Tour of Luz y Verdad

By Katie and the 5th and 6th Graders at Luz y Verdad

The fifth and sixth graders at Luz y Verdad have prepared a tour of our school for you. For this project, they learned the words for parts of the school and learned some basic PowerPoint skills. This slideshow is a combination effort by Kelly, Estefany, Dariana and Yeimi (with some editing by Teacher Katie). Enjoy!

And... you're on!

By Katie

If there's one quality it takes to live in Honduras, it's FLEXIBILITY! You never know when you'll be called upon to stand up and lead something. This happens especially in church, and can make the experience a little stressful, especially for well-planned Type A's like myself. We've been doing our best to train our friends to give us a warning, but sometimes that warning is only two minutes or so. Matt gets up and sings songs and prays all the time and I was called on last Sunday to teach Sunday school with no warning. These things get easier all the time as we have more Spanish words to use in each situation, thank goodness.


Here we are at the deacon's retreat in February, where we were called upon to lead a game about one minute before the game was to start. Imagine about 50 people in the crowd staring at us when this picture was taken. After a one minute deliberation we chose Simon Says, which failed miserably because we couldn't remember the names of body parts under the pressure. Then we said "Simon says DANCE", which is a really bad thing in Honduran Christianity. Oops.

The Ladies' Group

By Katie

Recently the ladies at our church formed a group called the "Diaconas" for the purpose of doing fundraisers and using the money for people in the church who need it. I'm the treasurer of the group. I hardly know how to cook Honduran dishes, so it's one way I can be a part of the group.

Yesterday and today we were hard at work making mondongo, tripe (cow stomach) soup. It sounds disgusting, but really is quite tasty. There are over fifty ingredients and we made 100 plates, so it was no small task. More than ten women helped with the project, chopping all kinds of vegetables and cooking the meat and soup over the fire.


This is one of two gigantic pots that we used for the mondongo.

The project was definitely a success in many ways. We made lots of money for our fund and the group is really pulling together to organize things for the church. It's exciting to be a part of the growing vibrancy of La Mora Iglesia Cristiana Reformada!


This pot contains 50 servings of mondongo. The main ingredients are vegetables of every kind, bits of tripe, macaroni, little balls of corn flour and spices, Maggi cubes, tomato paste, salt and sugar.