Summer-link Honduras update: week two cont.

Buenas tardes from Balfate, Honduras! We are two weeks into our trip and all of us have really enjoyed our time here.  God has given us many opportunities to build relationships with the people here (locals and other missionaries) and to share the gospel.  The Pirkle family has been very generous to us; we are blessed to be on mission with them here in Honduras. 

At the bilingual school we have been able to share the word of God and teach about the character of God by means of teaching English.  As Ceci mentioned in the previous post, I had the opportunity of talking with a kid named Joni at the school.  After talking with him for a few minutes I found out that he was a follower of Christ.  He talked to me about how he tells other people about the love of God, but many of them do not want to have anything to do with God.  I read to him the passage in John 15 where Jesus tells the disciples that the world will hate them because of him, and I was able to encourage him through that.   

Wednesday at the school, a group of us were in the 6^th grade classroom and the principal lead the students in singing “This is the Day that the Lord Has Made” in four different languages.  Right after that she used a story quilt to lead the class in a song that essentially outlined the events of redemptive history.  We were very encouraged to know that we were not the only ones trying teach the students about the goodness of God. 

Yesterday we went to a nearby community soccer field and had around a hundred people show up.  Some of us played soccer with the locals, while a couple people from our team were able to share the gospel with some bystanders.  We are really hoping to build relationships with the people and be proactive with the opportunities God gives us to share the gospel.

  This morning we helped the Pirkle family and other missionaries put on a 5K race to raise money for the Hospital.  The idea of a 5k race was clearly foreign to the locals, but God provided and we had a great turn out! Afterwards we headed out for the dump in La Ceiba, but after twenty minutes of driving we got a flat tire and were held up for over an hour.  Because of this, we didn’t have time to continue to the dump, but God is still sovereign.  God has certainly been working in each of our lives and has upheld the spiritual unity of our group.  Please pray that God would continue to give us opportunities to share the gospel, and to encourage the other missionaries here.  Pray that God would give us the strength we need to carry out His plan for us here, and to spur each other on in faith.

This post was written by JC Spearman