In 36 days the first short-term mission team of the summer arrives. This summer we will host 15 mission teams from all over the U.S. This year, for the first time, we will host two short-term mission teams simultaneously. All those mission teams will sleep in the dorm facility on the site of our downtown ministry center.
We are racing to get the second floor of the dorms completed so the teams have a place to sleep and eat on site. We are confident the dorms will be livable by the time the first teams arrive. This week and next we have nearly doubled the number of Honduran 
workers to get it all done.
Our regular weekly workers are laboring hard to get the bunk beds completed for the second floor. Each of the four dorm rooms will be able to sleep 10 missionaries simultaneously for a possible total of 40 at one time. The guys are cutting and hammering the wood and building the bunks in each room. Ten new bunk beds in all.
A welder and a team of window installers have been hired to fabricate and install all the internal doors and windows. The doors 
to each room consist of a solid metal door and a second door to add security and keep mosquitoes out. The windows have mosquito screens, external wrought iron for security and glass. This dormitory will be a safe and comfortable facility for the visitors.
Before the teams come we still have to install ceiling fans, toilets, an oven, and all electric outlets. We have to build or purchase tables and benches for the onsite dinning hall. It looks like will be done with plenty of time to spare.
with projects. Each summer we use those teams to help us build houses for the poorest families in Armenia Bonito. Our goal this summer is to build brand new homes for the three most needy families in Armenia Bonito.
Each house we looked at was no more then a shack of sticks or scrap metal. They have dirt floors and often have families of four or five sleeping in one room together. Some have no running water or electricity.
teams about a month per house.
The first of 17 short-term mission teams arrives in Honduras on June 2nd. We have just over two months to finish the upstairs sleeping quarters. These two new dorm rooms have tile and the bathrooms are being finished. We still lack paint, bunk beds, internal doors, glass for the windows, toilets and ceiling fans.
evening breeze. This third floor area will be covered and have access to protected outlets and its own secure wifi signal. There will be no walls to allow the breeze to blow through, but there will be a tin roof to protect from the rains.
home of a church, a homeless kids drop-in center, a high school, a seminary and a medical clinic.
Monday began with a medical clinic in the community of La Fe. Erin, the 
The guys from Manor had given us some Spanish/English flashcards. Those came in handy as we reviewed colors, clothes and body parts. At the end of class each of the kids took their oral exam by going over vocabulary and reading a line from the book of John.
worked alongside our Honduran employees at our ministry center in La Isla. They worked on the floors of our soon to be church, kitchen and StreetChild center. Lots of dirt was shoveled, moved and packed to create a solid foundation for the floor.
catechism questions. The guys from Manor helped quiz the kids. This was a special day. The kids who had attended 6 of 8 Kids Club classes and had memorized the verses and questions (19 kids in all) received recognition, a certificate, a gift and a plate of food.