God has taught me a lot this week so far. I came here with several foreign mission trips under my belt, but with that came expectations that some things would be the same as I was used to. God’s reminded me that different ministries work in different ways and I need to humble myself and serve Him with my whole heart, even if things aren’t what I thought they would be. He’s shown me about myself as well, my heart is discipleship and building relationships, but He has used me in doing other ways of evangelism as well. One lady stood next to her fridge and allowed me to walk her through the Gospel message and decided to accept Christ as Lord and Savior. Through nothing we are doing, just being obedient, we have been blessed to see people come to know the Lord and that’s what life as a Christian is all about. And to know that the people will be followed up with and discipled gives me a peace to just be a part of the harvest.
The younger team members and I had a great time at the bilingual school as well. I am so proud of our youth and encouraged my their strong faith at young ages. Collin, Isaiah, and Christiana are key members of our team. At the school we shared to all the older students about the differences in schools in the US and Collin shared the Gospel with them. When we asked for questions the first boy asked what we ate for lunch, but the second and subsequent questions were deep spiritual ones. What is Jesus’ love? How do I get forgiven? What is spiritual growth? We were blown away by these middle/highschool kids’ hunger for the truths of God. And when we broke off and talked to the kids less formally one kid would ask us a question and then before we could finish answering 10 kids would be huddled around us listening to us quote scripture and answer their questions. It was awesome.
Now we’re leaving in a few minutes to do our second run door-to-door so I’ve gotta wrap this up. Pray for us as we go to the homes and then later tonight we’ll have the women’s/men’s conference in the same area. I’m sharing the Gospel presentation for the ladies that come, and it feels different than preparing to share with kiddos. We appreciate all your prayers! You’re a part of this mission team in Honduras!
Cathy, Whether red, yellow, black or white they are precious is His sight. I doesn’t matter what end of the earth you are Jesus loves them all and I thank God for loving them through you.
Charlayne
I am SO glad you are on this trip. It is exciting to hear how God is growing you.