Roatan Campbells' Connection

                                                                                    Hannah November, 2021 November is celebration month for students. Special projects are completed. School is wrapping up and students receive recognition for all their efforts. It is also rainy season so hanging laundry and getting it dry is a reason to celebrate!  We are so thankful for internet and friends who send us many updates and pictures so that despite missing the celebrations, we can share from a distance. In turn, we want to share with you too. Giggle It’s slow tourist season on the island. Belkis and her brother were able to travel to the mainland to visit family and tour some places they had never been. I really shouldn’t enjoy these two pictures so much – Marcio is a 15-year-old...

August 2021. Happy Summer!   This weekend we were to be settling into a month’s stay in Roatan before the fall harvest. This weekend we were to be greeting old friends, meeting new, and cleaning the accumulation of a year and a half of dust and gecko guck off our floors, car, and every surface. We might even have squeezed in a visit to the ocean. But – not to be. We have scoured the internet for opportunities to fly out to Roatan with the same result – it is just too complicated and expensive! With the requirements of covid tests, (despite being fully vaccinated), ticket prices double the normal price and flights requiring sleepovers in the US, it felt like trying to put a square peg in a round hole. Nothing felt right. So, we are disappointed but are learning to be content knowing that when the time is right the doors will open. Encouragement has been what has kept all of us feeling content with the limitations we have all had. We have all needed to know that we are being notice...

Hello! Greetings! What’s new? Has anyone asked you that lately? For lots of us, it has been a lot of same-old-same old. Still another 3 weeks (or more?) of our stay-at-home time. And even after - more time apart from family and friends – apart by at least 2 meters. It is hard to see much new. But it IS spring – and all around we see and hear and feel newness – new growth in our gardens and the trees; birds that chirp their welcomes to the new day; the sun that shines earlier in the morning and lasts into the evening bringing energizing warmth and light. The celebration of Easter reminds us of a glorious new with the resurrection of Jesus. We are reminded of the new hope – the confident assurance – that we aren’t stuck with the same-old-same-old hardened, self-focused heart. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (2Corinthians 5:17) . The new has come! Here on the farm the new farming year is begin...

💕 Felicidades! That's how to say it in Spanish.  Congratulations Greicy and Nahun - newly married February 26! We are just so excited for this couple and want to share this good news.  We have cheered on Greicy since she was in grade 6. Greicy met Nahun two years ago. She caught his eye as she walked past his place on her way home from her nursing classes. Nahun worked with Greicy’s mom’s husband. In his quiet way,  Nahun asked questions about Greicy - a few questions at a time - until he felt confident that he could talk to her. Greicy took it from there.  Greicy and Nahun have lived together for almost two years. Both knew that God wanted to bless their lives together and they needed to be married. But, with work and school commitments, and Honduran  bureaucracy,  this seemed an  impossible dream. Thanks to some special donations, and a period without work for both, the impossible became possible. Getting married for many people in Roatan, Honduras ...

It is February. Normally, this is the time when we would be in Roatan checking out the final purchases, and arranging for buses, backpacks, and uniforms so that some of the kids we know get back to school successfully. Normally, by mid-February, the students have had a few days in their classrooms as they meet their teachers and classmates. In a normal year, our little classroom would be buzzing with kids excited to share about the homework they have and the materials they don't have.  As has been the case for the past 11 months, nothing is normal. Back-to-school has happened - quite successfully - without us being there. We have kept cyberspace a-buzzing with various connections. It is really amazing to be there, without being there.   Students have been enrolled and tuition paid. That was so smooth it makes us wonder why we ever worry.  We support students in 4 private schools as well as checking in on the needs for a few public school students.  Not only have...