Spanish Bible, Grocery Shopping, & Building

Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ! We hope your family is doing well and growing in the knowledge of the Lord. January was a great month and we were able to expand some of our ministry opportunities.

MEDA Ministry

In January Mark started reading the Bible in Spanish each morning with the workers at MEDA. Even though he can’t speak fluently, he thought it would be a good ministry opportunity to read with the men each morning. This would help his Spanish and also help the men in their knowledge of the Word of God. They are reading through the Gospel of John. It was a great surprise two Sundays ago when one of the workers came to church. He hasn’t been to church since we have been here. We are not sure if it’s a result of hearing the Bible everyday, but we pray that the Lord is working in his life.

This week MEDA begins another year of seminary classes. Please be praying for the professors to teach the Word of God accurately and clearly. Also, pray for the students that they will be diligent in studying and the Lord will help them understand His Word better.

Church Ministry

Our church recently built a kitchen to be used in a new daycare ministry and for church functions.  Mark built some shelves for the kitchen and is now in the process of starting to build a table. Mark, Josiah, and Caleb have also helped with a painting project at church. Christy has been responsible for purchasing the food for the daycare. This is a vital ministry for the women in the area, many of whom are single mothers, who need a safe place for their children.  It also provides two healthy meals and basic hygiene for the children.  She goes to the grocery store once a week and also makes a trip the daycare each week to check supplies and speak with the helpers. We purchased a Bible story flannel graph set which we hope to use in Sunday school soon. We want to help teach the children, and we feel having the flannel graph will help the kids stay focused and better understand the Bible lesson. We have been busy cutting out all the people, animals, trees, and scenery.

Our First Visitor

In January we had our first visitor from Florida. Ken Fuller, who is a good friend from our church in Florida is also on the board of directors of MEDA. He was in Honduras for business for 3 days. It was great seeing him and hearing about our friends back home. 

New Links on our Blog

Check out the new links on our blog

• Noah’s Website – our son Noah built his own website. Not only will you learn about what it’s like for him to live here, but you will also find some of his favorite recipes.
• Sermons by Tony Bartolucci. Tony is a the pastor of Clarkson Community Church and is a great brother in the Lord. Our family attends his church when we are in New York and are blessed by their worship of the Lord and fellowship. 
• Sermons by Steve Kreloff. Steve is one of our old pastors from when our family lived in Clearwater, Florida. Steve is a great expositor of the Scripture.

We are greatful for those who continue to pray for us and provide financial support each month. If you would like to start contributing to our ministry here in Honduras you can print the Support Form and submit it to CMI.  

Mark and the boys working

Isaiah learning to ride without training wheels

Noah building a bed for our dog

The children at the daycare

Elijah and his friends at MEDA

 

Thanksgiving & Christmas

Greetings in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.  A lot has been happening in our family and at MEDA since we last updated our blog.  

We celebrated our first Thanksgiving in Honduras. As you probably know, Thanksgiving is not a holiday in Honduras, therefore work went on as normal. Mark did take most of the day off to spend with the family. The boys had bb gun and bow and arrow contests with the other MEDA kids. We had a Thanksgiving meal at our house with the Montoya’s, Nunez’ and Nery and Chino. Instead of the traditional turkey meal we had chicken. It was a great time of fellowship and remembering how the Lord has blessed us. Thanksgiving day we were surprised by a call from the post office. They said we had a package to pick up. It was a box of Christmas presents from Grace Bible Church in Tampa. There were presents for everyone in our family and lots and lots of cards. Every person in the church wrote individual letters to us. It was a great surprise and big encouragement to our family!  

We indeed have much to be thankful for this year. First of all, we are thankful to the Lord for bringing our family to Honduras to serve Him at MEDA and in the local church. It’s amazing to see His provision for our family over the last few months. We are also thankful for the new roof on our house. A Christian man who lives in San Pedro Sula offered to pay for half the cost to put a new roof on the duplex. The roof is now complete and it’s nice to have a water proof home. We are also thankful for the progress we made in the last few months learning Spanish. It’s fun for the whole family to learn to speak a new language and share what we are learning with each other. 

Our family is also working on building good relationships with the workers and their families here at MEDA. We had all the MEDA workers and Mark’s Spanish tutor over our house for lunch the other day. It was a good time to get to know everyone better and strengthen our relationship with them. Please pray that the Lord would use our family in the lives of the people He is allowing us to work with. Please pray for their salvation and growth in Christ. Once Mark officially takes over his role at MEDA, he hopes to start reading the Bible with the workers during the week. Once he gets the language down well enough we hope to have Bible studies with them also. 

