Danger

April 14, 2009

Today was kind of one of those gut check type days I guess you would say. I most often have very few complaints of where I live and what life is like but here is one of the stories that make you check your motives.

I go to Abundant Life Church here in La Union typically. The pastor of the church is named Pastor Raul. He has two daughters that go to my school and one is in my class. She is a real sweetheart and a good student. Pastor Raul was driving into town which is about a 2 hour drive through some crazy roads. On their way into town from what it sounds like two guys came out and held up the car and stole it. Now in Tegucigalpa this wouldn’t be an extremely rare occurrence. However, here in La Union this is a huge deal. Things like this don’t happen. Some of the prominent families then decided to take off for a while especially the family who was kidnapped last year for ransom. The people who stole the car also said that if the pastor returned to La Union they would kill his wife and do some other things to horrible to write. This event also appeared to be quite planned so there is some general distrust around. So the pastor fled and is now in what they call hiding. According to most people it is very unlikely that they will be back to this community. This is a safe place overall but the reality of living in a place of poverty is that bad things happen. That is when you have to check your motives.

Please keep this community in your prayers. Regressing back to the way it was a few years ago would make it extremely hard and dangerous to live in.