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.
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