We are attending a small church in the village here in Siguatepeque. Mark has had the opportunity to preach a few times this past month. He preached at the Montoya’s church and preached in the morning and evening service at our church this past Sunday. We are thankful for these opportunities to teach God’s word. He is looking forward to being able to preach in Spanish one day. We are also currently running the church bus ministry. Most of the families that attend our church don’t have a vehicle, so we are able to bring those that live close to us. We typically have 15 people in our 8 passenger Ford Excursion. We are thankful to have such a large vehicle to transport people.  

MEDA has completed another year of conferences and seminary classes. We ended the year by having Steve Fernendez do a conference on the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. It was a great conference and well attended. Please pray for the 2008 conferences and for the men attending the seminary. Mark has completed a project list and maintenance schedule for 2008 at MEDA. Let’s just say the men will be busy this coming year.  

We are now fast approaching Christmas and remember Christ coming to die for wicked people such as ourselves. How humbling that God Almighty, the Creator and Sustainer of the world would humble Himself and take on human flesh. But not only that, but He also willingly went to the cross to receive the judgment that we all so much deserve. I hope you are focusing on Him this Christmas season and not on the gifts and other things that have taken over.  

One thing that I have been thinking about the past few days is how much we have in America. Families here only have a few things at Christmas and most families don’t even have a tree, because they can’t afford one. Children usually only get an outfit for a gift. One girl told us the other day that she wanted new shoes for Christmas. I’m embarrassed at how much money we have wasted over the years at Christmas time. May God help me to be a better steward of His money.

Enjoying a great Thanksgiving meal with friends.

Isaiah - now that’s style. He can’t shoot good yet, but he sure does look good trying.

Boy’s working - hauling away old roof tiles.

Our Church.

Boys learning Spanish.

Homeschooling - you can never start them too early.

Our new roof!

Roman, Mark, Josiah and Caleb getting ready to clean the inside of the water tank.

Making wrapping paper for Christmas.

 

Seven Weeks in Honduras

As of today we have been in Honduras for 7 weeks! We are thankful to the Lord for His continued provision in our lives and His daily grace. We are also thankful to be able to serve alongside two other missionary families (Montoyas and Donatos). Our families work well together and the kids seem like they have been friends for years. 

As most of you already know, Mark, Josiah and Carlos Nunez went to the port on October 10^th to clear our container. The process took longer than expected and we were at the port for 3 days. The process to clear our container was a good time to trust the Lord and rely upon Him to provide what was needed. We arrived home Friday night at 11pm with our container and had to unload it while the driver waited. The Montoyas, the youth from their church, and some MEDA staff were here to help. The container was too high to fit through the front gate so we had to unload the crates on the back of a pickup truck and haul it them to our house. We didn’t have the privilege of power equipment so it meant a lot of man power to get the job done. We finished unloading everything at 3am Saturday morning. Two minutes after I closed our front door the sky opened up and it poured. I was thankful to the Lord for holding the rain off until we were finished. I was very encouraged by the youth group that helped out. I didn’t know these young men before and they gave up their time and sleep to come and serve the Lord by lifting heavy boxes to help us. They were extremely hard workers and served with great joy! 

We are thankful to those who provided the necessary funds to help with the cost to clear our container. May the Lord bless you for your sacrifice on our behalf. 

Since our container arrived we have been working non-stop trying to get everything situated in the house and the tool shed. Mark and Roman spent many days cleaning out the tool shed and getting our tools organized. The other day we unpacked our last crate in the house. There is still more organizing to do, and we are eager to complete the job.  Thankfully, we are house sitting for the Donato family while they are home on furlough, so we have a clean, uncluttered house to escape to each night! 

The Patterson School is now back in session! The boys started home schooling two weeks ago. This week Josiah, Caleb, and Noah will also begin their Spanish classes. They will be working with a tutor a few hours each week.  Mark is continuing his classes four times a week, and Christy will be finishing up with her tutor next week.  This does not mean she is fluent yet, however!  Her tutor is moving away, and as she is now schooling the boys, she will continue to work on her Spanish on her own time. 

