Last week we had to send the girls home a day early due to road closures and a potential bus strike.  This is a few of the girls scrambling for their bus early thursday morning.  This week we are keeping them until Friday even though they will have to walk through a demonstration to catch their bus on the other side.  There is still no end to the political turmoil in the country but we are trying to keep things at the Center as normal as possible.

On Sunday, Erica and I were able to go to Tocoa, the nearest town, to get her husbands medications and a few essentials not available in Trujillo with the road closures.  We had to walk a short distance through the closure, but it wasn't too far, and there were very few demonstrators probably due to the fact that it was Sunday and it was raining.  This is a picture of some of the buses parked at the other end waiting for those of us who walked through, to drive us the rest of the way in to Tocoa.

Even though things still aren't settled politically here in Honduras, we are doing what we can to maintain some semblance of "normalcy" in the Center.  Yesterday we celebrated 4 birthdays, with 4 cakes, and 4 presents.  

Today I thought I would be able to make a trip into the next town - Tocoa. Erica and I heard that the demonstrations and road closures outside of Trujillo had been moved to another area. Unfortunately it hadn't been moved, but expanded. There are now demonstrations on several other highways in Honduras, cutting down on most travel in the country. This is serious for Wilfred, Erica's husband. His medications have run out and aren't available here in Trujillo. Please pray that some how we will be able to travel and at least get his meds. We are hoping the demonstrations will shut down for the weekend and that we will be able to go tomorrow. There are still negotiations in progress regarding the future of the presidency of Honduras. Please continue to pray.

This is Andrea Nohemi. She is one of our first year students. Until she came into the program she had never sewn anything, she hadn't even touched a sewing machine. The skirt she is wearing is the first thing she has ever sewn in her life. She was so proud of it when she finished that she had to come and model it for Erica and me. It's not perfect, but it is a start.

Today is another day of "wait and see". You'll be happy to hear that the bank let me withdraw money yesterday, although the teller says the trucks still aren't coming out to Trujillo to deliver money, but there have been enough deposits this past week to allow withdrawals.
As far as the political situation, we are still waiting to see how things will play out. The deposed president still hasn't returned to the country, so we are waiting to see what will happen next.
Hopefully things will have settled down enough by Monday to allow the girls to come back to the Center. Last week we had to suspend classes since we didn't want the girls passing through demonstrations to get here.
We are on a 6:00 p.m. - 6:00 a.m. curfew, so church services are being held in the afternoons at our church. Things are pretty quiet at night although I have been told that 39 people were arrested in Trujillo last night for breaking the curfew - so the police are taking it seriously.
Well, so much for today, and only the Lord knows what will happen tomorrow. Fortunately we have that confidence that God is in control and He is our peace.