can put in new reinforced posts for the 2^nd floor.

This team was preparing the ground work and reinforcement for the 2^nd floor building that will be built. Also they continued working on the kitchen that we are building as you can see in the 3^rd photo below. This kitchen is the same style as all the other kitchens. While the team shoveled, moved concrete block, poured beams and floors, welded steel joists for the second floor there was something else going on by the Spirit of God. While working and towards the end of the week I noticed that the two brothers and sons of Ron were sitting and preoccupied. I asked them if they wanted to talk. They opened up about their life and the struggles that they had back home and how it seems so much simpler here in Honduras. I asked Oscar, one of my youth to come and sit with us and testify in how God changed his life from an alcoholic addicted life style to a Christian man. As we witnessed to the young men the tears came down their faces. I asked would they like to receive Jesus Christ as their Savior. They said yes! We prayed them in and they have been changed. Their dad hugged them and praised the Lord because he had hoped that they would change their lives while on this trip. This as well happened to Hanna. She was in Pastor Giron’s church listening to a message and the listening to the voice inside her head repeating the talk that she heard on Saturday. She wanted to reconcile with Jesus and I was blessed by the Lord to be able to pray here in to the family of Jesus. Family was the theme and change was the object. Team members walked away with more than they thought. They are adopted, purchased, reconciled, and sealed by the Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:4-14