Yesterday we went to Tegucigalpa to register our vehicle and get driver’s licenses; however, due to unavoidable delays, we were only able to complete the first part of registering our vehicle and will need to return in 15 days to finish the registration and attempt once more to obtain driver’s licenses. Driving on the roads outside Siguatepeque is very dangerous as people tend to pass frequently, and there where many “close calls” yesterday. The roads are very windy and people will readily pass on a curve. Please pray for our safety as we travel on the roads in Honduras.  

We are all acclimating quite well to our new life here.  We have discovered, however, that many simple tasks that we tend to take for granted in the United States, can prove to be a bit more tedious or complicated here.  For instance, during a recent trip to the bank, there was a problem with a check we wanted to deposit because two different colors of ink were used.  Also, although they have computers, everything is recorded by hand in log books, and as we were depositing American money, each bill was checked for tears or marks (not usable here) and the number printed on each bill recorded.  We have learned to allow for extra time when we run errands around town and bring lots of patience along! 

The last conference for the year starts this Thursday and will run through Saturday morning. Steve Fernandez from the USA will be teaching on the sufficiency of Jesus Christ. Please pray that the conference will be well attended and that the people will grow in their knowledge of Christ and love for Him. 

Also, please remember to pray for the wife of one of the pastors here, Alejandra.  She is pregnant with her fourth child and is suffering from much pain.  She has too much spinal fluid, causing intense pressure and pain in her head.  As she is pregnant, she can not take her normal medication.  She endured a spinal tap this week and is enduring more pain as a result.   

Lastly, please pray for Mark as he will be preaching at church this Sunday night. We are thankful for the opportunity for him to minister the Word of God.

We appreciate your partnership in the gospel and your continued prayers for our family. 

Can you see why we need a new roof?

 

Conference, Container, & Conversing

The past few day have been filled with a lot of activity in our house and at MEDA.  

Henry Tolopilo was at MEDA teaching a conference on Biblical leadership. It was great to see people from all over come to hear the Word of God taught. There were 200 in attendance, including two bus loads from Nicaragua. Our facility is not equipped to handle this many people so some had to stay in a nearby hotel. One of the highlights was seeing a pastor that Mark met on a trip to Honduras in April. He lives about an hour from MEDA up in the mountains. When we met him in April, he stated he had not had any Bible training and the only book he had was a dictionary. We were able to provide him with a Spanish MacArthur Study Bible, and a church from Florida offered to pay for him to attend one year of conferences. During one of the breaks in the conference, Mark was able to talk with him and found out that he has attended four MEDA conferences since April and is using the things he is learning in his preaching at church. It was such a delight to hear how he is learning the Scripture and maturing in ministry. 

On Wednesday, Mark and Carlos Nunez will be going to the port to open our container. We hope everything will be processed on the same day and that we can get our things by Thursday. Please pray that no other problems occur while processing the container and for the safety of the men while we unload it at MEDA.  

We continue to learn more Spanish each day. Our tutors have been very helpful in teaching us the language. Mark is meeting with the tutor four days a week and Christy is meeting three days a week. Please continue to pray that we will learn the language quickly so that we can be more effective in ministry.  

We appreciate the emails, phone calls, and cards we have received over the last few weeks. It’s great to hear from our family and friends back in the States.

 

An Article About MEDA

The following article about MEDA appeared in the The Worldview, which is a publication of The Master’s Academy International.

“How do you reach a nation for Christ? You equip its pastors to rightly divide the Word. You provide sound training in church ministry and Bible exposition, and then you invite pastors to take advantage of it.

In other words, you follow the pattern set forth by Ministerios Evangelicos de las Americas (MEDA), a TMAI-supported training center that is training church leaders throughout Honduras.

MEDA is located in Siguatepeque, but its reach extends much further. Perhaps nowhere was the fact more evident than in a Bible teaching Conference MEDA held July 26-28. Attendees journeyed to MEDA from all over Honduras.

Alex Granados, who came to teach on Galatians, may have traveled the most. Granados, a native of Columbia, lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he serves as Director of Church Ministries at The Master’s College. Granados also serves as a Pastor of Christian Education at L.A. Community Bible Church.

“I love going into Latin America and seeing the hunger that men have for the Word of God,” he says. “It was wonderful to finally get to MEDA - to be a part of the ministry there. People traveled there from different parts of Honduras. Many traveled long distances, saving cents to be able to come.”

