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Ten Ways to Remember Honduras (and Fifteen More!)

Tresia J., the Office Manager at Heart to Honduras responded to our request for ways to remember Honduras after you return.  Taking a cold shower does not seem to be on this list, nor is getting a rooster....

1. Turn out the lights in your house and spend an evening just using candles.

2. Go to a rural area and spend some time walking among the trees, rivers, and streams.  Listen to the birds and watch for nature’s little surprises. As you walk, reflect on your time in Honduras.
3. If the city lights don’t interfere too much, look into the heavens at the moon and stars.
4. Perhaps you have found as we have that Honduras causes one to look upward to God, inward in reflection, outward to the needs of our fellow human beings, but not downward to the things of this world.
5. Begin giving regularly to missions, even if it’s only a dollar a month. As you do this, your giving will become a habit and your faith will grow. Let your giving be based on faith alone, deciding what to give and then allowing God to provide it. This is what many call a “faith promise”.
6. Put a picture of a Honduran child, a pastor, or Miguel and his family on your mirror or refrigerator to remind you of Honduras.
7. Keep a journal of your Honduran experience and return frequently to review the thoughts you’ve written.
8. Learn Spanish.
9. Plan a weekly “meal of remembrance,” not eating and giving the money you’ve saved to missions.
10. Study and practice praying the prayers of the Apostle Paul-because Paul’s prayers come from a missionary’s heart.
11. Unplug the television, or at least cut back on your viewing. Consider going on a “television fast”. Several have done this after visiting Honduras, and can’t describe the cleansing effect it has had in their lives.
12. The next time you visit Taco Bell, order a tortilla with beans. As you say your blessing, include a prayer for needy in Honduras.
13. Subscribe to the English Version of Honduras This Week. This newspaper is printed in Tegucigalpa and can be mailed to your home. Write and send a check or international money order of $25.00/ 6 mo. or $48.00/yr. to: Honduras This Week, PO Box 1312, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, CA.
14. Become a more grateful person. Memorize Psalm 100 and pray it often during your times of meditation.
15. Study Paul’s three missionary journeys, then reflect on your missionary journey to Honduras. How were they similar? How were they different?
16. De-accumulate.
17. Befriend a poor person in the States. Become personally involved rather that just writing a check and putting it in the offering plate on Sunday. It is often said that twenty percent of the people in the church do eighty percent of the work. Too many of us substitute giving for living, and creeds for deeds.
18. Check out what God’s Word has to say about such things as justice, the poor, simplicity, compassion, etc.
19. Ask God to help you be “content in all things”. Paul said we have food and clothing, we will be content…”
20. Read the biography-dedicated missions such as Jim Elliot, Hudson Taylor, C.T. Studd and Stanley Jones.
21. Set up a savings account or CD and donate the interest to missions.
22. Serve rice and beans for a meal at your house.
23. Use a hoe rather than a root tiller to cultivate a garden.  Work around your house with a machete rather than a chain say or weed eater.  Notice how much time and energy you expend as compared to using our high tech machines time and energy you expend as compared to using out high tech machines and tools.
24. Rise early some morning, put on a pot of coffee, and pray. This is how many believing Hondurans begin their day.
25. Wear the same clothes all week.

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Ten Ways to Remember Dayton While You Are in Honduras

Do you get homesick easily?  Here are some ways to help you out!

1. Sit on a donkey staring at the back of another donkey for two hours to remind you of I-75 traffic.

2. Go to downtown Canchias.  With only two stores, it's alot like downtown Dayton.

3. Find the nearest cow and pretend you are at Young's Dairy Farm.

4. Sit in Pastor Gordon's helicopter and pretend you are at the Air Force Museum.

5. Get fifty Hondurans to stand next to you to remind you of shopping at the Dayton Mall.

6. Tell the Hondurans to go away to remind you of shopping at the Salem Mall.

7. Pay a Honduran $30 to hit a coconut around with a bamboo stick in his field.  Pretend the cow pies are sand traps, voila!  you are golfing!

8. Have someone ring a bell every five minutes while you eat to remind you of telemarketers.

9. Teach the Hondurans how to play REAL football!

10. Tell Gloria you want a Happy Meal to go.  By the way, I imagine even God can't save you from that one.

Telapia Recipes

Sitting at home wondering what to do with that telapia?  Wonder no more!  Pam Cook sent us some recipes!  Oddly appropriate, a Cook sending recipes!!!

Fresh Talapia

 

2 tablespoons fish seasoning, such as a combination of dried herbs like oregano, basil, thyme, and paprika

1/2 cup flour seasoned with a little sea salt

1 egg, beaten

olive oil

1 clove garlic, sliced

1 small shallot, finely minced

 

Season the fish pieces on all sides very well with the fish seasonings. Then dip into the flour, and then into the beaten egg, and then back into the flour. In meantime, either preheat browning dish as described above, or use a skillet on the burner. Heat the oil, and then add the garlic and shallot and cook just until they start to turn soft. Quickly add the coated fish and cook for 1-2 minutes on each side. Garnish and serve.

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Poached Talapia with Spinach Cream Sauce

    2-3 lbs dressed Talapia (Red Snapper or Orange Roughy can be substituted)

    1/4 cup sliced green onion

    1/2 tspn pepper

    1/2 cup dry white wine (chicken broth can be used as an option)

    1/2 cup water

    1/2 cup dairy sour cream

    1/2 cup mayonnaise

    1/2 tspn dried tyhme, crushed

    1/2 tspn finely shredded lemon peel

    1/4 tspn dry mustard

    1/2 cup whipping cream

    1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh spinach

    Dash of pepper

    Head of Lettuce

    2 Red bell peppers

    2 Yellow bell peppers

Directions for Fish

Rinse fish; pat dry with paper towels.  Place fish in solid cooking tray.  Pour wine (or broth) and water over fish.  Sprinkle green onion and pepper over fish, then place in Convection Steam Oven.  Set cooking temperature at 195 ° Fahrenheit.  Set cooking time at 4 minutes

Directions for Sauce

In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the sour cream, mayonnaise, thyme, lemon peel, dry mustard, and pepper.  Mix contents with an electric mixer on low speed till soft peaks are formed.  Fold whipped cream and spinach into sour cream mixture

Preparations/Comments

Take folds of lettuce and place on serving plate Slice peppers in decorative pattern Remove fish from Convection Steam Oven, and place over lettuce on serving plate Arrange peppers around fish, then gently place sauce over fish, and serve.

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Bronzed Talapia (by Paul Prudhomme)

SEASONING MIX
      2/3  tsp. salt
      1/2  tsp. paprika
      1/2  tsp. onion powder
      1/2  tsp. dry mustard
      1/3  tsp. garlic powder
      1/3  tsp. white pepper
      1/3  tsp. ground cumin
      1/3  tsp. dried basil
      1/3  tsp. dried oregano
    1 1/3  dash black pepper
    1 1/3  dash dried thyme

    4 talapia fillets
    vegetable cooking spray

Combine the seasonings mix ingredients in a small bowl. Sprinkle each side of each fillet evenly with 1/2 teaspoon of this mixture.  Preheat a 10-inch skillet over high heat to 400°, about 5 minutes.  Spray the top side of each fillet evenly with vegetable cooking spray.  Place the fillets, two at a time (sprayed side down), in the skillet, reduce the heat to medium, and cook 2 minutes. Turn the fillets over and cook until done, about 2 minutes more. Remove the cooked fillets, wipe the skillet clean, bring the heat back to 400°, and repeat the process with the remaining fillets.

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