Think about having to feed your family with $4 a day. The choices you would be forced to make, eating maybe 1 good meal a day. Four dollars is the average amount a Honduran makes per day. Now insert Manna Packs, a vitamin-enriched, vacuum packed meal that makes 4 servings and costs 3.7 cents per pack. Yes you read that right 3.7 cents. A box of Manna Packs costs around $8 and can feed a family for months! Bread For A Hungry World hands out Manna Packs each Saturday to hundreds of families.
We began Day 2 bright and early at 6:30am, ate a quick breakfast because at 7 we were to hand-out Manna Packs, chicken feed, and powdered milk to the hundreds of eager men, women, and children awaiting outside the Daycare doors. With Marin, our Iglesia de Cristo preacher as our guide and instructor, one by one each person filed inside. We scooped feed and handed out packs and milk for hours. As each person walked through the doors we were greeted with open arms and a warm embrace. While each of us were there to serve, we were being loved on, served. After this we walked up with Darrell Crow to the Senior Center and met over two dozen men and women ranging in ages 60-85. Again the minute we walked in, they showed us love. We spent time talking with them, singing songs, and praying together. Spending time with them is a reminder that foundations and legacies are laid by those who come before us. And those several dozen elderly Honduran men and women have done the same in their community of Campamento.
After lunch we went to the area of land provided to Bread for a Hungry World to build 120 block homes. The blocks are made from sand, dirt, rocks, and other earth material and compressed to form a block which weighs anywhere from 12 to 20lbs. Our group for the next 3 hours organized, measured, and separated 55,000 pounds of blocks. We were a well-oiled machine working in unison. It was during this time, we met a 12-year old boy, Manuel. Manuel is working along a dozen grown men, helping to build the block homes. At no point, did I see Manuel discouraged in his living or home situation. It didn't matter his circumstances, whether past or present, Manuel came to the hill to work. And so did we because the glory was not for me, Manuel, or anyone else but God. These homes are leaving a legacy that will last decades.
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