Those men make the journey, says Granados, because what they receive at MEDA is unlike anything they can find anywhere else in Honduras. They come because of MEDA’s commitment to Scripture.

They come because they are hungry for truth. They come because they are shepherding churches filled with believers who are as hungry as they are.

For those men, MEDA is a source of spiritual nourishment. They are eager to come.

“They make whatever sacrifice they need to be there,” Granados says. “It’s pretty tough to be a bi-vocational pastor. They don’t have a lot of money to burn. You can see the priority they put on their training.”

The conference focused on the book of Galatians, bringing foundational truths to bear on the biblical ministry Honduran pastors are pursuing across the country. “They’re looking to be watered with the Word,” Granados says. “They see that MEDA is doing that, and they can’t get enough.

“We live in an age where people want to reinvent everything - they think the Word of God is not adequate. They want a new way. They want a sure thing. But it is as simple and as difficult as faithfully preaching the Word. MEDA is doing that. There is no fluff - no gimmicks. They promise, ‘We will walk you through Scripture,’ and they deliver.

“It’s a testimony to what God is doing there.”

For Granados, who received his training at The Master’s Seminary in Los Angeles, the opportunity to help bring the same kind of equipping to Latin American pastors right where they live is especially rewarding.

“Being an immigrant and knowing how valuable it is to have the Word of God, then to be able to go back and utilize what I learned is a blessing,” he says. “I’m blessed to see the hunger, to see how much the men want to learn.”

For the men who come, meanwhile, the conference also offers a special time of fellowship. Most serve in small villages where opportunities to sharpen themselves against like-minded pastors are rare. For that reason, the fellowship is rich. The men share ideas and resources. More importantly, they share their burdens. They lift one another in prayer.

Through MEDA, God is answering those prayers. He is equipping church leaders, and those leaders are building a spiritual foundation to bless generations.”

We are grateful for the Lord’s blessing here at MEDA and continue to pray that He would be pleased to use this ministry for His honor and glory. Our family is humbled to be a part of this effort to equip men in Central America to be faithful steward’s of God’s Word.

 

Our First Week in Honduras

We have now been in Honduras for one week! We are feeling right at home, except for the language barrier. But praise the Lord we are learning more Spanish each day.  

Honduras is in the middle of its rainy season. It rained almost the entire first five days we have been here. Not only is it raining outside, but due to the poor condition of the roof, it is raining inside also. MEDA will be replacing the roof soon, but it will take awhile. We are staying dry for the most part, however.  We just leave someone behind on “rain duty” if we go anywhere so they can place buckets and move beds.  The leaks are always in different places!  When our container arrives we will use our tarps to cover as much of the roof as possible.  

The other night we also experienced our first power outage. The power goes out at least once a week here. We had a lot of lightning and the power was out for a few hours. It felt like we were back at The Master’s Mission again with no electricity.  Thankfully, we came prepared with flashlights and candles. 

Our container will be arriving at the port this week Lord willing, but we will most likely not be able to receive it here at MEDA until early next week. Mark will need to go down to the port to help clear the container. Since we arrived we learned that Honduras charges a hefty tax on items coming into the country. Our Lord is Sovereign and knew this would happen; we are trusting in Him to supply what is needed. Please continue to pray for the safe arrival of our belongings.  

The boys are making friends quickly, especially Isaiah and Elijah, with their friendly smiles and talkative nature.  Isaiah is a favorite among some of the seminary students at MEDA, and when he cut open his head the other day, word traveled fast, and they all came to the door to make sure “Monkey Boy” was alright. Neither Isaiah nor Elijah seem to understand there is a language barrier and will talk to anyone who stops to listen.  When Isaiah heard that his Sunday School class in the States was learning a song in Spanish, he grew sad and told us, “But, I want to learn a song in Spanish too!”  When we asked him if he sang songs in his Sunday School here in Honduras, he replied, “Yes, but not in Spanish!” 

The older boys are playing soccer everyday and keep Christy busy with their muddy clothes.  They were a little nervous about attending church for the first time, but now are eager to return.  They each went to various classes and a few had help from children who spoke English.  One way they are learning to adapt is getting used to their new names.  While we were out at the store today, a gentleman asked Noah his name.  He quickly replied without hesitating, “Noe (No-ay)”.   

