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Connect-Missions Log

Midnight, January 5th, 2009: A dozen Blackhawk college students (and some old people) crammed into cars across Madison to begin their freezing nighttime journey to Chicago, Illinois. There they would meet up with a dozen more of their peers (and more old people) from the UW - Madison Landscape architecture team and escape the Midwestern frost and head to the steamy jungles on Latin America. There they would embark on a two-week adventure known as Blackhawk CAM/UW Landscape Architecture Honduras Trip '09 (or BCUWAHT, for short). Their first stop would be Orica, Honduras, a small rural town in the hills of Honduras. There they were greeted by Pastor Andres (whow!), pastor of Alpha y Omega Church, a longtime ministry partner of Blackhawk. Here the team worked diligently on the ongoing park project in the community. Shoveling, cement mixing, motorcycle rides, and Coke in a bag are all the order of the day. The team also had the opportunity to bond with the Orican community, especially the children, whether they liked it or not. The people were so open and friendly, it's hard to not come away from the trip with a new friend. Also, there were some great new opportunities in Siguatepeque, a slightly larger city in Honduras and the home of our translators, the Vegas. Here the LA team divided their time between redesigning the city's main park and the development of a courtyard in a clinic at an orphanage just outside the city limits (you can find out more here: http://providenceworldministries.org/. Highly recommended). Others found themselves spread out between the two sites or simply enjoying the local color. The close proximity with other team members, nightly debriefings and optional bible studies helps to form a tight community and foster lasting relationships between team members. The spiritually diverse nature of the trip offers a unique and challenging opportunity to share with others that isn't found on most mission trips. Sadly, the two weeks past rather quickly, all good things must come to an end eventually, but no one walked empty-handed, either with wickedly sharp machetes, bags of delicious coffee, footlong Honduran cigars, or a new friendship or two.