Honduras Posts

This is where we will archive our older blog posts related to our time in Honduras.

Hurricane Eta update

Marinajo and I are in Denver caring for my brother in law Archie.  We were not in Honduras this last week as hurricane Eta passed

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Photo Update July 2020

Hey all! Here’s a quick photo-update on what has been keeping us busy during the Covid-19 outbreak.  Lots of behind the scene logistics, planning, receiving

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Trusting Christ

“How are you guys doing down there?”  It is a question we get asked about 5 times a day right now via email, FB, or

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Answered Prayers

Pray and Praise Update “THANK YOU for your prayers!” At the end of January, we posted a blog post in which we asked for prayer. 

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Back to School!

We are so excited to tell you about this! Our 2019 furlough was undoubtedly the most profitable time away we have ever had.  One of

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Making the need known.

We are writing to let you know about a change in our financial situation and some upcoming needs that we are praying about.  As most

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Broken heart for the victims.

[vc_row 0=””][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=””] The recent articles by the Houston Chronicle have broken my heart for the victims of abuses that were revealed as part of

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Ben’s Baptism

[vc_row 0=””][vc_column][vc_column_text 0=””] This was, as they say, the moment parent’s pray for. I just didn’t know it yet. The text came from Ben saying,

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Merry Christmas 2018!

We wanted to share a few Christmas photos with those of you who we love and could not be with. Marinajo (along with lots of

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2018 Ministry Milestones!

2018 was another blessed and eventful year. We celebrated our 10th anniversary of being here full time at Loma de Luz! We saw the opening

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Fall 2018 Highlights!

The annual fall “march of teams” to Loma de Luz, several of which we sponsor every year. Our dear friends from Jacksonville Presbyterian Church in

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Summer 2018 highlights

New cabinets! (and lots of outdoor cooking while said new cabinets were being built / installed out of concrete as the old ones had been

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Where I Get to be Me

Today was a great day. Today I enjoyed myself. Today I got to be me in so many different ways. One story I’d like to

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Ben’s Quest

Dear Family and Friends, I have recently been accepted to a four-week intensive camp, called Quest. Quest, is a camp for young men who want

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Making Connections

The past few weeks have been quite busy and eventful to the Glory of God!!! Two weeks ago we welcomed Dr. David Moon, an Optician,

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Es La Vida…

“How are you doing with all of this, son?” Dave asked Ben. It was a nice Caribbean afternoon in January as we sat down to

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A Sight For Sore Eyes

Rio Esteban after days of rain. Dr. Richard Reichert and his wife, Jill, comprise our visiting Ophthalmologist team. Their third trip to Loma de Luz

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Fields Family Furlough 2015 – Week 2

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Readers and Cheaters Galore!

 Overwhelming! Over-flowing! Filled to the brim!  These words describe both the condition of my heart and the current inventory of reading glasses in the Eyeglass

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Identity Crises

Majesty and Intimacy Sitting on a porch at a hotel in the mountains of Honduras I watched the drizzling rain gently touch the banana leaves

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Identity Crises

Sitting on a porch at a hotel in the mountains of Honduras I watched the drizzling rain gently touch the banana leaves in the garden,

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2011 Honduras MK Camp

This is what Mariah, Benny, and some 60 other MK kids and counselors were up to last week. Many thanks to all of the counselors

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Our Story

A Call to Missions I wrote extensively on this topic in the May 2008 entry titled “Called?” on this blog if anyone would care to read

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Baby Miguel

By all accounts, baby Miguel looked to be a hopeless case.  Nine days old and septic (from pneumonia), his parents had walked some five hours

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God’s Protection

My friend Terry and I were finishing up a long Saturday in La Ceiba.  We were fueling the truck just before leaving town for the

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My sissy.

Just a few days after Bairon’s vacation, it was off to San Pedro Sula to pick up my sister, Kathy, at the airport.  We spent

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Iron overdose / poisoning.

Thursday afternoon a two year old boy came into the hospital after having eaten “a package” of his mom’s iron pills.  It didn’t take long

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Kidnapping

In a scene that is all too familiar here in Central America,  an important businesswoman was kidnapped in La Ceiba (about an hour away) and

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Scorching Hot!

The last two weeks of April were quite possibly the hottest two and half weeks of my life.  It was absolutely scorching here.  We struggled

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Bairon’s Vacation.

Do you ever “wake up” and realize that the last few weeks have just been a blur?  It seems as if I’ve been in one

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You were right Jerry

You’ll hold children that are dying……..he said to me and let the weight of it hang in the air for a minute before moving on. 

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Don Clementino

There are days when living here just feels like you live in a dream land. You shake your head and say “how did we get

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Can’t sleep.

Can’t sleep tonight – so I thought I’d try and write down some brief notes about the past couple of weeks: Luis is a patient

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Two Videos

My friend Rimas posted these two videos on his blog and I want to link to them here as I agree with him completely: video

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New Ultrasound! Yeah!

The following note came from Dr. Leon Greene, the cardiologist here at Loma de Luz. For years, the hospital has been needing a good ultrasound

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The Farm Plan

The following was stolen shamelessly from Josh and Linzy Browning. Thank you two for putting together such a nice story on our Hospital Farm Plan!

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Best lice ever!

