The following is a minute by minute update recorded by Daniel McGrath and William Little when their passports, wallets, shoes, and other things were stolen at a beach, seven hours from the U.S. Embassy in Honduras. This post is dedicated to Judy Ramos.
THURSDAY - LA CEIBA 12:00 PM - Go to beach 3:30 - Backpack stolen - contents: wallets, passports, shoes - Begin walking home 3:45 - Man gives us a ride across river in his boat. Too dangerous to go the other way. 3:50 - Ride gives us a ride in back of truck 4:00 - Dropped off on street. Given 100 Limperas. William gives Lynette his shirt to stop whistling men. 5:00 - Walk to American dudes (approx. 10 mi.) They don't help. Flag police. Wont help. =/ 5:20 - Get money from prostitute (the Rahabs pull through). Bus driver lets us ride free 5:35 - Dropped off at house. Locked out. 5:40 - Neighbor gives cell phone. 5:50 - Dan gets flip flops. William gets shirt. - William gets to use bathroom (finally!) 6:00 - Neighbors (angel) lady take us to police station to file report 8:00 - Angel lady cooks us food. 7 yr old granddaughter teaches us Spanish. =) 10:00 - Lynette's Tia's friends give us internet to cancel credit cards and phone home 11:00 - Tia gives us dinner and lets us stay at her home for the night. 12:00 - Bed (approx. 6' long X 4' wide for both of us)
FRIDAY 8:00 AM - Tia's friend couldn't sleep b/c of us and scheduled appointment at embassy for Monday - Breakfast 8:45 - SDA Mission buys us bus tickets to Tegucigalpa 9:30 - Church lady gives us money to use internet and go to the immigration office 10:00 - William cancels cards. Phone US to fax IDs to Embassy 10:30 - Dan steps in wet concrete [Dan's reaction =/ William's reaction =D =D] 10:40 - Back at immigration office 11:00 - Call Embassy 11:30 - Use taxi money to buy ice cream (must have priorities) 2:00 PM - Neighbor gives ride to bus station (we would not have made it w/o our taxi money) 4:00 - Bus leaves La Ceiba. William Gets sick (poisoned intentionally? We'll never know...) 11:30 - Bus arrives at Tegucigalpa. Lynette's parents pick us up and bring us to their house. 12:00 - Bed
SABBATH William Sick all day. Dan sick occasionally
SUNDAY 5:00 PM - Received money to buy passport pics 5:30 - Pics received 6:00 - Watched Super Bowl at Pizza Hut in Mall in Spanish. Only understand penalties. - Hondurans think we are nuts (23-27 Steelers. ='( Still a morale booster).
MONDAY 7:50 AM - Family we stay with gives us a ride to Embassy 8:15 - Skip by line of 200 and walk right in (great to be an American) 8:30 - Fill out applications for new passports - Allowed to cut another line of people - Free internet :) 9:45 - Interviewed and received money wired from Dad (thanks for the extra). 10:15 - Dan talks to his Dad on the phone. 10:30 - Pay for passports 11:30 - Passports in hand - Embassy calls to get us a ride back to Lynette's. 1:00 PM - Pay back money we borrowed to watch Super Bowl and passport pics
TUESDAY 12:00PM - Go to airport and check in 12:30 - Security doesn't let us in. No entry dates on our passports. duh! 12:35 - Go to immigration 12:50 - Back to security line. 1:00 - Dan walks through metal/explosive detectors. William told to wait. 1:03 - William let through after all the Hispanics (Racist). 1:05 - Walk onto plane 1:10 - Take off. Never have two boys been so happy. 3:48 - Land in Miami 3:55 - Kiss the ground!
Without Bible history, geology can prove nothing. Relics found in the earth do give evidence of a state of things differing in many respects from the present. But the time of their existence can be learned only from the inspired record. It may be innocent to conjecture beyond this, if our suppositions do not contradict the facts found in the sacred Scriptures. But when men leave the word of God, and seek to account for His creative works upon natural principles, they are upon a boundless ocean of uncertainty. Just how God accomplished the work of creation in six literal days, he has never revealed to mortals. His creative works are as incomprehensible as his existence.
A challenge from a Communist editor to Christian workers and believers. "The Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Communist Manifesto." Translated from an editorial in Paix et Liberte and quoted by the Greater Europe Mission, 542 South Dearborn Street, Chicago 5, Illinois.
"The gospel is a much more powerful weapon for the renewal of society than our marxist philosophy. All the same, it is we who will finally beat you. We are only a handful, and you Christians are numbered by the million. But if you remember the story of Gideon and his 300 companions, you will understand why I am right. We Communists do not play with Words.
"We are realists, and seeing that we are determined to achieve our object, we know how to obtain the means. Of our salaries and wages we keep only what is strictly necessary; and we give the rest for propaganda purposes. To this propaganda we also consecrate all our free time and part of our holidays.
"You, however, give only a little time and hardly any money for spreading the gospel of Christ. How can anyone believe in teh supreme value of this gospel if you do not practice it? If you do not spread it? And if you sacrifice neither time nor money for it? Believe me, it is we who will win, for we believe in our Communist message and we are ready to sacrifice everything, even our life, in order that social justice shall triumph. But you people are afraid to soil your hands."
May the Lord cause us to be more dedicated to the Gospel of Christ.
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