We returned home from Honduras last night.
The word "WOW" just really doesn't convey all that occured or happened during the week. And it may take a few posts to summarize everything.
Many of the teens were worried about the food. Let me just say, we were fed like royalty. The pastor's wife cooked every meal for us (we slept/stayed at the Iglesia Bautista Nazarete). And her prayer request was that none of the Norte Americano's would get sick from her cooking. The church traveled many miles to purchase familiar food for us such as Corn Flakes, pancake mix, iced tea mix. We had fried fish, fried chicken, traditional Honduran meals, and developed a new dish we call the 'DillonBreakfast Burrito' which is a corn flakes, sliced bananas and honey rolled up in a pancake. No one got sick and one of the boys (who will remain nameless) even said "this is better than my Mom's home cooking" - while another stated "this beats Taco Bell".
The second prayer request was for boldness. And here is where I truly stand amazed. Each of us, each day had the opportunity to be bold in our witness. We spoke in schools, presented the gospel, and saw a harvest of souls. We picked up trash, and met people on the side of the road and saw do an incredible work of saving souls. We played soccer, went to the marketplace, went to the parks, even at the pool - and everywhere we went, God paved the way and the team was bold in presenting the gospel.
And my main prayer request was that we would serve in a church that had a plan for our week. Boy, oh boy, did our pastor have a plan. The pastor had planned opportunities for us to serve each and every day - from preaching, to school programs, to playing soccer (with a few pros), to picking up trash, to making door-to-door visits with church members, to witnessing in the parks/marketplace - we did not have a dull or unplanned moment.
One of the teens stated to me in a slightly amazed/astonished voice "God REALLY answered all of our prayers!" And if there is anything I can pray that we all learned last week was this - God hears the prayers of the righteous. Thanks for the prayers - will share more later.
The word "WOW" just really doesn't convey all that occured or happened during the week. And it may take a few posts to summarize everything.
Let me recap just a bit - Our church (First Baptist McKinney) takes a spring break mission trip for the youth called AWOL (A Work of Love). This year's trip was to Siguatepeque, Honduras and we took 71 young people and adults. After 21 hours of travel (drove from Dallas to Houston, flew to Miami, flew to San Pedro Sula, bus ride to Siguatepeque) we divided into multiple teams to work with churches in the area.
My team of Deanna, Elizabeth, Kenzie, Anna Lauren, Dillon, Andrew, Landon, and Sutton, along with our incredible translator, Jose from El Salvador, went to Jesus de Otoro - a small village outside of Siguatepeque. The town is in a beautiful valley surrounded by moutains and fields of coffee beans. The only paved road in town is the highway that runs through the town. Dogs, chickens, cattle, pigs roam the streets freely - and the first lesson we learned in Honduras is that roosters crow all night long (whoever told me that roosters only crow at sunrise obviously has never been to Honduras).
As I mentioned in my last post, the team had 3 major prayer concerns and I wanted to let you know that God answered those prayers abundantly.
The second prayer request was for boldness. And here is where I truly stand amazed. Each of us, each day had the opportunity to be bold in our witness. We spoke in schools, presented the gospel, and saw a harvest of souls. We picked up trash, and met people on the side of the road and saw do an incredible work of saving souls. We played soccer, went to the marketplace, went to the parks, even at the pool - and everywhere we went, God paved the way and the team was bold in presenting the gospel.
And my main prayer request was that we would serve in a church that had a plan for our week. Boy, oh boy, did our pastor have a plan. The pastor had planned opportunities for us to serve each and every day - from preaching, to school programs, to playing soccer (with a few pros), to picking up trash, to making door-to-door visits with church members, to witnessing in the parks/marketplace - we did not have a dull or unplanned moment.
One of the teens stated to me in a slightly amazed/astonished voice "God REALLY answered all of our prayers!" And if there is anything I can pray that we all learned last week was this - God hears the prayers of the righteous. Thanks for the prayers - will share more later.
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