El Crematorio

A place that's much in my prayers these days . . . "The Dump" on the edge of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, known in Spanish as "El Crematorio." The Miller family is getting ready to go work with the AFE school on the edge of "The Dump," and you can see that video with Jeony's narration at http://knapsack.blogspot.com.

Jeony isn't a pastor, really, but his young daughter talked him into launching this ministry just a few years ago, in 2002, when they saw all the children working - and living - right there at the dump, when they were taking their own household trash to drop it off. Jeony notes towards the end of the other clip that "for $62,000 i can run this school for a year, serving over 100 enrolled kids, a nursery for dozens of younger ones and sports programs for all, plus the water ministry up on the garbage heap."

This video clip is a meditation in Spanish about prayer and poverty (thanks, Gay!) over images that give you a broad sense of what's going on there.