Catracho Missions | 3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Name Your Food

We’ve been serving here in Comayagua, Honduras for about two months and have a week left before  we leave for debrief. The ministry we have been working with is called Catracho Missions. They train and raise up missionaries in Comayagua and the surrounding region. 

Everyday life here looks like: 

-Waking up in my tent and spending time in the Word

-Heading to the bottom of the hill to get breakfast, which usually has tortillas 

-Praying over what the day will bring

-Starting our ministry for the day which usually consists of manual labor; whether it be fixing windows for the church, bringing logs down from the other side of the mountain, or helping clear a part of the jungle for the community garden.

-We take a break for lunch. The women who work in the kitchen make classic Honduran dishes for us and it is always served with tortillas.

-After lunch, we usually try to finish whatever task we have been working on in the morning. A couple days a week we have classes for the children and women of the mountain. These classes happen after lunch and last an hour or two. For the kids, we teach them how to read and write. The women’s classes usually consist of learning how to cook, learning how to sew, and a Bible study.

-Once we are finished with our ministry for the day we try to get as clean as we can,  which usually consist of a super cold shower, a bucket shower, or a wet wipe bath.

-Dinner is usually after sunset and yes, there are always tortillas. After dinner if we have leftover tortillas, we usually put peanut butter or honey on them. The Catracho team might find it gross, but it’s too delicious to pass up. 

-Our nights usually consist of team time, sometimes worship, sometimes our host teaching, or calling it an early night.

Catracho Missions’ main focus is to grow relationships with the community by whatever means. A lot of ministry here looks like manual labor. Currently we are helping clear a part of the jungle where a new community garden will go. The goal is to help show the community that more can grow in the area than just coffee and help them understand how to plant these things in order to provide for their families. We are also helping repair and reinforce parts of the church and the extra rooms they have on the property.

Since there isn’t any internet or electricity at our site, we’ve made our own entertainment. This usually comes in the form of us watching and commenting on Chicken Planet. There are 6 chickens on the property: Bob, Henrietta, Comida, Galleta, Cookie, and Cruella. We usually watch as they fight over tortillas, walk around, or mess with each other. Over the past 6 weeks we’ve become attached to these chickens and quickly found out it probably wasn’t the best idea to name them. Three reason why we shouldn’t have named the chickens are:

1. You’ll get attached and will become sad when you realized you’ve eaten one of the chickens you’ve named.
2. Chicken Planet basically became survivor over the last few weeks as we watched the chickens disappear one by one. Henreitta is the sole survivor but we assume she won’t last the next week or so.
3. Provides endless entertainment (like holding them and dancing with them) until it brings great sorrow.