First
Baptist Church of Portland, TN
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Honduras Mission Team January 13 thru January 24 2004
Welcome Home Mission Team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
01/13 - The first team arrived in Honduras and everyone is fine.
01/14 - No update - possible email / internet problems
01/15 - Good News - We have the following update from Gary Lamberth & the Early Team:
Middle TN Outreach Mission 2004
1-14-04
The advance team has arrived safely in Honduras, Central America. Our
first job was to unload all the materials that many caring people had donated
to help the mission. The first community center building has been loaded onto
a truck and taken to Loma de Suissa for construction. It has been raining
here, so we had to have a bulldozer push the truck to the top of the hill
where it is to be constructed. With God's help we accomplished this task.
This building will be constructed by Saturday. Our plans are to have ten
church services there Sunday to minister to a community of about 12-15,000
people
The ladies on the early team started immediately sorting and sizing all of
the donated clothing. When the rest of the team arrives this clothing will be
distributed to all the communities we will touch over the next few days.
The Honduran cable television crew came by this afternoon to interview us
concerning the crusade we will organize for four nights next week. There are
200,000 people in this town. We pray that those who do not come out for
revival will gather at televisions and tune in to this station next week.
We have traveled to all of the places the team members will be staying.
All is prepared and the host families are anxiously awaiting everyone's
arrival.
The medical clinics should be well supplied. We have the medicine shipped
down on the container unloaded and lists of what is being brought in team's
luggage. We were not able to bring wormer and lice medication which both were
needs here. Of course God provided and we found a pharmaceutical supplier in
San Padre Sula where we purchased these two things.
We are staying in Villa Nueva as will the rest of team when they arrive.
It is located about 18 miles southwest of San Padre Sula. This location is
centrally located to all of the villages that we will set up in for one day of
church services and medical treatment.
Please continue your prayers for us as we need God to continue to work out
the details of so much work to do in such a small amount of time.
Pray that many hearts will be touched by the Bibles we have brought, services
that will be held, door to door witnessing that small groups will do and the
many lives that will come in to contact with our team members one on one.
We will try to e-mail pictures as soon as possible so that you will be
able to see the work being done.
God Bless,
Gary Lamberth & the Early Team
01/16- The following was sent by Pastor Greg McCoy this afternoon -
We are trying to send a picture from Honduras. Hope it works!!!!
Things continue to go well. two beautiful days. hot today. first and largest
building is almost complete. 20 x 48 feet on top of loma de suesa, a very poor
community of several thousand.
Accommodations are great. Eating is great. Rest of team arrives tomorrow. so
far so good
Click here for the first photo sent
01/16- The following was sent by Gary Lamberth this afternoon also -
Update 1-16-04
When constructing the first community center the men have combined the
material for two barns and made a larger center that will be able to service
more people. The rain has subsided for now and progress on this project is
going very well. It looks like it will still be completed by the time the
rest of team arrives even though it was twice the job.
Karen & Peggy have organized all of the clothing by size. What a job this
was! Now, the clothing is ready to be handed out to the Honduran people. It
will go so much smoother. The ladies also sorted all of the medicine that was
shipped early. This will make it easier for the pharmacy to go ahead and
setup, but the rest must be organized when it arrives. Karen & Peggy are now
measuring out the lice & wormer medication into 4oz bottles. Each will be
enough to treat an entire family. If you have a rechargeable clipper set,
please bring it. Some Honduran mothers may just prefer we shave their boys'
heads.
Sleeping arrangements have been made for all the team members. Earlier some
host families had been very generous to open their homes to us. We appreciate
them being so loving, but logistically it was going to be challenging. Now,
all the men will be staying at the church and all the women will all be
staying at Antoinette's home. This is the woman who is 3rd in Congress and
has also opened her kitchen to the team. Each day the bus will bring the men
to her home and we will all eat there before going to work. I am sure she
will need assistance from us preparing so much food.
We have a praise update. Nineteen people were saved with street witnessing.
Thank you for your prayers. We are excited about the rest of the team joining
us and being able to witness to so many more in the upcoming week.
I'm sure everyone is getting anxious about leaving. Just some housekeeping
things...please remind everyone to bring a set of sheets, towel & washcloth.
Most of us will be sleeping on foam mattresses. You will need to bring all the
batteries and film you think you'll need. You also should bring snacks to
carry with you during the day. Our days will be long. Also, Antoinette does
have a swimming pool. Since the ladies will be staying there, it may be that
she offers to let you swim. I don't know. But, please bring a one piece
bathing suit if you choose to bring one.
If you have any questions, just call a team member who has been before. We
look forward to meeting the rest of the team at the airport.
God Bless,
Gary Lamberth
01/17 - No updates
01/18 - The following was sent by Pastor Greg McCoy this evening -
The rest of the team arrived safely on Saturday afternoon. After getting
settled in and doing a little work, we were treated to some ice cream in San
Pedro Sula! Everyone was tired from the early morning and rested well last
night.
Today began the medical clinics, preaching services, and other ministry. To be
seen in the medical clinic, receive prescriptions, and eyeglasses, the people
had to first sit through a short worship service where the gospel was shared
by six different preaches. (One preacher per service!) We held 15 services
today counting 6 childrens services. Some 200 people professed Christ as
Savior and Lord today! 1200+ were treated by the one doctor and many nurses.
An untold number of eye glass were distributed.
While it was snowing in Portland this morning, it was 90+ degrees in Loma de
Suesa where your team was today! The team worked extremely hard and the Lord
has been faithful to provide our needs and more.
