Celebrating Honduran Father's Day...

In Honduras, Father's Day is March 19.  We decided to celebrate by having a school talent show honoring fathers, with the proceeds going toward our high school kids, who were raising money to go to the Central American Student Convention the following week.  The holiday itself was on Monday, but we had the talent show on Thursday evening.  That worked well for the missions team that was here with us, as Thursday was the last day of medical clinics and the team did not need to spend the evening preparing for the next day.

The high school kids had food and drink for sale and two of our seniors were the emcees.

Alejandro and Eliany did a great job as emcees for the evening.

Starting with the 3-year-old pre-kinder class, each of the grades, through 8th grade, presented a song, a skit, a poem, etc..  Here are just a few of the many pictures I took that evening.

Here are the 3-year-olds.

These are some of the 4-year-old girls in our kinder class.

The prepa boys were dressed in their daddy's shirts, pants, and even shoes.

Jonathan, surrounded by some of the angels in his third grade class.

The 8th graders presented a human video showing what happens when we "touch" sin.

It was a great night.  Hundreds of parents and family members showed up to support their kids.  And the high school kids did an awesome job of planning, directing, hosting, and making sure that everyone had fun.

After the show was over, we got the Center cleaned up and things put away just in time.  Just in time for a power failure!  The Michigan team was getting to experience part of our normal life that week: vehicle problems, schedule changes, power failures...  We all congregated out on the courts, enjoying a cooling breeze and even just a few drops of rain.  And laugh, lots of laughs.

A short time later, the power came back on and everyone started migrating toward their rooms to get that  last little bit of packing done.  The power had been out for just a bit more than a half hour.  Heck, that's hardly even worth mentioning.