When the opportunity came to accompany the group from OSU this year we were thrilled! We prepared several sewing related activities to share with a variety of ages… On our first day we worked with Norma’s sewing classes and Myrna’s children’s class… On Tuesday Nicolas took Susan, Karen and me, along with our translators, to a nearby public school… We had burlap sewing activities for about 45 students... My daughters performed a skit about being stuck in sin. I shared a message about how we can get stuck in sin, fear, anger or pain; and how Jesus can rescue us…
Afterwards the girls decorated personal information pages and we took pictures to match each one of them with an e-mail pen pal. The engineering education team conducted a water filtration experiment with the boys. Then Nicolas suggested we visit the worksite to show the students the water filters built by the EWB team.
In addition to our time with the people in Honduras, the girls and I were able to get to know the OSU students much more personally. It was the first time for most of the students to hear the testimony of God’s grace toward our family in the face of the loss of our son. I had many individuals share personal testimonies with me. I was encouraged to hear so many of them express a desire to serve the Lord, particularly through using their engineering training.
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen.”
- Ephesians 3:20, 21