The Honduran people are extremely appreciative of our efforts, both the ones
being ministered to as well as our hosts because we have come to minister to
their countrymen.
Pictures will soon follow!
Adios!
Bro. Greg
Prayer Request - Bro Greg has also asked for your prayers for more interrupters/translators.
01/18 - The following was sent by Pat Harrell of Union Chapel Church -
January 18, 2004
saved is the one Honduran lady in the picture by herself)
01/19 - The following was sent by Joshua Bruce on 01/19 8:30pm January 19,2004 Greetings! It was another great day. We adjusted a little better to today with a better night's sleep. We left to go into two villages today. This morning we were at Chesnigua and this afternoon we were at Avocado (like the dip). These villages were not nearly as large as Colina de Suisa from yesterday, but there was still a great need. We were separated from the construction group today and I'll try to get some pics of them tomorrow. Our numbers for today were as follows between the two villages: 320 registered for services 1177 prescriptions filled 77 pairs of glasses given out 32 saved in church services and street evangelism That's all for tonight. We hope you are all well and safe. Everyone says "hello" and "We love you." Keep us in your prayers. Talk to you again tomorrow night. 01/20- The following was sent by Joshua Bruce on 01/20 10:30pm
January 20, 2004 Day 4 of Honduras Trip Today was another good day. It began raining around 2:30 a.m. and kept on throughout the day, so things were pretty muddy as you can see from most of the pictures. The dirt roads up the mountain became more difficult to travel to the remote locations and the building site was pretty messy.(see pics) The medical, pharmacy, glasses and evangelical groups were at the village of San Isidro. We registered a little more than 400 people for services. There were 15 saved in church services and about as many saved in street evangelism. Many prescriptions were filled and glasses were distributed. Children's church was very popular with clothes being handed out after each service. Dozens of bibles and children's bibles were distributed. The building group erected structures yesterday and today. The first four pictures are of a building put up yesterday. The guys had a very long day to finish the building shown from beginning to end yesterday. Today, with the weather not cooperating, they were slowed down a bit, but managed to get very far along on the building shown in pictures 5-7. Picture 8 shows the home of a neighboring lady that allowed our crew to use her restroom facilities. She also cooked our guys lunch. This is the unbelievable, welcoming attitude we have experienced from these people on the entire trip.
Click here for photos sent and a brief description from Joshua
01/20
01/21 - The following was sent by Pastor Greg McCoy -
Wed. 1/21/04 From Pastor Greg McCoy The revival meeting went great last night. The Spirit of the Lord was heavy on the church. Their worship through music was very good. Praise band, good worship leader, very welcoming to our team. Gary shared a brief testimony. Some of our group sang along with a cd, and I got to preach. We are expecting another great night of worship and the Spirit’s moving, tonight and tomorrow. I have a 17 year old young lady by the name of Christian interpreting for me. We practiced at 5 oclock and she did an excellent job. The first time for her to interpret for a crowd larger than 30. There were somewhere around 400 to 500 there I think. 12 saved, and other decisions made. Christian has been in bi-lingual school all her life and is now in the university. They only go through 11th grade here. Her english is so good, it sounds like she has spent some time in the states, but has never been. I told her she would have to come and visit with our family and showed her a picture of all of you. She even tried to get the voice inflections to match mine. I was thoroughly impressed, which helped me do well. The Lord has provided interpreters. Thanks for the prayers! We have at least 6 very good ones. This is helping our doctors and nurses to understand real needs. Our construction team framed another building in the rain yesterday. Total mess. Extremely muddy. So, no construction today. Too dangerous. We have had a few sick people most of whom are getting well today. Thursday, we will work another clinic location and Friday is our day off. We will travel to Copan and visit the Aztec Indian ruins for some site seeing. And then, flying home on Saturday!!!! 01/21- The following was sent by Joshua Bruce 8:00pm January 21, 2004 Today we were in the village of El Venado. This group of people was very receptive to the Word. People were aggressively coming forward on altar calls with tears in their eyes. There was no question they "got it." There were over 400 people seen with 35 saved in eight church services and 5 saved in street evangelism. Children's church was very popular again with some supplies running out. Keep that in mind for next year, because we still have one more village to visit. Picture number six is of a lady that missed us the day before and found out where we were today. She was saved in a church service today! A lady that has been working for the lady hosting us all week, attended a church service and got saved! There are some good pictures of the mountains in this package. God Bless and continue to pray for us. P.S. We're all nearing the point of being ready to come home. 01/22 - The following was sent by Pat Harrell January 22, 2004 Today we were in the village of Maranon. These people were similarly receptive to the Word much like the people from yesterday. The construction crew finished up their building from yesterday and began another one. We registered very nearly 1,100 people today with ten adult church services, four children's services, numerous prescriptions filled and many eyeglasses given out. The first picture is of Aida Munoz and Bro. Mike Brady. She was the youngest of 59 souls saved by the grace of God in our church services and street evangelism, today. God Bless and continue to pray for us. We are now definitely ready to come home. Pat Harrell
01/23- No update
01/24- No update as of 10:00 am - the following is there schedule today
Welcome Home Mission Team!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just a little of what
we will be doing in Honduras:
up and
discipleship. volunteers from several different dominations/churches.
Departure and Arrival Schedule (Honduras is in the Central Standard Time Zone)
Maps and cities our Missionaries are working in
Some Honduran cities we will be working in are:
planters) - hope to meet up with them!
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