Patricia

Today, my dad, Matt and I had to go to the airport for a few minutes to take care of a few things. It is like going into a gohsttown going into the Tegucigalpa airport. It used to always be full of life and various people were always busy making money to feed their families. The President here refuses right now to reopen the airport. Short term mission trips are being rerouted to San Pedro Sula, Managua, Nicaragua or San Salvador, El Salvador. Money that has been set aside to help the poor is being used to pick up and deliver people at various airports.

This is not the worst part. I met Patricia today. She has several young children that she has totake care of. She was telling me all about the last two weeks at the airport and how sad it is. All of the cleaning people, security guards, baggage carriers, money changers, rental car places, and all the other businesses are all out of work. Because fewer people are staying in the hotels or eating at the restaurants near the airports. So many people are hurting in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, especially because of the president trying to close the airport to all flights containing more than 42 passangers. A few hundred people are without work due to the temporary or permanent closure of the Tegucigalpa aiport. If it becomes a permanent closure even more people will lose their jobs.

Please pray to God that the aiport in Tegucigalpa will reopen so that many of the poor people will get their jobs back.