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Be Not Afraid ReadinessWhen Aaron and Katie and their seven teenagechildren finally left Ohio for war-ravaged Honduras,their impatience was as great as their exuberance.Volunteers in a 1994 disaster-relief effort sponsoredby their Mennonite church, their bus had long beenpacked with equipment and supplies, and they wouldhave been on the road already, if reports of violence inCentral America hadn’t thwarted their plans. Now theywere finally heading south.Traveling in a convoy of relief vehicles, they crossedone state after another, and then Mexico, withoutincident. But one morning several weeks into theirtrip, as their bus descended a winding mountain roadnear Tegucigalpa, calamity struck. Daughter Shirleyremembers:I was drowsing when suddenly Dad began to pump thebrakes hard and fast, and Mom and Mandy asked himworriedly, “Are the brakes giving out?” I sat up instantly,fully awake. Dad did not answer right away. Then, in ananguished voice, he said they were, and grabbed the CB.My brothers were driving the vehicle behind us, and hetold them what was happening. “Pray!” he begged them.“Pray hard!”We were picking up speed now and heading for acurve. On one side was a huge rock wall, and on the