Today is Friday, January 16. Our group has been going two separate directions this week to work on separate projects. The Landscape Architecture studetns have been spending much time with city leaders from Siguatepeche making plans for a new playground to be built. They have been working so hard and literally may be up all night tonight as they finish drawing plans for the project.

Our other crew has been working on a new garden area at La Providencia which is an orphange based in the town as well. It's an amazing story to hear the impct that this orphanage is having on this community. It is great to be serving them.

Some folks on the team found new ways to travel.

Taking a hike around town.

Rest and relaxation.

Team hangout time after a hard days work.

Team hangout time after a hard days work.

The playground in progress.

Working at the site.

More kids enjoying the new equipment. You can see the tire swing in the back. The pods in the front are on springs so kids can bounce up and down on them.

The clothing sale we put on in Orica. We brought lot's of clothing to the church from the U.S. They sell it for extremely cheap prices to people in the area and then use the money for initiatives to better the community.

Typical travel in Orica.

Playing w/ kids at the park.

Overview of the park

Hi All. Sorry that it has taken us so long to update the blog. It's actually been very difficult while we have been here to get on line.
Today, as we looked at weather on line, we saw that it's a high of negative 6 in Madison in comparison to 76 in Siguatepeque. So needless to say, we're very glad to be here.

God has been doing great things in and through our team as we have been here over the last 10 days. We were able to get a tremendous amount of work done on the playground in Orica. All of the equipment is now up and fully functioning. It's hard to describe the emotions we felt as we watched kids playing on the equipment for the first time, smiling ear to ear.

We are now working on projects with the city officials in Siguat and have also been designing outdoor gardens at the clinic in La Providencia, which is an incredible ministry based around an orphanage here in town.

We are all pretty tired and have been stretched greatly, but are excited to see how God continues to use us and teach us in the process.

Janurary 15th Update

The kids and the team enjoying the park

A shot of Teguc on our way to Orica

Welcome to the 2009 Blackhawk CAM/ UW Honduras blog. We are leaving for Honduras Monday early morning January 5th and will be there until the 18th. It will be a great adventure and hopefully through this blog you can join us and get a taste of what we will be experiencing. We are hopeful that God will be doing great things in our lives and we hope that we can be a blessing to those we meet.
Team members: Matt Metzger, Theresa Filarsky, Lindsay Leslie, Megan Kleber, Laura Krumenauer, Kara Longenecker, Lance Millar, Kelsey Moss, Andrew O'Connor, Nathan Sime, Carolyn Sredl, Curt Staats, Anne Rodgers----and our guests 10 UW students and and 2 professors, including Sam Dennis, professor of Landscape architecture at UW.

We will be building a playground in Orica, Honduras and we will be designing parks and playgrounds in Siguatepeque, Honduras---more about that later!