Field Notes · No. 01

The Hernandez-
Hernandez Family

A family in rural Honduras. Five children, a house of concrete and tin, and a father who works the land with his hands.

October 2025 · Honduras · with Rooted Intl.
The Rooted crew arrives to meet the family
To capture the beauty of each person.
The father The mother and youngest daughter
To show how God, the creator of the universe, created them too.
The youngest by the barbed wire fence
Their lives. Their family.

You arrive and the kids don't hide. They don't perform either. They just let you in.

Fixing the bike
Their hands.
Boy smiling
Their voices.
A boy holding a baby chick Two brothers in the cornfield
Their faces.
Two brothers in the cornfield
The totality of who they are.

They have one bike between five kids. Nobody argues about whose turn it is.

"Love is shared. Work is practiced. Smiles are chosen."

— Evey Zambrana
A child on a rope swing — black and white
The swing seat — a grain sack A pot over open fire
He knows their names.
The outdoor wash station
And their deepest grievances.
The porch — empty, everything in its place
And their fullest joy.
The father laughing — black and white
He knows them.
The youngest kids playing — black and white The kids walking away across the field
And you get to see.
The Hernandez-Hernandez family with the Rooted Intl. team
To share in the beauty of what the Father sees.

You drive away on the same road you came in on. But you're not the same person who arrived.

The family sitting together, looking into the distance
They'll still be here tomorrow. He'll still be with them.
To be known by Him, is to know others.
O LORD, you have searched me and known me!
You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
You search out my path and my lying down
and are acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know it altogether.
You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is high; I cannot attain it.

Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light about me be night,"
even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is bright as the day,
for darkness is as light with you.

For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
I awake, and I am still with you.

Oh that you would slay the wicked, O God!
O men of blood, depart from me!
They speak against you with malicious intent;
your enemies take your name in vain.
Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
I hate them with complete hatred;
I count them my enemies.

Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any grievous way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139 ESV
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