Peaceful Elections

The people celebrated all week in election rallies around the country. Today Pepe was elected with over 55% in a peaceful election process. Now everyone in Honduras has high hopes that everything will go back to normal.

I started thinking about a visit to the mountains a year ago. I went with the outreach pastor, Jorge. We took the bus from the farm town to La Esperanza about twenty minutes away to catch the bus to Monte Verde. We spent the night is a wood shack of a building with a tin roof. It was mostly air tight and didn’t leak much. We hung hammocks from wall to wall to sit and sleep. As a lay there I began to think of the people on the top of the mountain with sticks as walls and thatch as roofs. A heavy rain came early that night and I thought, ‘I am glad that I had a tin roof to keep it dry in side. Then I thought about the people with thatch roofs mostly leaking and making mud out of the dirt floors. After the rain stopped the wind started blowing it was chilly and I was very glad to have the nice wood plank walls. I was tucked into my sleeping bag nice and warm. I was praising God that I was dry and warm. Then my mind turned back to the people in the mountains four hours hike from where we were sleeping. I know they were cold in the stick huts. Some put mud in the cracks to try to abide the winds but that doesn’t last for long. And the wind in the mountains is strong and cold. The people are friendly and open to the gospel. Providing better housing and knowledge to improve their crops brings a chance to share knowledge to improve their spiritual lives as well.

Despite the accidents it has been a great month!

Poor Melissa! Read all about her accidents at http://www.heavensreach.org/newsletters/200911.pdf

Mudding for Jesus!

In the US most truck and suv owners do not off road. Others look for places to go and test their stills. Some even go to a course that is designed with that in mind. Here in Honduras we do not have to go looking. We do mudding on the roads and test our skills just to get to a location to build a church or have a medical clinic.

If you enjoy the outdoors and want to enjoy great sensory think about coming to Honduras instead of Colorado next summer. You will be blessed while you help the people of Honduras.

Going as fast as you can and still only going 30 miles in 2 hours to reach a village for Christ.

That’s mudding for Jesus……..

For more information about trips to Honduras go to http://www.heavensreach.org/shorterm.htm

Total Immersion

We started language school 2 weeks ago and I’m amazed at what we’ve learned. I’m also amazed at how different it is than I thought it would be. We chose a language school in La Ceiba Honduras for many reasons, but the 2 primary reasons were that the school was a Total Immersion school and that it had a medical program which would allow me to learn the medical terminology and work with local doctors and hospitals.

My thoughts of being in Spanish school were that we would be in class 4 hours a day, do homework for a couple of hours in the afternoon and then we’d hang out at the (click here to read the rest of this story)

Getting caught in the rain.

There are lessons in life almost everywhere if you look for them.


The other day Melissa and I were in Spanish class. It was about five minutes before class was over when the teacher said “let’s leave now! Quickly! The rain is coming!” So we started home so we would not get soaked.

Two or three times that morning I thought, “we should take the umbrella to class, it looks like rain. Well I argued with myself and decided not to because it was going to be hot and the sun would be out when we walk home.

Do you ever wander, "was that God trying to help me out?" Those times when you hear that still soft voice?

The lesson:
Listen to that still soft voice. I may be God speaking to you. Do you know his voice? Are you too busy handling things on your own that you’re not listening when God is talking?

He leads them and they follow because they know his voice. John 10:4

Back at the farm.

Here at the farm, we are looking out on the beautiful Honduran country side. Wow, this is a great place to be. God’s creation is wonderful.

Back in Honduras again!

After two months of waiting for the political unrest in Honduras to subside without event, we returned to Honduras on Sunday. On Monday the deposed president returned under the cover of darkness in an early morning dash to the Brazilian embassy.

The deposed president speaking from the roof of the embassy sparked of a demonstration. Fears of violence the current president called for a curfew as we made our way to San Pedro to pick up a team that was unable to come do to the closing of the air ports until further notice.

Aww, it is nice to be back in Honduras.....

Traveling: business or pleasure?

I like to say that I love to drive, even better when there is a destination to the journey.

I also love to meet people. Visit with old friends and making new ones, I love to be with people.

In the attempt to gain prayer support and engage those who are interested in missions I travel a lot when I am in the States. For the most part I do love it. But, I am a workaholic sometimes scheduling meetings too close together. This only makes what is usually a pleasure, in to work. This is the bad news.

The good news is all of the people I get to meet and the resources I have discovered. Such as a church in Temecula California that has put us on their prayer list. As you know prayer is God’s weapon on the spiritual battle field. I also got to meet the friendly people at “Faith Comes by Hearing”. What a great organization. They go into the world translating the bible into other languages. Then they put this bible on mp3 players using national speakers recorded in the field. They put this mp3 into a box with solar, A/C, and hand crank charging capability. This player is designed for group listening by illiterate nationals.

I have met many fiends during my travels the last few months. I have been able to introduce some of them to other friends that need to collaborate and share resources. I have also met several people who serve in and around Honduras.

And now I am off the road for a while.

Mom Day

I love mom. It was great to be with her on Mother’s day. Going to church and having a great dinner. It made her day.

Arriving back to the US, we needed a

Arriving back to the US, we needed a place to stay and a car to drive. We had given away our cars and sold our house. A local car dealer offered us the uses one on his lot. So we had a car. But we flew in on a Tuesday not knowing where we would be staying. Melissa needed a place for while she renewed her nursing license. I will be using the car to drive around and talk to pastors and friends. We stayed in a hotel for a few nights and then we got the call. A couple from Springdale offered a house for us to use while we are in the US. Praise God for his provision. All the time, Every time he is in control.

Today I taught keyboarding and mousing around. The kids love the class and look forward to each session. They are starting to catch on to the concept of not moving your hands... but only moving the fingers.... believe it or not this is a mile stone.

The accident that closed the Highway!

We were on our way back from the city yesterday. about half way back we ran into traffic. we were at a stand still for 2 hours before understanding the extent of the problem. the traffic was backed up 5 to 10 miles on the main highway. We just now got home at 5:00 pm today. here is a link to the paper talking about the accident. http://www.latribuna.hn/news/45/ARTICLE/58952/2009-03-14.html