Life goes on now matter how busy we are! Last week we
had quite a few adventures. We started the week with
emergency trip to North Georgia. David and some friends
had gone tubing in N GA and the car keys slipped off of
the hook that was attached to his bathing suit. The keys
were lost in the bottom of the river. Mark went and got
them that night but the next day after David made a trip
to the car dealership (these new fangled key codes and
computer chips) Sarah and I made a round trip to take
him back up to get the car. It took almost the whole day.

Later in the week I went by to check one of the young
Mom's who has been having some medical issues. I took
her some medicine with instructions on how to take it all.
I also made more calls on churches introducing myself and
seeing if we could get school supplies for the children at
the missions. So far only 2 churches have said they could
probably help.

On Thursday, one of our friends a homeschooling Mom of 9
children, former member at First Baptist Atlanta, died
suddenly of a heart attack. She was 51 years old. Mark
actually has known her for a very long time
because they went to school at Woodward Academy together.
Today, Leah, Deborah, and I attended the funeral. Sonja
was always an encouragement to me on raising a large family
and homeschooling. We were also both Nurses.

Sunday we had a Honduras team meeting. Time is getting
close only 4 weeks so we have alot of things to get
finalized. I found out that we will be staying in a small
town called Gracias which is about a 4 1/2 hour ride from
San Pedro Sula where we will land. Everyday we will ride up
into the mountains to work with an indigenous people
group. The ride up the mountain will be about an hour one
way. The church on the mountain has no electricity so we
may experience some real culture shock. It will be very
remote.

Tonight we went to Chamblee to Azalea Place Apartments. Mark
played a little basketball with some of the boys. We went
and visited with a new family from Bangladesh. They are
related to the family that we have been working with who
just moved. We had a great visit. I think the Mom who is a
sister of the Mom I have been teaching would love for me to
teach her now! When I introduced myself and said, I am Cathy,
she said, "I know." They have been expecting me to come. I
wanted to give everyone a chance to get moved around. They
have moved into the sister's apartment when the sister moved
to Macon. This whole family is so sweet and has become like
family to us,. It will be a pleasure to get to know another
one of the sister's!

Tonight we ate dinner with our Ukrainian friends.
They had a friend visiting them from Germany too.
We had a wonderful meal and fellowship. Sarah made
a new friend. What a duzhe dobre(very good) evening.

Leah and Deborah were baptized today after church.
Many of their friends and of course family were
there to support them.

Deborah and I have been out all day visiting Baptist
churches. We went to 7 churches introducing ourselves
and trying to get the churches involved in local
missions. I met some really nice people and had a few
great conversations. I even was surprised to see a few
people I knew at some of the churches. It was a good
but tiring day. This must be what salesmen go through.

Leah and I got up and went to Clarkston today.
First we went over to the apartment to see the
children. A team from North Carolina is here this
week doing a Vacation Bible School with them. I
told the girls that they had to dance for their lunch.
We left there and went to check on an African Mom
who is having some trouble. Hopefully we got a
few things taken care of for her.

We had Benjamin today. I was able to catch up on paper
work type stuff and to start doing some lesson plans
for school for Leah and Deborah.

I have been trying hard to stay ahead because of the
Honduras mission trip. Yes, we are going. The
region that we are going to is stable. The city we are
flying into is not where the military is at. Once we
are in the country we are going into a remote mountain
region. Everything should be fine there. We have a great
team and we are meeting weekly now since we leave in only
45 days from today. I always like to have the house in
order before I go. It is especially important for me this
time since I am going later in the year and it will be
time for school to start back.

Some people have expressed concern over the fact that I am
going on a short term mission trip and doing missions as a
job. I do not feel that when God called me to work with
North American Mission Board that He ask me to stop doing
short term trips. I believe that everyone should do ALL
that God has called them to do!! I believe that being
involved in short term missions continues to allow me the
opportunity to broaden my world perspective. It allows me
to see cultures first hand of people that I work with, to
understand where they are coming from when they come to
America. It allows me to be immersed in the culture and
helps me to learn their language. I prayed alot about my
decision to go on a trip this year. At first, I declined
several trips, one going back to Ukraine- a place where I
feel I have built relationships and have "family." When
the opportunity came up for me to go on a 1 week trip to
Honduras I prayed about what to do. I felt God's calling
to go. Many of the families that we work with in Chamblee
are from Honduras. I knew it would be a shorter, less
expensive trip, and I thought it would be a real God given
opportunity for me to see where some of "my families"
come from and learn about their country and serve in their
country.

My desire in all that I do is to be obedient to what God
has ask of me knowing that one day I will stand before Him
and give an account of my life to Him and what He ask of
me!