Day 14; Wow! We have been on the road for 14 days.
Today, we drove to La Ceiba, Honduras. The road between San Pedro Sula and La Ceiba was amazing! What a treat. For the past couple of days we have been driving some pretty crazy roads, so the smooth, virtually pot hole free road was a real treat!
We met up with Florence from Adventure in Missions at the Pizza Hut on the far side of town.
La Ceiba is a town of about 150,000. The industry of the area is a mix of tourism and fruit/produce export.
One of the main crops here is palm oil. The highways are lined with fields of hundreds of African palms. They pick the pods which are full of kernels and send them off to be pressed to remove the oil. This oil is exported. There are also fields of bananas, pineapples and cocoa trees. It is a lush and clearly fertile land. La Ceiba is right on the Gulf of Honduras and really is a beautiful place. The temperature today was around 31 degrees celcius and it was a "cool" day. We left La Ceiba with Florence and two other women she works with for the 20 minute drive out to El Cacao, the village where the ministry is located. This is a village of about 1,500, where Adventure in Missions has a medical clinic and a housing complex. The ministry has a part-time Honduran doctor and dentist that work in
the clinic each week and a full time nurse practitioner who runs the 
clinic. Not only do they work out of this village, but they go around the area holding clinics in communities who need medical attention.
clinic. Not only do they work out of this village, but they go around the area holding clinics in communities who need medical attention. The village is right on the coast and there is a large lagoon area and mangrove forest where the locals fish.
There is a public school right beside the ministry and they actively partner with the school, offering English classes and doing children's ministry when they have teams. One thing the ministry would like to do is host more teams, but they need help in order to do that. They are also hoping to start a 
vocational school so that the young men in the community can learn a trade and find work. Unemployment is a real problem here. They are involved in many different areas in this community, from building houses, clean water projects, prison ministry,pastoral support and home visitation.
vocational school so that the young men in the community can learn a trade and find work. Unemployment is a real problem here. They are involved in many different areas in this community, from building houses, clean water projects, prison ministry,pastoral support and home visitation.There is much work to be done here, but the labourers are few. That is why we came to see 
this project first hand.
this project first hand. 
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