For many children in Potreritos, a deeply isolated community with no access to dental care, tooth decay isn’t just a minor inconvenience—it’s a serious threat. Without treatment, they risk losing their teeth at a young age, making it painful to eat, speak, or even smile.

What if your life depended on medical care that was nowhere to be found? For thousands of Hondurans, this isn’t just a fear—it’s their reality. Scattered across the remote mountains and dense jungles of southern Honduras, entire villages live completely off the land, farming just enough to survive. These subsistence farmers and their families work tirelessly to grow beans and corn, yet when sickness strikes, there is nowhere to turn.

Namasigüe is hot, dry, and economically challenged. Most families survive by growing corn, earning just enough to put food on the table. Others find seasonal work in melon, watermelon, sugarcane, or shrimp farms, doing whatever it takes to survive. But for Jorge, his wife Rosa Castellón, and their five children, survival meant sacrifice, discomfort, and hardship—until one day, everything changed.

When the pastors of Mission Lazarus first met Julio Varela, he was at his lowest point—sick, bedridden, and without options. They prayed over him, sharing the Word of God with his family, offering not just comfort, but the promise that he was not alone. A week later, when the pastors returned, they expected to find Julio still struggling. Instead, they found a miracle.

Body functions and noises, quite taboo or unsophisticated to discuss in the US, are a fair game topic of discussion when doing development and humanitarian aid work it seems. Especially in the two thirds of the globe that does not benefit from many of the amazing luxuries that we take for granted in the western world. What’s even more alarming than discussing your body functions and noises is that more people die every year from diarrhea than from AIDS. And, a large part of that diarrhea could be prevented if people had two simple things.