[TeenMinistry] Honduras Group - Thursday night

Greetings from Tegucigalpa Honduras.

 

I am on a really slow internet connection…so try not to read this too fast J

 

We arrived safely yesterday afternoon around 4:30 (CDT).  We only lost 3 bags…one of them was the bag with Jeremiah’s clothes in them L  so he’s doing laundry tonight.    We started out feasting with our old group from Indianapolis.  It was their last night and there is a nice open-air restaurant that has really good food.  It was good to see old friends and hear of their experiences over the past week.  They spent most of their time in a little village called Izopo where we have helped a fledgling church for the past 4 years.  It is a small agricultural community about 10 miles south of Tegucigalpa while climbing from an altitude of 6000 to about 9000 feet.  It takes about 1.5 hours to get there so no other groups go.  The church is growing.  For the first time when they were there, there were some baptisms.  2 of the elders and one of the teens from North Central were privileged to baptize 7 souls into Christ.  The hard work is paying off and relationships are forming through return visits.  Significantly, at least one of the baptisms was a male and there are other males who are beginning to show interest in the Gospel – the reason that is important for the same reason that it’s important in the states – when fathers lead – their families will follow – and there is no more important task that a father has than to make Christ known in his family!  The group held VBS, a medical clinic, food give-away for 180 families and build approximately 6  houses.   The 40 people from the North Central group left this morning and should be enjoying their soft beds, ice and drinking out of the tap while brushing their teeth by now.  Our little group and a few others will go to Izopo tomorrow (at least that is the plan right now  - we are in Honduras remember and plans change quickly!) to finish 2 houses and perhaps start another one.

 

Today we spent  the day at Jovenes en Camino (Children on the Way).  It is a boys home that takes in orphaned boys who were most likely living on the streets of Tegucigalpa and gives them a secure environment in which to learn of Christ love for them as well as schooling and a trade so they will be come productive contributors to society.  We spent the day with a group of 40 from the Oakcrest Church in Oklahoma City pouring concrete, tying rebar and playing with kids.

 

I have some pictures but the connection is way too slow to upload them.

 

Thank you for your prayers…we are all doing well.  Will try to report again soon.  As you all worship together Sunday without air-conditioning, you can be assured that your brothers and sisters in Honduras will be without air-conditioning as well…but we will be together in Christ…how awesome!!!

 

(Families of the group – we should be able to contact you by phone sometime Saturday night or Sunday night). 

 

 

 

Because of the Cross,

Mike

 

 

 

Mike Brown

Youth & Family Minister

Lafayette Church of Christ

115 New Ballwin Rd.

Ballwin, MO  63021

636.391.6697 - office

636.394.2338 - fax

mike.brown@lafayettechurch.org