10,000 Children

I read in an article the other day that there is approximately 10,000 children in Honduras alone that are exploited in the commercial sex trade.  These innocent children are being exploited in ways we cannot imagine.  It is sad that God commands us to take care of widows and orphans, but in this harsh world, instead people treat children as objects they can buy for their own sick pleasures.  Please pray for children such as these and the ones in similar conditions all over the world.  Pray that God will bring people to help free the children from this way of life.  Also, pray that both the children and the people buying and selling them in the sex trade will come to know God and see that HIS way is much better.

Today, my heart is very heavy, as it has been for several days now.  For the past two weeks, it has rained pretty much non-stop in Honduras.  The tropical depression has ravished this country.  Countless homes are destroyed or damaged from the flooding.  Imagine not having much in the first place and losing every bit of that in storms.  

Small creeks became rivers that became horrible to cross.  Farmlands have been ruined.  Many Hondurans depend on their crops to provide their families with their income, and now they have lost the ability to do that.  Also, because they are farmers, most of their food came from their own crop.  Now, the farmers and their families will starve.

During the heaviest part of the rains, the newspapers claimed that the level of hunger people faced was far more life-threatening than any of the risks they would have to take to go for food.  These rains caused landslides.  Many of the main roads have been washed out.  It is now a great challenge to drive on some of the roads that lead to towns near Tegucigalpa because of the destruction.

I think of people all over Honduras, especially Tegucigalpa, that I know, and my heart cries out for them.  I close my eyes, and I see the faces of people I love in Los Pinos, San Miguel, Nueva Oriental, Villa Nueva, and many other places.  I think of how water washes through most of their houses when only a small rain comes through.  I imagine that they have been living in mud the last two weeks without a single dry object in their house.  I picture the lady who lives in the rain gutter on the road between Loarke and Santa Ana.  She and her young daughter have probably just been doing their best to stay dry.  

Words can never begin to express the suffering that is happening right now in Honduras.  For more information and pictures go to my mom's blog or to www.hondurasthisweek.com .  Please pray for this country.  Pray also that God will show you how you can help.