Boom!

Me, Mariela, and a ron-ron on my right shoulder

Boom!  Sometimes I say "Boom!" when something awesome happens.  I just said it.  So if A=B and B=C.....you guessed it....awesomeness has occured.  It took about 3 days for people to volunteer to get all of my girls at the farm birthday sneakers this year.  In fact, I've had several people contact me wanting to get shoes, and I've had to tell them we can't.  We're out of feet!  Boom!  Thats awesome.  I'll keep everybody posted, because theres always a chance that more little girls will call PTC their home in the next year, and I might need some birthday-buying volunteers.  But for now, we're all covered.  About 200 happy toes will have warm places to do whatever happy toes do at The Farm.  Thank you for volunteering and for your support of my girls. 

Anita and Rosy dropping me off at the airport

I've also had several people contact me wanting to know about donating gently used shoes.  All systems go here.  Folks out in our neck of the woods in Honduras walk alot.  Even if we don't use some shoes at the farm with our girls, PTC has the opportunity to minster to the community whenever we have supplies.  So, if you've got shoes, send them in.  Like I said, we've got alot of extra luggage, and I'll make sure they go to a good cause and further the name of Christ.

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I also just got the last of my pictures from the first half of this year up.  It took a really long time.  I work 60 hour weeks while I'm home, and so I've had to do my picture uploading in spurts around work and sleeping.  But I'm finally done.  Go check them out if you haven't.  You'll see some really pretty faces.  Well, not only mine, but alot of the girls down at The Farm as well.  Looking at the pictures, I realized that my beard ruined alot of pictures that would otherwise have been wonderful.  Maybe in the future, I'll take advice from the girls when they tell me 80 times a day, "Mr. Ben, cut your beard!"

If The Shoe Fits..... send it to my girls as a birthday present

How toe socks and crocs should be worn

     So lets have another go at this “blog” ordeal.  I’ve taken a bit of a vacation from bloggery.  My time in Honduras this year has been so extremely jam packed, I haven’t had time to write anything down.  This year I have facilitated in the birth of three different species of animals, fought forest/mountain fires for several days on end with our neighboring Hondurans, killed and helped clean and cook an Easter hog, citizen-arrested an off-duty police officer, bought a motorcycle, wrecked a motorcycle, y apprende mucho espanol.  Its been eventful, but I was too busy doing to record most of it.  I didn’t really think too many people outside of my family and close friends were following this, so I didn’t worry too much about keeping it going.  One of the teams that visited told me that they knew me from my blog.  I’m going to give it another go during the next few months (or longer).  I know many of you are very connected with our ministry, our missions, and especially our girls.  I hope this keeps the door way open for GREATLY needed prayers and encouragement.

Lucy jumping out of her shoes

But for real, I have a purpose for this blog.  That purpose is foot apparel.  Now, I know what you’re thinking….”foot apparel?  Nobody says that anymore Ben.  Use normal lingidy or I’m out of here.”  So fine, lets say “shoes”.  I have shoes.  If you’re reading this, you probably have some nice kicks too, don’t you?  You know who doesn’t have a nice pair of sneakers?  My girls in Honduras.  See, here’s my dilemma.  I’m poor.  Yet, even poor people can buy birthday presents for little girls in Honduras.  100 Limpira (or the equivalent of 5 dollars) goes a long ways in Honduras.  I messed up once and bought one of my girls a pair of Nikes.  Not a very expensive pair, but a $25 pair of tennis shoes.  She loves them.  So do all the girls at the farm.  Now, poor, broke Ben doesn’t have money to buy all my girls a pair of decent shoes (something that won’t fall apart after one month).  But, I know a lot of folks who aren’t so broke.  You know, people who own houses and cars and support their families and all that stuff I don’t have money for.  You know, people like YOU!

Here is my plan.  My church is going to Honduras the last two weeks of July.  You can take 2 bags weighing up to 50 lbs on a delta international flight.  I pack for 3 months in one 50 lbs bag.  That means, everybody should have one extra, potentially empty bag full of space for things.  Maybe 30 bags in all.  Would anybody like to send any of my girls a decent pair of shoes for their birthday?  Nobody has to go crazy, but the stuff that I can afford to buy them will not last very long at all.  A $25 pair of nikes or converse or any brand shoe from here would be a killer (yet extremely practical) birthday present for one of my girls.  I’m not sure this is unreasonable.  It’s the stuff parents do for their kids here in America, right?  So think about it.  I’m going to leave a list of birthdays of all the girls, and more importantly shoe sizes for every single one of my girls.  Now if you decide that this sounds like a baller idea, let me know.  I’ll cross the girl off the list so we’ll know who is left.  I’ll let you know where you can send the shoes so they get put in bags that are going to Honduras.  I’ll even advise you to put a card and a picture of yourself in the box so that my girls can know who cared about them enough to get them an awesome birthday present that they’ll love almost as much as the people who sent them. 

Carina kicking up some dirt

If anybody wants to help my girls out with this, you can contact me on here, facebook, at Bheath09@gmail.com, or at 770-616-6673.  I’ll be in the states until July 18, so feel free to contact me.  The list starts with the upcoming birthdays first.  Children obviously grow, so we might have to plan for some of the birthdays months down the road and make sure these sizes will still be accurate then.

Carina-   *Covered         August 7 -            Shoe Size= girls 6

Neli-       *Covered         August 12-           Shoe Size= womens 6.5

Rosy-      *Covered        August 30-           Shoe Size= womens 6.5

Mary-     *Covered         September 10-    Shoe Size= childrens 3.5 – 4

Maria Elena  *Covered   September 25-     Shoe Size=  childrens 2

Roxana        *covered     September 27-      Shoe size= womens 6.5

Yensy     *Covered        October 27-         Shoe Size= childrens 3.5- 4

Cinthia     *Covered       November 12       Shoe Size= womens 8.5

Lucy        *Covered       December 24       Shoe Size= womens 6 (childrens 3.5-4)

Alicia       *Covered       December 31       Shoe Size= childrens 3.5-4

Brenda    *Covered       February 9            Shoe Size= womens 6.5

Sonia       *covered        February 27          Shoe Size= womens 8.5

Paola       *covered       March 12             Shoe Size= Childrens 2

Lizzy          *covered     March 15              Shoe Size= Womens 6.5

Stefania   *covered      March 26              Shoe Size= Womens 5

Ana         *Covered      March 31              Shoe Size= Womens 6.5

Katy        *Covered      April 10                 Shoe Size= childrens 3-4

Zelaya    *covered         april 18                 Shoe Size= childrens 2

Angela     *Covered      April 27                 Shoe Size= womens 6.5

Gabby     *Covered      April 27                 Shoe Size= womens 5

Gabby is way too focused to worry about propper foot wear