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NEWSPAGE 4 | THE DAILY MISSISSIPPIAN | 28 JANUARY 2013 | NEWS
Nineteen students and three adults from The University of Mississippi’s Wesley Founda-tion traveled to Honduras for a week-long mission trip Jan. 8-15. They worked with Salt & Light Ministries, based in Jack-son.
“The Wesley Foundation planned this trip during the long Christmas break because the majority of our students are off the whole seven-week break,” campus minister Rev. Eddie Willis said. “It was the best time for us to take an eight-day mission trip.”
According to information on the Salt & Light Ministries website, Salt & Light Ministries is a Christian non-denomina-tional organization that works to “deliver the gospel of Jesus Christ by being the salt and the light of the world.” Its ministry is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people in ru-ral areas of Honduras. The be-gan its work in January 2002.
“This was my third trip to
Honduras, and I have seen such a great need with the peo-ple there,” Willis said. “Many of the children that we worked with have only one parent, and several were orphans.”
The Wesley student team focused on two communi-ties outside the town of Peña Blanca. One team of students led vacation Bible school for about 50 children at a local church in El Jaral. They con-ducted activities such as acting out Bible stories, singing songs and playing games with the children. The team was aided by a translator.
The other group members were on a work team, laying a foundation for a new cinder block house in the community of El Tigre. The work team was helping move a family from a bamboo house to a new cin-der block home. They began by digging the foundational trenches, mixing concrete and building the walls four cinder blocks high. This team also dug a pit 12 feet deep, which will serve as an outhouse for the new home.
Freshman social studies edu-cation major Joey Bates was a member of the construction team.
“One day we were all work-ing on the house, and it was hot and tiring,” Bates said. “Then the owner of the house that we were building stops and says, ‘Thank you guys for helping me build my home.’ It was extremely heartwarming and humbling to hear.”
The Wesley team stayed at
Las Glorias Hotel, which is located on Lake Yojoa. Dur-ing their free time, the students had trails to explore within the compound. Students were able to participate in activities such as swimming and horseback riding.
“Our students and adult chaperones were physically and spiritually moved with what God had in store for us,” Willis said. “We certainly learned more from the Hondu-
ran people than we could have ever done for them. The image that came to my mind was that of the Bible verse about wine-skins bursting due to our hearts being stretched and bursting forth with joy.”
Funds for the trip were raised by donations from the United Methodist community in Ox-ford and the Wesley house do-nor mailing base. Many of the students also worked Ole Miss football game day parking ser-vices to raise money for their trips.
“Not only have some of our students committed to spon-soring several children for a year of schooling, but other acts of personal service,” Willis said. “Upon leaving the work-site on our last day, I noticed a few students getting on the bus without shoes. Upon asking where their boots and shoes were, one student replied, ‘They needed them more than I did.’
“I am one proud campus minister because of the matu-rity of our group.”
Wesley students serve in Honduras during Christmas break
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During Christmas break, Ole Miss students traveled to Honduras to build houses and be the “salt and light” for villagers and their children.
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C O L U M N
In case you’ve been living under a rock
Welcome back to yet an-other spring semester!
I have to be honest with you, I’ve been living un-der a holiday rock for the past six weeks. I haven’t watched much news, I’ve barely looked at my required textbooks and I temporar-ily forgot Blackboard ex-isted. I can’t tell you much of what all has happened in the outside world; I found out Obama was inaugurated by way of a Huffington Post push notification.
Maybe you’re in a similar situation. If so, consider this a brief overview of some of the more important things that happened over the break.
The Newtown, Conn., shooting broke all of our hearts. Even living under a
rock, it was impossible not to hear about the horrible unfolding of events at Sandy Hook Elementary School; however, you might have managed to miss the predict-able and massive gun con-trol debate that has resulted. Just this past week, a large number of people across the country began criticizing Walmart for selling firearms. A petition that started on Change.org asking Walmart to stop “selling and adver-tising assault weapons” has received more than 114,000 signatures.
Another situation mak-ing many Americans angry is tax increases. After find-ing ourselves dangling on the edge of a “fiscal cliff,” many people receiving their first paycheck of 2013 were surprised to find their check lighter than normal. This is due to a payroll tax hike, but judging by Twitter and Facebook, no one can seem to decide whom to blame for it — Obama and Democrats, Republicans or the whole lot.
No matter whose fault it is, the reality remains: We’re all making less money this year than we did last year.
One of the stranger stories that emerged over break in-volved Notre Dame football player Manti Te’o and his girlfriend who never existed. Last year, Te’o received a call from his parents telling him his grandmother had passed away; just a few hours later, he received another phone call with more bad news. His girlfriend had passed away as a result of leukemia.
Te’o went on to play a game that week because his girl-friend had made him prom-ise he wouldn’t miss a game if anything happened to her. It was a moving game, and students at Notre Dame did a lot to show their support. But what we didn’t know was that Te’o had never actually met this girl in person, and then this month news sur-faced that she didn’t even ex-ist. Te’o claims it was a prank and that he had no part of it, but some of his comments
from last year have left peo-ple wondering if he might have been involved in the hoax as well.
Manti Te’o’s situation was not the only sports letdown that occurred over break. Af-ter vehemently denying alle-gations of doping for months, Lance Armstrong officially admitted his guilt in an inter-view with Oprah Winfrey. As a result, Armstrong lost over $75 million in sponsorship deals, had to distance himself from Livestrong, the cancer charity he founded, and lost the respect and admiration of many fans.
So now you’re caught up on current events, depress-ing though they may be. On the bright side, we survived the Mayan apocalypse and found out who “Gossip Girl” is.
And that’s all that really matters anyway, right?
Megan Massey is a religious studies senior from Mount Olive. Follow her on Twitter @megan_massey.
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