Sunday, August 10, 2008

North Carolina - Hickory Grove Baptist Church Team

We had a team come in from North Carolina this past week and had a great time in ministry with them. They had a team of ten people and God used them in a mighty way to get His work accomplished. They did food ministry, spent time with the boys, fed some kids that are living on the streets and helped us out with our second youth service in Monte Redondo.

Giving food to the kids on the streets.

Sharing the Gospel with the kids. Two of them raised their hand to accept the Lord as their Personal Savior. What an exciting time to see people start a new life in the Lord Jesus Christ.


The team spent the first part of every morning giving out food to the people of Honduras. This is just one of the houses along our route that rely on God to provide all their needs. It's so good to see the smiles on their faces as God continually provides their needs. The team shared the Love of Jesus with each of these families with many decisions to follow Christ.

Mike sharing the Gospel during one of the visits.

Another house in our food ministry.

The team at Gloria's house.

Lori sizing shoes for a little girl that didn't have any.

Some places aren't so easy to get to, especially by vehicle.



The poverty here is so great that when the people see the bus they come from everywhere in hopes that a bag of beans or rice will be available. God always seems to give us just enough to share with these people as well.

People waiting for food and clothing.

We had our second youth service this week and was a huge success as we had 63 kids show up for the service. The Hickory Grove team shared a drama and our Honduran Director shared the message. The kids are so excited about the new service that they asked me on Wednesday night if it was going to be at the same time this coming week.

Luis preaching to the youth of Monte Redondo.

Ministry boys helping with the youth service.


We want to thank this team for all the hard work this week and we look forward to their return in the future.


We are ending our summer teams and what a summer it's been. God has done so much through our short term mission teams that we stand in awe of His moving. We have two weeks off and then our medical team will be arriving. Please be in prayer for them as they prepare for a big week as they will be serving the people of Honduras. The last Medical team we had saw over 1,200 people and each person heard the Gospel before entering the clinic.

To God be the glory in all that He does!

Monday, August 4, 2008

Our Home Church - Morris Hill Baptist Church

We had the pleasure last week of having our home church come down and serve with us. It was a great time of seeing our church family and catching up on things back home. We Love You Guys!


They helped us with starting a youth service for our boys as well as the youth of Monte Redondo and what a blessing it was. The team had gone out into the village and handed out flyer's to all the youth and hung them up in the local pulperias along the way. I figured if we had 40 show up it would be a good start and the youth would catch a vision of what youth ministry could look like, but God had a different plan. The first day we had around 120 youth show up. I was blown away at this point and realized God really wanted to do something HUGE during the week. The next day rolled and I thought to myself "what if we have a 150 youth today?" Well to my surprise about 200 showed up for the service. God is truly awesome! The team did a time of worship, a drama, a message and Bible studies with the boys at the farm. The boys in our ministry were so excited about doing youth ministry that some of our boys did one of the dramas for the Wednesday night service. It was really cool to see them catch the vision God had set before us. They are ready to start a worship band as well.


During Wednesday night service we had around 100 people show up for the regular service. In three days 450 people came through the doors of the church with 60 decisions to follow Christ.

Drama

Having some fun with the kids of Monte Redondo

Sharing the message


The team also did food ministry to many families. In one situation the whole family came to know the Lord as their Personal Savior.

Food Ministry

Please be in prayer as we continue these youth services every Tuesday from 3-4 pm.

Here is a short video from the service.



To God be the Glory!