The Face of God

Hey everyone! I hope that everyone is doing great! I'd like to give you a quick update of what I've been here! For the past 2 1/2 weeks I have been in rural Honduras in the Opalaca Mountains! They are located on the southwest corner of Honduras. Kairos Discipleship School partnered with Mercy International top bring the Gospel to the Lenca Indians throughout the Opalaca Mountains!
To sit here and try to type all the things that happened in Honduras and all the things God has been showing me would take a really long time. I do want to share with you how I saw God in Honduras. The picture above is the view I woke up to 9/16 days while there. To see the mountains, with a foggy layer covering them so the peak was not visible was an absolutely amazing thing to see. To literally imagine God's hand painting such a picturesque sight would bring a smile to my face every morning. To sit outside every morning during quiet time with nothing to do but read quietly His Word and feel His breath in the wind, blowing gently pushing against the pages of my Bible as I would read. Now my time in Honduras was not quite this simple the whole time. Once we  hiked into our first village after the village of San Pedrito, me and two translators were the first to get there. It was a quiet hike, but once the children saw us coming, they would yell,"GRINGOS, GRINGOS!" (white people) The children were sweet, they never once asked why they didn't have the things that we did. We did VBS' in that village and surrounding villages. At the beginning of this trip, I went knowing that I would potentially be bringing the Gospel to places it has never before. I thought that knowing that should have gotten me more excited than I was, but that was soon to change. The morning of February 17th we were getting ready to split up in groups and hike to three different villages. At the last minute I changed the group I was with and started our hike to the village of Agua Sucia (Dirty Water). It was a 3 hour hike, but once we got there it felt good to be done walking! We saw little kids coming towards us and told them to go get there friends! They came back and there was around 20 kids ages ranging from maybe 3-11. We started doing our VBS and teaching the kids songs like "I've Got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy down In My Heart" and "Jesus Loves Me" (in Spanish). Brian, who is a staff on Kairos, was about to teach them Jesus Loves Me when he asked, "Do you guys know who Jesus is?" The translator translated and then there was a moment of about 30 seconds of pure silence. This was such an uncomfortable silence for me.... My body shivered with goose bumps, I heard my heart beating, pounding harder and harder in my chest. To know that none of the kids I was staring at had never heard the good news of the Gospel got me feeling such an incredible feeling. I felt that I truly was bringing the Gospel to places it had never been. I felt a part of the Great Commission. I felt a part of changing lives for one short 30 seconds. All of this, going on in my head... it was the best day in Honduras and one of the best days in my entire life. We shared the Gospel with those children, gave hugs, played games, and then left. We didn't spend a significant amount of time with these kids....but God gave me peace. He gave me peace knowing that our team had just planted 20 little seeds in those kids hearts, He gave me peace not worrying rather they understood it or even believed it for that matter. My heart was at peace and that's all that mattered that day. You see, we can't get all tied up on how many people we can reach for God, because we really aren't the ones doing the work inside their hearts. God has given us His Word to constantly be planting seeds. After the seeds are planted, God, in His timing, will water the seed and continue to do work in someone's heart. This is the most valuable lesson I have learned about patience. Hondurans are amazing people, they are kind, hospitable and very eager in learning about their Heavenly Father. Seeing their eagerness was an encouragement to me and the rest of my team.
I am having a dinner/concert to raise funds to complete the rest of the money that is due for Kairos this Friday, March 2nd to share some more short testimonies about all that happened while I was in Honduras and what God has been teaching me through Kairos as well. I would really like to see as many people as I can get to go and have a great night enjoying good food, AMAZING worship, and a nice time of fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. I hope that if you are coming you will invite friends who AREN'T believers, and trust that God WILL USE YOU in planting His Seeds!! Amen!

God Bless You All,

Danielle DiTerlizzi