Top(Jan 27) Emin is better. That’s what is important about this story. A little boy came into the hospital yesterday with a snake bite on

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Snakee

We’ve know this moment was coming. We knew that we were moving to the jungle and snake encounters were to some extent unavoidable. It is

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Dear Levi

Dear Levi, I thought I would take this occasion of your 21st birthday to tell you a few things about how much I love you

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Miracle ˈmir-i-kəl

Here’s what Webster says about the word miracle: “An extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs” On Thursday July 30th 2009, I got to

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Honduras’ non-coup

It is amazing to me how powerful the media is in the USA. We – her citizens – have forgotten how to think, I think,

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Home safely

Thanks to God for safe travels today. We had a flat tire, but an otherwise uneventful day – which is saying a lot give the

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A voice of reason.

Preventing a Honduran Bloodbath This article (link above) is the one of the clearest voices of reason that I have heard in the last week.

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Mariah’s Baptism

This is just a very quick note to let you know that Mariah will be baptized tomorrow at the Easter Sunrise service (yes, on the

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Costa Rica

In the last two segments (The Breakers and Visa Trip), I’ve written about stress – the stress of not knowing what in the world we

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Visa Trip!

We’ve known that we would have to leave Honduras every 90 days, for visa requirements, for quite awhile now. We’ve planned for it. We put

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The breakers

If you are really quiet here at night you can hear the surf as it comes in and breaks up on the reef near the

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Mumbai

I confess that I haven’t really paid attention to what happened in Mumbai last week. We were in Balfate getting stuck in rivers (and swimming

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Crossing the plancha

The sensation was one of being inside a capsule. I’ve driven my truck into the plancha a few times now and never really gotten a

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How was your Monday?

One of the things that we have prayed for is the opportunity to see how different life is here outside of the United States. Today,

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Worlds away.

Some of you might have read this post in which I wrote, less than eight weeks ago, how dry it was here. I called it

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Manos Para El Mundo

** Note, I haven’t been able to post this for a couple of days. The storm at the hospital kind of overshadowed everything the last

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Update #2

Friday – 10/31 – Another strong day of rain here in La Ceiba. Localized street flooding, but that is all so far. We are hearing

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Update #1

It is now Thursday evening (10/30) and as nearly as we can tell, our friends at Loma De Luz are fairing pretty well in the

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In Awe and Wonder of God

Perhaps you remember my great adventure and great privilege of being able to help drive a very sick young girl to the hospital in San

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Hello from Honduras!

Hello dear friends and family. This is my first blog post after moving to Honduras. It is now Tuesday Oct 21st and that means that

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Of rocks and rapids

If Christianity were to be compared to a river, many Christians would be standing ankle deep in it. They enjoy the exhilaration of being in

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Day 6 – 8/23

During Friday night’s dinner, we received a call on the HAM radio from John and Penny Alden (also missionaries here at Loma De Luz) asking

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Day 5 – 8/22

Thank God for a normal day! Ha! Sitting around working on computers seems like such a wonderful break from all of the emotion of the

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Day 4 – 8/21/08

Yesterday my prayer was that God wouldn’t let me forget the lessons of the day. God must’ve heard that prayer because he reinforced them in

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Day 3 – 8/20/08

I keep a Microsoft Word document called “today” that I write my blog in each day when I am on these trips. As I begin

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Day 2 – 8/19/08

“As I walked into the Café Americana (Honduran version of Starbucks), a little boy walked up to me and showed me a picture of his

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Day 1 – 8/18/08

We are here, safe and sound, thanks be to the Lord. Dad and I have spent a long two days traveling to get here. We

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Gifts

As Marinajo and I prepare to go to Honduras, we believe that we will have expenses that we will need help with associated with the

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You are free in our time to say that God does not exist; you are free to say that He exists and is evil; you

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Here in Your Presence

Here are the words to one of the worship songs that we sang at Christ Community Church tonight: Found in Your hands, fullness of joyEvery

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Called?

As I talk with various people about being “called” to Honduras as missionaries, I suppose one question that needs to be addressed is this: “what

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Slideshow!

Here’s a slideshow of our Honduras pictures. Feel free to use this instead of the link below if it is easier for you just to

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We’ve got pictures!

Honduras trip May 2008 Click on this picture and you’ll be taken to the “web album”. Next, just click on “Slideshow” in the upper left

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Day 12 – May 23

How to make toast at Loma De Luz:First, push the lever down on the toaster for about 10-15 seconds to heat things up a bit

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Day 11 – May 22

It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write today’s blog. A tornado has hit our home town of Windsor Colorado and

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Day 10 – May 21

Wednesday May 21 –Back in 2000, I laid down a dream that God had let me hold onto for about 10 years and resigned from

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Day 9 – May 20

I’ll start today’s entry with two stories from the hospital: A man came in today with three bullets in his head. He had been shot

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Day 8 – May 19

Monday May 19th. One thing about living in the campo (roughly translated “in the country”) is that you have to “go to town” to get

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Day 7 – May 18

Sunday May 18. We went to Sunday school and a small worship service here at the hospital. We had lunch with Margo Concepcion and her

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Day 6 – May 17

Saturday May 16 was another exhausting, eventful, beautiful day. You can’t sleep in here – it is too hot and there is too much activity

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Day 5 – May 16

Friday May 16 – things are starting to settle down into a little bit more of a routine for us. One of the biggest blessing

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What are you looking for?

Marinajo asked me an interesting question this morning. “What negatives have you seen so far?” After thinking for a minute, I answered that I wasn’t

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Honduras: Beginings

We leave for our first trip to Honduras Monday, May 12th. My hope is to be able to “blog” daily down there so that people

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Hello and welcome!

Hello and welcome! At the encouragement of a friend (thank you Jay), I am starting a blog. For the uninitiated, a blog is really just

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