The other families serving at MEDA (Montoyas, Donatos, and Nunez’) have been very hospitable and gracious to our family. We are blessed to be part of a great team of families ministering here in Siguatepeque. We have also enjoyed getting to know some of the workers at MEDA. Roman, one of the maintenance men, has been particularly helpful to Mark in learning Spanish. He speaks very little English and Mark very little Spanish, but they communicate everyday about work projects and tools. Roman’s father, Agustin, works at MEDA also. He has been working on drying and separating the beans the last few days next to our house. Isaiah has been out there several times watching and talking with him.  

It’s a girl! The Patterson family now has a baby girl.  Well, actually a girl puppy. The Nunez family’s dog had puppies about 8 weeks ago and they gave our family one of them.  The boys have wanted a dog for a long time and are really excited.  Chiquita is keeping us occupied until our container arrives. 

Please pray for our family as our bodies get adjusted to living in a new place and eating new foods. We have been experiencing some stomach troubles the last few days, but seem to be on the tail end of it (literally!).

We pray you are growing and delighting in the Lord Jesus Christ.

 

We’re Home

Praise the Lord that we are now in Honduras.  We left the Orlando airport yesterday at 8:30am. Our friends, the Jaebs and Yates took us to the airport to see us off. It was a sad good bye, filled with many tears and hugs.  

We had a connecting flight in Atlanta, Georgia, and had no problems in the airport and took off right on time. We arrived in San Pedro Sula, Honduras around 12:25pm (2:25pm ET). As we landed, Elijah started clapping and saying “Yay!  We are in Honduras!” The whole plane started clapping with him. Again the Lord was gracious and we didn’t have problems getting through customs or obtaining our luggage. We then headed up the mountains to Siguatepeque and arrived at MEDA around 4:00pm. 

 

The other missionary families, along with the seminary students were all outside waiting for us and gave us a warm greeting. It started raining as we were pulling into the MEDA property. All the students helped unload our luggage and placed it in our house. It ended up being one of the biggest rain storms they had in the last few months. Elijah was running around our house joyfully telling everyone, “It’s raining in our house!” Needless to say the roof will be the first priority in getting repaired. The Montoya family is living on the other side of the duplex and has the same problems. Within 15 minutes of arriving at MEDA the boys were playing soccer in the garage with their new friends. 

Pastor Melvin and his family brought us a fruit basket to welcome us to Honduras. Pastor Melvin has been to our church in Florida a few times. One of the missionary families here at MEDA, the Donatos, had an amazing Honduran feast at their home last night to welcome us. The boys enjoyed their first taste of Honduran cuisine. 

Our shipping container should arrive on September 28^th; please pray for a safe arrival of our belongings.  We made our first trip into town alone today to pick up groceries and other items.  It was a great opportunity to practice our Spanish!  We were pleasantly surprised at the variety of food available and found almost everything on our list.  American brands are much more expensive, however, so we will be getting used to the local brands. 

We will spend the next few days settling in and getting our house and the MEDA storage shed ready for our belongings.  On Monday, we will jump right in with our Spanish studies.  Christy and I each have our own tutor.  The boys have already picked up quite a bit just playing with their friends. 

Our family is extremely thankful to everyone who has made it possible for us to be here. Many of you have helped us in tremendous ways – may the Lord bless you for your service to Him.

 

Countdown Begins

A lot has happened in the last two weeks; we had a garage sale, completed our State side processing of our visas, booked our tickets to Honduras, and completed more packing. 

Saturday, August 4^th we had our last garage sale at church. Many people from church donated items to sell and helped by sorting, pricing, cashiering, and much more. We have been so blessed by the love people at our church have shown. 

Last Tuesday, we traveled to Miami to visit the Honduran Consulate.  It was a long day, but well worth it. Our friends the Diaz’s, who live in Miami, watched our boys while Christy and I went to the Consulate office. Here is a picture of Christy and me with the gentleman who processed our paperwork.  

With the visa process complete, we were able to book our plane tickets. We are excited to announce that we will be leaving for Honduras on Wednesday, September 19^th!!!!! We are thankful to the Lord for getting us to this point and for all his provisions.  

This past week we started building special size crates for our appliances. Three other men from church helped on Thursday and Friday evening. While the men were building these crates, the boys were assembling some of the standard crates, and of course playing with their friends when their work was done.  

The Lord has been so good to our family and blessed us in many ways. We are thankful that our tickets have been purchased and that we will arrive in Honduras in 5 ½ weeks. Now for the crunch time to begin!

