Jesus Banquet

Last Wednesday I had the privilege to be a part of an event called the Jesus Banquet. The Jesus Banquet is an annual event put on every December to feed the people living in the communities around the city dump here in Tegucigalpa. The goal is to give these families a nice meal and an opportunity to sit down and enjoy it as well. A local restaurant called Carnitas did all the cooking and it was delicious. David, Mark, and I picked up the workers at 6 am so that they could start cooking early to hopefully start serving lunch at a reasonable time. The people were lined up and ready to eat and luckily everything went as planned and our estimate is over 1200 people were served that day. One thing that still gets me is the amount of children that live in these communities. It seems every family has 5 or 6 kids and it always seems to break my heart to see the condition they are in. However the bright side of having all the kids around was it gave me an excuse to go play with them all day! It was a really awesome experience and I hope to be here next year to help with it again.