As with all of the Honduras blog stories, I may miss a fact, or butcher an event – but want to share what I heard. I went to Honduras with Mark Miller. Mark, his wife Elaine, and a group from our church went to Honduras three years ago to help with a Mike Silva Crusade. As part of this Crusade, the helpers were asked to make themselves available to pray with those who might come forward at the invitation. A lady and her two daughters approached Mark & Elaine and told Mark and Elaine that she was dying with cancer, and that the Lord told her to bring her daughters to them to look after her daughters after she passed away. You see, the ladies husband had been in an industrial accident and was unable to work anymore – and support the family anymore. Mark and Elaine were taken back, and didn’t quite know what to do about this, but knew they couldn’t just leave without somehow staying in contact with the lady and her daughters. They have maintained contact, and sent money down regularly since this encounter, but have always wanted to do more. 
Well, the mother did pass away about a year later. The girls, Waldina and Michelle, were left with their dad, two brothers, and maternal grandmother in the home you see in the pictures tied to this blog. A couple months after the mother died, one of her sons was murdered – hanging around the wrong people at the wrong time. About a year later the grandmother also died of a heart attack; she had taken care of raising the remaining girls and their brother. A couple months ago the second son was also murdered, similar circumstances as with the first son. So now, Waldina, Michelle, and their father are left with each other. The father is an emotionally broken man, but when we visited on a Sunday afternoon – was still planning on going to church and worshipping our Lord; not turning his back on the Lord even after having lost a wife, two sons, and a mother-in-law in about two years!
Mark, Mirtza, Alicen took the girls shopping; something he and Elaine agreed they could do while he visited this February. Mark has been very concerned about the girls and their dad. The people who won the house they live in want them to leave. Mark has solicited the help of Alicen to look in after the girls, and with her business background, to perhaps help the girls to start a small business that could help them make ends meet, keep them off the streets. Dana also agreed to help brainstorm about potential places this special family could live, and that perhaps Mark and Elaine could help support as well.
Please keep this family in your prayers; that God would help heal and strengthen the father, help the girls find a small business that they could work to help support the family; that the Lord would hold an increasingly prominent role in all of their lives.
