In a week we will be able to practice a fundamental law of mission work: incarnational living. It means that just as Jesus put on flesh and moved into the neighborhood (John 1:14), so are we to do everything we can to live with and like the people to whom we minister.
The house in the Miller community will still be a step up from the poverty of the people of the dump. But it will be closer to them, in geographic and economic distance. Electricity comes and goes, and water may prove to be an ever scarcer commodity. It will be much easier for our weekly Saturday visitors (the young people of AFE) to find us and I hope the visits will become more frequent. But just as importantly, it will easier for us to share life with the Honduran community around us. I dream of starting a Bible study for mothers of the Miller community, who will then reach out to the matriarchs of the Tegucigalpa Dump. And I know that Rey is especially looking forward to the Sunday evening kickball games!
I am certain that my family will be tremendously blessed through this move. Children greet Elijah in the streets and we will have the best neighbors ever! (The Ordoňez family). Shane Claibourn once said: “I believe that the great tragedy of the church is not that rich Christians do not care about the poor, but that they do not know the poor.” We feel so blessed that Elijah will have the opportunity to know the poor, who are also our friends. Thank you so much to Michael Miller who has helped us find housing in Honduras, become acquainted to the country and culture, and made this move possible.
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