Recently, Miss Ericka Wright, one of the teachers at New Life Bilingual School in Sabanagrande, wrote an article that gives us a peek into her life in Honduras as part of the Hodges ministry team there.
Miss Wright graduated from Pensacola Christian College with a Bachelors in English and then from West Coast Baptist College with a masters in Education. She is in her second year of teaching at New Life Bilingual School with the Hodges.
She has given permission for her article to be shared here.
Dear Friends,
Another school year has begun! This year, I am the principle teacher for the combined seventh and eighth grade. I have eighteen students in that class. I am also teaching a few classes for grades 3, 5, 6, and 9. The subjects I’m teaching this year are grammar, spelling, literature, Bible, history, geography, PE, computer, and music. It’s definitely going to be a busy year!
Please pray that God will give me wisdom to help this new class. I love them already, but they are very different from my class last year. For one thing, I have two new students who have never been at our school before. I have to constantly remind myself that they have never had me before and don’t know what to expect. Another reason this year is different is that we are combining certain classes that we have never combined before. It’s been rather difficult trying to get all the students to move at the pace we need to move in order to accomplish everything I have planned. But I am certainly happy to be teaching again!
I’m very excited to tell you that our bus route is still growing. We had 17 people on our route this past Sunday! I’ve started having Bible verse competitions with them too. It’s encouraging to see children so eager to learn verses every week.
In other good news, all of our buses have been working! Please pray that they continue to run.
I really enjoyed my adventure this month. I wish you all could experience something like we did. Right before school started, the Hodges and some of us teachers spent a few days visiting Bro. Mike Veasey, a missionary in northern Honduras. One morning, we loaded up to go sightseeing. However, we didn’t get very far before the road became very congested with people on foot headed to a protest rally. For the next hour and a half, our two-lane road turned into a very congested four-lane road as people, cars, bikes, and horses all tried to inch past the protest. Our vehicles were so close together, we could literally reach out and touch the people in the vehicles around us. At one point, we spotted an ice cream vender walking past our car, so we rolled down our car windows and ordered ice cream. That gave us an idea. We searched our vehicle, pocketbooks, and Bibles for every tract we could find. Then we proceeded to pass them out by leaning out our windows and handing the tracts to everyone that we passed or that passed us. We finally ran out of tracts, but as we sat there in that traffic jam, we watched person after person open our tracts and read them while they waited for the traffic to move. I’m praying that God will bless our spur-of-the-moment evangelism time.
Thank you for your continued prayers for me as well as my students as we begin another school year.
Sincerely,
Ericka Wright
