On Saturday, I will be flying to Honduras with 31 other team members for a dental/medical mission trip. We will be traveling to different villages every day, helping the people with problems with their teeth, eyes, or just their overall health. We’ve been planning this trip for close to nine months now, and I think I can speak on behalf of everyone when I say this: we can hardly contain our excitement.
I’m excited to go back for many reasons, but the thing I’m looking forward to the most is meeting Milca Vaneges. She is the daughter of Pastor Monolo and Roxana, the pastor and his wife of our sister church, La Ceibita. I met her first when she was in the womb, about two months before she was born in 2010. Our team had a baby shower for Roxana, and I’ve said that I’ve loved Milca ever since. Ever since then, other teams have gone down and met her, held her, and given her lots of love and hugs, but now I get the chance to finally meet her face to face. I get to love on the little girl I’ve been praying for since before she was alive, and tell her face-to-face, te quiero, which means “I love you.”
Next week, I ask that you pray for our team as we go into some of the most impoverished villages, and try to bring hope to the people, and pray that we take the spotlights off of ourselves and focus our hearts on the people we’re serving, because that’s when God will really be able to use us.
—Jenna Olson
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