 

We are Getting Closer

Since we returned from our trip to New York and North Carolina we have been moving at full speed. We had Vacation Bible School at our church last week and this week we are getting ready for our last garage sale before we move. In the midst of all this we have been finalizing our requirements for visas.  

Vacation Bible School went well at church and the word of God was clearly taught to the children. We pray that Christ would indeed be treasured by the kids and that the seed that was sown would be firmly planted in their hearts and lives. We are thankful to the Lord for the children that attended and that our family was able to serve in a small way.  

This past Sunday we visited Grace Bible Church of Tampa, where Mark was asked to preach. It was a great time of fellowship with the believers there and we are thankful to the Lord for His work in that new church.  

This Saturday will be our final yard sale at church to help raise money for our traveling and shipping expenses to Honduras. We have been clearing out all our belongings that we are not taking with us, and people have been donating things to sell. Please pray for good weather on Saturday, as we are in our rainy season.  

We praise the Lord that this week we completed the last document we need to obtain our visas. Next Tuesday we will be taking a trip to Miami to meet with the Honduran Consulate to file our paperwork. Please pray for a good trip and that all will go well. We are thankful to the Lord for getting us to this point; our family is getting more excited as we see things moving along and the departure is getting closer. 

The other day as we were going through our boxes, we found our wedding video. It was fun watching part of it and remembering that special day in our lives. While watching the pastor’s sermon, I wondered about the man who married us, Pastor Mark Lauterbach. I wondered where he was and what he was doing now. One nice thing about living in a time like this is that you can get on your computer and run a search on people. I was very happy to find that he is still a faithful servant of Christ and serving in a church in California. I found he also has a blog where he discusses the Bible.  After reading several of his posts I found one post very helpful and thought provoking. The title of the post is The Gospel Must be Everything; here is part of the article: “The Gospel is about God and what he has done in order that we will be saved from wrath. It is not about our sense of purpose in life or our sense of meaning. It is not about our psychological problems – our “issues” as we say. It is about something far deeper – it is called sin. It is not about our needs – it is about our standing before the God who is the Creator and Judge of all. It is not a therapy, it is a blood sacrifice. It is not moral advice for the well meaning, it is resurrection of the dead.” 

“The Gospel is stunning because our sin was great. Our sin is great because it is against a glorious God. It did not take the death of the Son of God to give us good feelings or purpose in life. The issue was sin, and the everlasting ruin that lay before us in judgment of sin. If God wanted to make us feel better about ourselves he would not have wasted his Son’s life for that. But sin is such a great evil that it required such a One to be our Savior.”   

I know that some people reading this blog don’t know Christ and have not understood your sin in the presence of a Holy God; I pray that you would see your sin against Him and understand that Jesus bore the wrath and punishment that you deserve. The only way to escape eternal wrath is to embrace Christ as your Savior and find safety in Him. Do you treasure Him today or are you treasuring your sin and the things of this world?

 

Travels, Packing, and More

What a great God we serve! The last two weeks we had the opportunity to travel to New York to visit Mark’s mom and to North Carolina to spend a week at The Master’s Mission. Josiah and Caleb joined up with our youth group from church for summer camp at TMM . We had a great time in both states. 

While visiting Mark’s mom we took a trip to Canada to see Niagara Falls. What an amazing site of God’s handiwork. We were able to walk down behind and to the side of the falls. We also enjoyed staying at her place on Conesus Lake. On Sunday, we visited Clarkson Community Church where Mark was asked to speak about our ministry in Honduras. We had a great time with the believers there and really appreciated their generosity and hospitality.  

We had a great time with our Youth Group in North Carolina.  There were 45 kids participating from two different churches. The boys had a blast and enjoyed the teaching of God’s Word, work projects, and games.  

We are continuing to prepare for Honduras. This past week we have had eye appointments, doctor appointments, built and packed more crates, contacted shipping companies, and much more.  As you can imagine there is much work involved in moving overseas. In the next few weeks we will be involved in a church wide garage sale and Vacation Bible School. We pray that the Lord will use this ministry to draw children to Himself.   

We are thankful to the Lord for His many provisions in our lives and allowing us to serve Him in Honduras. We are hoping to leave in early September, depending on when we obtain visas. 

New on the Blog 

We have added a few new items to our website.

• Current weather in Siguatepeque Honduras
• Satellite image of our location in Honduras
• New family picture on the About Us page
• Support Form