This is our last week in Honduras!

We are definitely into "crunch time" as we continue to pack, say our 'goodbyes,' and get ready for our flight on Sunday, April 25.  

Honduras has a very sweet custom of "despedida" or farewell parties. Everybody wants to get together to say goodbye... and maybe get together again!  While everyone says they'll do social distancing and face masks, nobody actually wants to say goodbye standing six feet apart or wearing a mask.  So, we turn this over to the Lord for His protection.

We have been extremely blessed, over and over, by people sharing how they have been personally blessed by the Lord through the Lord's ministry here!  This should be a great blessing to you knowing that individuals and whole churches have grown spiritually, have been challenged, have become more committed to God and His Word because of the ministry you have supported faithfully.  

As we say our goodbyes it is very encouraging to see the excitement as we explain that we will still be with Equip and plan on returning in the future, hopefully with small teams.  Through the years we have constantly purposed in loving the people and in this time of goodbyes the love between us is evident and sweet.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another."  1John 4:7-21

Tablets to Baptisms!

When the schools were closed in 2020 the youth in the CFI program wanted to keep learning, and the Lord gave me and Carlos a plan to make this happen.  We purchased 10 tablets for the students to share in small groups meeting in homes.  The lessons would be given on a memory card taken around by Carlos each week.

As a result of these tablets, CFI was the only school program in the district of La Paz to actually complete the school year.  Also, Christian media, like The Bible Project, was included and made part of their writing assignments.  

One measure of the success of the program is that this year the registration of new students has doubled.  This is exciting and comes with the need for more tablets.  Our home church in Maryland met this need enabling the purchase of 12 more tablets! Praise the Lord!

Of these youths in the CFI program only two profess to be Christians.  This has been an exciting opportunity for us to share and love on the students in the hope that some would be saved... and now that has happed!

"To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some."  1Cor 9:22

Tablets to Baptisms (continued)

Just two weeks ago three of the CFI students were baptized after making a public confession of accepting Christ!

We have been working alongside the CFI program for several years doing crafts, having talks about Scripture, challenging them to accept Christ. At the beginning of this year no one had made a profession of Christ... until now!  

Do we think the tablets were the key to them accepting Christ?  NO!  The Holy Spirit is the key! Thank you for your faithful prayerful intercession. The tablets are a minor part of a greater whole with the inner core, the outer edge, and the filling in between being God! 

Rejoice with us over these new brothers in Christ!

"Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." Mark 16:16

Team Honduras!!