Missions Quote

Saw this on Gina's Facebook page (she is in Kurdistan teaching English and preaching the gospel)...


"Some want to live within the sound
of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop
within a yard of hell."

- C. T. Studd
missionary to China, India, Africa

Honduras Support Update & Trip Details

Support Update!: 

Thank you so much for praying for Sarah Jo Spears (my roommate / fellow GBC church member who will now serve with me in Honduras) and I,  and for the people of Honduras. The Lord has provided what I personally need for the trip through everyone's support. Praise God! And thank you! 

Trip Dates: July 27 - Aug. 10th. 
Trip Details: Sarah-Jo and I will serve with the Patterson family at MEDA seminary, Immanuel Baptist Church, and the Immanuel Children's Day Home in Siguatepeque, Honduras....aaaaaand....

New News!: 
We will ALSO visit the remote mountain town of El Buen Pastor (The Good Shepherd) for 2 days to share the gospel and run a small clinic. Most of the people there suffer from malnutrition, and most (if not all) do not know the gospel of Jesus Christ at all. The Patterson family has made a few trips to El Buen Pastor this year (see pics below). 

In Las Lagunas, a neighboring mountain town to El Buen Pastor, last summer (2010)

If you would still like to give to the trip, you can purchase the following items or give me or Sarah-Jo money so we can purchase them. The Immanuel Baptist Children's Day Home can also use materials for the children if you're able to support them. (SN: Daniel Calder (dpcalder@mail.usf.edu) can sell you these items and he will give a percentage of what he makes to the mission trip as well.)

The people in the town of El Buen Pastor:
• Adult multivitamins
• Children’s multivitamins (NOT the gummy kind as they melt and stick together)
• Pain medication (Advil or ibuprofen),
• Tums
• Neosporin
• De-worming medication
• Tongue depressors
We may also need to purchase a new otoscope for the clinic...
Immanuel Baptist Children’s Day Home:
• children's socks
• children's flip-flops
• children's underwear

Children of El Buen Pastor listening to the Bible on the Mini-Proclaimer. It's the little black box sitting on the rock next to the girls feet.

Mark Patterson teaching a memory verse to the kids of El Buen Pastor. He told them they would be back in 5 days and encouraged them to have the verse memorized by then. Psalm 86:10 "For You are great and perform wonders; You alone are God."

Thank you again and just let me know if you have any questions at all :D

Ouch

This hurt. But it was encouraging too.

Paul Washer on Missions

"Young man, go somewhere and die, that only God and Hell will know your name. God because He loves you and His Spirit is powerful upon you. And Hell because Hell hates you. Go somewhere and preach the gospel."

"If you know the Word really well, and you're just perfect...and your thinking and your logic is just pristine...but you're not a man of prayer, you're not worth two cents in the kingdom of heaven."

Hearts of Darkness

"When the sun is shining in all its beauty, who are the ones that are unconscious of the fact? Who need to be told it is shining? The blind! How tragic, then, when we read that God sent John to 'bear witness of the light.' How pathetic that there should be any need for this! How solemn the statement that men have to be told 'the light' is now in their midst. What a revelation of man's fallen condition."

- A.W. Pink commentary on John 1:7


see also John Calvin's commentary on Matthew 6:22-23.

Honduras Part 2

“Say among the nations, ‘The Lord reigns!’”

–Psalm 96:10

This summer I have another opportunity to serve the church in Siguatepeque, Honduras for two weeks near the end of July. The Patterson family, missionaries who I served with for three weeks last summer, will host me. I will be serving the children of the Immanuel Baptist Day Home, a free daycare service for single mothers. I will also be helping with any projects at MEDA, the seminary that trains Central American pastors. I’m also excited to help with anything else that is needed in the Immanuel Baptist Church and with the Patterson family.

Please PRAY that the gospel will be proclaimed accurately to the children and anyone else we meet, that I will serve selflessly, and that God will receive every ounce of glory for everything He does this summer in Honduras.

Will you also prayerfully consider financially supporting me to go? I will need about $900 by July 5^th to purchase a plane ticket and to pay for my housing.

Thank you for your prayers and support, and please contact me if you have any questions or encouragements!

You can send checks to me at:

11711 N. 50^th St. Apt. 207A

Tampa, FL 33617