On our way!
On March 10th,
at around midnight, we will be arriving at the Montreal airport. We’ll be in
Canada for six months, then returning to help with church leadership
development here once again.
This has
been a great learning experience for us. As well, we have been able to make a
lot of friends in the Honduran churches.
During the
last three months I have had the privilege of leading a group of leaders in the
Nuevo Pacto church through a Homiletics course. Last Thursday five of the six students,
who finished the course, including the pastor, preached a very short sermon to
the gathered church, and I wrote some evaluations for their personal
consideration. I was glad to see that at least three of them had grasped the
principles that I had been trying to teach.
I continue to help pastor Hector with the leadership courses that are being facilitated for the pastors of the Central region of Honduras. One of these pastors is Francisco García, pastor of Nuevo Pacto church where I taught the Homiletics course. That is the first church I will be helping when we come back.
Pastor Francisco Garcia of Nuevo Pacto church
Lise and I
spent the day last Saturday in Tegucigalpa, giving a conference to MER a group
of young people, many of them University students. MER stands for “Misiones
Extremas y Radicales” (Extreme and Radical Missions). Lise took the girls apart
for part of the afternoon, while I chatted with the fellows. These
conversations, we both felt, were probably the best part of the conference.
They have asked us to return when we come back in six months.
These youngsters will walk for hours through the mountains to reach villages where they will stay over and evangelize. They often end up staying overnight, or for several nights in difficult and unsanitary conditions in order to reach the people of those villages.
These youngsters will walk for hours through the mountains to reach villages where they will stay over and evangelize. They often end up staying overnight, or for several nights in difficult and unsanitary conditions in order to reach the people of those villages.
Group of Extreme and Radical Missionaries!
MER participants preparing pupusas for lunch
Our
daughter Annie who lives in Sherbrooke, Quebec, has been working on both the
housing and transportation questions for us, and things have been falling into
place. (Our other daughter, Melodie, who lives here in Siguatepeque, will be
looking for housing for us for when we come back: two well placed daughters J ).
We are looking forward to meeting with you all.
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