Last week we had a group of people at Salt and Light in Honduras that was composed of mostly younger adults with a few older ones for wisdom and guidance. They were from California, Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas and Mississippi. A very diverse group as far as their home and some in age but they all had a BIG HEART for spreading the WORD. While they were here for seven days, they sponsored four conferences with large attendance. There was a conference for young people on Saturday morning, a conference for women on Saturday afternoon and a conference for families on Saturday night. There were so many people in attendance Saturday night that some of the people had to sit outside and try to hear through the windows. They estimated the attendance to be around 2,000 people. On Monday, there was a conference for pastors and their wives with 33 pastors. Bishop Robert Winn and his wife Mattie from California spoke at all the meetings. They have been married for over 30 years and have 9 children and 9 grandchildren. The people here really responded well to them and their message.
The group also spent a lot of time walking the streets and telling other about Jesus and inviting them to church. They gave out clothes one afternoon to a place in Pena Blanca that is really poor with the help of the woman's ministry of Salt and Light.
The group visited a village of indigenous people from Honduras called the Lenka. The day was spent with clothes distribution, VBS, blessing some families with food and the doctor seeing patients. It was a long day because the roads are bad so the bus could only go so far and then we had to take the boxes and people in the trucks with 4 wheel drive the last miles to the village.
On Wednesday, we went to the waterfall and had a baptismal service for Douglas that lives at the orphanage. He had made a profession of faith earlier but had never been baptized. Lillian Brown talked with him one day to find out why he had not been baptized and he decided to do it while they were here.
Every team that comes is special and God has a purpose for each one of them being here, I meet so many wonderful people that I would not have a chance to meet if I was not in Honduras.
We were expecting another team yesterday but their flight was cancelled and only two of them made it out of the US. Three more will come tonight and others will come Saturday and Sunday. We are praying that their flights will not be cancelled and they will make it without any more problems. Eleven people on the team will not be able to come because they could not rearrange their schedules.
Please pray that the rest of the team is able to get here without any more troubles.
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Vicksburg Honduras Mission
Last week, we had a team at Sal y Luz from Vicksburg, MS. The team was composed of five different churches with all ages. There were 38 in the team and everything was well organized and went well. The team installed a water purification system in a village not far from here called La Virtud. The people in the village were very excited to have clean water to drink.
There was VBS in the same village every day. At the end of the week the children planted a garden of beans, squash and radishes. It was quite a site to see around 80 children with machetes, hoes and other implements transform the bare ground into rows with seeds planted. The Vicksburg team provided seeds and guidance for the planting.
The team also build two houses, one for a widow in La Virtud and another for Walter's family in El Eden. Walter is a young boy who has some type of brain injury, he is probably around 10 year old and cannot do anything for himself but he has the brightest smile I have ever seen. His mother takes very good care of him and carries him where ever he goes. They only have two small rooms to live in and there are three children, including Walter. The Lord puts things on our hearts all the time that He wants us to do. The Lord put it on our heart to tell the Vicksburg team that they needed to built Walter a house. We called the leader of the team to ask him if they could build Walter a house and he said they didn't have enough money for another house but he would look at the numbers and see. The next day he called and told me that they had received a call the night before from another church and they wanted to give some money for the team. It was enough money to build Walter a house. Walter will have a shower large enough for his mother to roll his chair in and she will not have to put him in the yard to give him a bath. She will have room to roll him around in his house in his wheel chair. ISN"T GOD GOOD. He provided just what was needed for Walter and his family. We have so many opportunities to watch God work His plan here. We all have the opportunity to see God at work but it is so much easier to see here.
The team from Vicksburg also had a nurse practitioner with them that went into the villages in the area and did health prevention training for some of the leaders in the communities. She also saw some patients with Dr. Karla in the clinic one day.
The team sent over 30 sewing machines down on the container the week before so there were 15 ladies and two men that were given the opportunity to learn to make shirts and blouses for the children's uniforms here. Henry is very determined to give the people the opportunity to earn money so they can improve their living conditions. In the past, they have been given without having the opportunity to learn skills to help them improve their lifestyle.
We are very grateful to the groups that come to Honduras and help the people in many ways. Evangelism at the clinic is growing with the pastor's Bible Study and the Ladies Ministry. We have a team coming next week that will go to the villages of the indigenous people of this area and evangelize them. I have never been to one of the villages where these people live so that will be interesting.
Please continue to pray for the efforts of the teams and staff as they try to help the people of Honduras.
There was VBS in the same village every day. At the end of the week the children planted a garden of beans, squash and radishes. It was quite a site to see around 80 children with machetes, hoes and other implements transform the bare ground into rows with seeds planted. The Vicksburg team provided seeds and guidance for the planting.
The team also build two houses, one for a widow in La Virtud and another for Walter's family in El Eden. Walter is a young boy who has some type of brain injury, he is probably around 10 year old and cannot do anything for himself but he has the brightest smile I have ever seen. His mother takes very good care of him and carries him where ever he goes. They only have two small rooms to live in and there are three children, including Walter. The Lord puts things on our hearts all the time that He wants us to do. The Lord put it on our heart to tell the Vicksburg team that they needed to built Walter a house. We called the leader of the team to ask him if they could build Walter a house and he said they didn't have enough money for another house but he would look at the numbers and see. The next day he called and told me that they had received a call the night before from another church and they wanted to give some money for the team. It was enough money to build Walter a house. Walter will have a shower large enough for his mother to roll his chair in and she will not have to put him in the yard to give him a bath. She will have room to roll him around in his house in his wheel chair. ISN"T GOD GOOD. He provided just what was needed for Walter and his family. We have so many opportunities to watch God work His plan here. We all have the opportunity to see God at work but it is so much easier to see here.
The team from Vicksburg also had a nurse practitioner with them that went into the villages in the area and did health prevention training for some of the leaders in the communities. She also saw some patients with Dr. Karla in the clinic one day.
The team sent over 30 sewing machines down on the container the week before so there were 15 ladies and two men that were given the opportunity to learn to make shirts and blouses for the children's uniforms here. Henry is very determined to give the people the opportunity to earn money so they can improve their living conditions. In the past, they have been given without having the opportunity to learn skills to help them improve their lifestyle.
We are very grateful to the groups that come to Honduras and help the people in many ways. Evangelism at the clinic is growing with the pastor's Bible Study and the Ladies Ministry. We have a team coming next week that will go to the villages of the indigenous people of this area and evangelize them. I have never been to one of the villages where these people live so that will be interesting.
Please continue to pray for the efforts of the teams and staff as they try to help the people of Honduras.
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