Hi, everyone. our second week here in Chloma Honduras is whinding down. Thank you for all your prayers! I’m already thinking how much I want to stay here. The Lord has been teaching us a lot and we are soaking it all in. We have been helping out with childrens ministry in pastor Gregarios church where we meet with the children for a few hours. Its called His Hands for Honduras, then we have a break and the pastors wife Fransisca, cooks all are meals. After that we go again for 2 hours. But Wednesday through Friday we just did ministry in the morning. Then on Saturday we went to a place that helped out with senors who need help with food since they can’t afford it. We sang them songs and they heard a sermon. Also they got served a meal and I got to pray for several of them. On sunday the 19th we had are sabbath and went to a pool.
Honestly right now it just feels like we are the ones getting served. Like I said they cook all are meals. Pastor Gregario and his family have opened up there home and have been really accomadating. If this isn’t love I don’t know what is.This isn’t the first team that they have let stay here either, they regularly open up there home to racers, we are his 5th team. Also they do it with joy. They just love to feed and serve us! It has been a joke among us. Sometimes we will just look at eachother in awe when they do something nice for us and then someone will say “all they do is feed us and serve us!’ The children have been challenging since they don’t know english and we don’t have translators. It makes ministry very difficult but God is bigger than any language barrier. We are trying hard to come up with ideas to engage the kids.
As far as me. I am doing well. I like a lot of people, I know have gone into this year wanting to see miracles, signs and wonders of God. You hear stories of people going on mission trips and they see transforming things. But I have to remember it is all for love. Not to see something. Its not about any one person it is for Gods glory Ephesians 2:12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the, PRAISE OF THE GLORY OF HIS GRACE. In other words the grace we have been shown is to be Gods glory.
We have had a lot of free time as I shared on my last post. Consequenlty I have spent a lot of time with God and he has shown me a word “abide”. Also he wants me to be patient. His scripture promises that we will do amazing things in His name. I just read that Peter healed a man by telling him to get up and walk. Just like Jesus said we will do greater works than his (John 14:12). If we believe, we can make the impossible possible. Or maybe you see someone become a totally different person the moment you pray with them to give there life to christ. Whetever the work, Gods hand is in it.
But what God has been teaching me is patience. What did Jesus do before he was doing ministry? That is a question I asked myself a lot. Recently that question has been anwsered. The bible says the Holy Spirit came upon him when He was baptized by John the Baptist. Then he started making diciples and healing the nation of sin. Scholars say he was around his 30s. So what was he doing before then. When Jesus did miracles in his hometown the people of Nazereth were like what! Isn’t he the carpenters son (Matthew 13:55)? He wasn’t famous yet at that time. What he was doing was humbly serving from his young years all the way up and until God called him to bigger and better things. He was empathizing with us as Mike Donehey puts it. I almost didn’t go on the race when I felt the Holy spirit reveal this to me. I knew that in that moment God wanted me to humbly serve under my coworkers and under my parents at least for a year and I felt like I did a terrible job at that. Theres a lot more too it, but i’ll leave it at that.
Long story short I’m here and I’m glad I am. God has continued to remind me that I need to contunially “wait on him”. I want to see Gods amazing work unfold right in front of my eyes but I know that I need to continue to learn how to rest in him. I am confident he will work through me if I wait for his timing and not try and play the Holy Spirit. Sometimes I always want to make things happen when God is like “hey I will make it happen, do you trust me that I will make it happen.God making something happen could mean, hearing from him anwser a prayer or prayers. Wanting him to fulfill a promise. Wanting to see healings, wanting to be transformed in a area of my life. Wanting a vison or a dream. Whatever it is, it all goes back to faith. We have been saved by grace through faith and faith will continue to sustain me. Not by trying to do better. But by resting and patiently waiting, which should be easy becuse all were doing is being served!
P.S I hope this made sense. It all fits real well in my head, but when I try to put it on paper it his hard. Just know the holy spirit is revealing these things to me and it is very deep and hard to fit in a small letter.
Would love prayer for the language barrier. That God would continue to help us serve our hosts with honor. To help me grasp that God wants me and loves me. Also for our whole team. Thank you!
