The Aldens: Aprovechando el Tiempo- Making the most of the time! Nov. 3 2013

Arrived Honduras for a 2 1/2 week visit last Wednesday. We've had a delightful few days full of visits to mainly Honduran friends and staff, Sensing an urgency to share deeply and without much preamble amongst Hondurans we know and have loved. Some that have at one time seemed to have walked with the Lord and are either backslidden or were never saved. The Lord has given us some rich visits, one on top of the other. Lunch one place, another visit, then supper in another home, all deep and rich. The schedule began filling on arrival. Trying for 1:1 visits with staff and church folk, as most involve deep stuff. 1 staff nurse's husband has been murdererd since we last saw her. One student has lost her gran (who was her mom). A church member has left his many kids and wife for another "christian" woman...brazenly being seen with her in the village. Their kids go to school together. Heavy stuff. Hurting hearts.
The Lord arranged for a former assistant of John's to be back in the area for her second baby- someone he loved like his own. We got to take she and the baby (and kin!) home to the campo between church and a lunch invite today- great joy for John. And that birth will bring other family back to the rural village so we will see some unexpected people from our past. God is good. Without Him bringing these people home, we'd never have had time to see them all!