APRIL BIRTHDAYS 
We had 4 Bridge House birthdays in April. It is always our busiest birthday month. Nilsy, Rodolfo, Jessica, and Maryury
all enjoyed the celebrations. We always have dessert and a movie together as a group. Rodolfo had a surprise birthday with friends and the girls had a game night with pizza and friends. It was all a lot of fun.
We had 4 Bridge House birthdays in April. It is always our busiest birthday month. Nilsy, Rodolfo, Jessica, and Maryury
all enjoyed the celebrations. We always have dessert and a movie together as a group. Rodolfo had a surprise birthday with friends and the girls had a game night with pizza and friends. It was all a lot of fun. SURGERY SURPRISES
April was a really busy month with lots of activity. One of our guys started off the month with a general pain in his body. After more questioning, a doctor visit with X-rays, a second opinion with more X-rays, we realized that he needed immediate surgery. He ended up in the hospital for four days. At the end of the entire ordeal, we talked to the surgeon and it appeared that our Bridge guy was healed sometime between the last X-ray and the surgery. As the doctor went in for surgery and opened everything up, he discovered that the damage revealed in the x-rays had actually healed! We were shocked by what we heard and just looked at each other wide eyed! We looked at our guy and said, “Do you realize you were just healed by God?” He simply said, “Cool!” and smiled. The impact hit us all powerfully. God is so good!
DANGERS IN THE CITY
Over the past couple of years the city of Tegucigalpa has slowly gotten more dangerous. The political leadership in the country is distracted by other issues and don’t seem to be doing much about crime. This is one of the topics we often have to talk about in the Bridge House since the youth, like all other Hondurans in the city, need to learn how to get around town safely even as there is a rise in criminal activity. We did a survey in the house and found that of 10 students, there had been 15 attempted robberies toward our youth. It didn’t seem to matter where the youth went in town and despite precautions they had taken, most robberies had happened in better neighborhoods and in the daylight. The bright side of it all is that our Bridge youth have wised up a lot and are more careful in the city now than ever before. The entire city has had to learn to “keep their heads up and walk fast”. That has become our motto in the house. Please keep us in your prayers on this topic. May God always protect us and be gracious to us, keeping us from dangers.
*Photos are (left) of Rodolfo celebrating his 10th birthday with friends from church and (right) the girls playing the game of Clue with friends during a birthday party.
