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Christina Houston

T-26 days

As of today I have 26 days until I get home I’m excited and sad all at the same time. It’s hard to think about not waking up to the sound of chickens and various dogs. I honestly don’t know what it will be like to not eat beans at every meal. It will be even weirder to speak English to everyone.(but to be honest I’ll probably just keep speaking in Spanish). The hardest thing to think about is leaving my kids at the o...

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March update

Dear friends family and everyone else that decides to read this. It feels like it’s been forever sin...

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February update:the midway point

Well it's February now friends. I’ve made it to the halfway point and am a week out from my parents ...

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Just about 4 months in

In a couple of days, I will have officially been in Honduras for 4 months. Over the course of this o...

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Deserts suck

So the last  2 weeks were a bit of a struggle. A lot has happened and honestly I don't even know whe...

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2 months and 2 days

As of last week, we have officially started our full time ministry of working as teachers at the orp...

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One month in(this is a long one guys I had a lot to say)

As of last Monday, I have officially been in Honduras for a month.  So much has happened in the last...

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First Week

I officially survived my first week and 2 days in Honduras and I have to say, it hasn’t been exactly what I thought it would be, but it has been good. It has been filled with lots of adventures, tarantulas, and so many tortilla and egg dinners. I’m getting ahead of myself though, so let me rewind. I started last week with the intention of being a teacher in the village school and then was surprised to find out that m...

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First day

You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts—limbs, organs, cells—but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ. By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and inte...

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"Be Anxious For Nothing"-God

Today is August the 25th and as I type this a close friend of mine is spending her first weekend in ...