Are you making a mark or a shadow?

In this world we all try to leave our mark. We put together a life that we think will stand the test of time. We build houses that are made of brick or stone instead of wood because it lasts longer. We plant shrubs and lawns and trees thinking everything will last and look pretty. But how long does it all last. Sure bricks last longer than wood and trees last longer than lawns but even so how long will it lasts. Most of us go to work earn some money to go home and spend it. a car or two a house maybe a boat. I was along with everyone. Working 11 months so I can take 1 to vacation enjoy my house and thought I was doing all I was supposed to do. I went to church so I would not go to hell. Took the children in my life with me so they wouldn’t go to hell too. That was my “outreach”. Good! Right?

Yes, it is good. But is it enough? God sent his son in hops that no one would be lost. But how can they be found unless someone goes and tells them. When I finally, really, understood that scripture; I found my purpose in life. When you follow Christ you call others to Him. Not just save yourself, but reach those around you for Him. Everything else is temporary. Only discipling the lost lasts forever. Only seeing a lost soul find Christ is eternal. Everything else is like our shadow. It makes a difference as long as we are here making our mark. But when we leave so does our impact; so does our mark.

Don’t leave a shadow make an eternal difference, disciple the lost.

Having a good time!

I wake up and feel good and clean. Get dressed and go to work. When I get off work, I go traveling, camping, playing, and having a good time. Little by little I start to get sweaty. Little by little I get dirty. When I am having fun I don’t realize how dirty I am. How my appearance has changes. Sleeping outdoors and eating junk food having a great time. Then I get home and I start to relax and feel dirty, sticky, and gross. I take a shower and start to feel great. Eat some good food and drink some water. Now I am really feeling better. Hum, is that how it is when you start to miss a service? State to live a little in to world? Listening, watching and believing what the world says? You don’t even realize how your appearance has changes. How your attitude and speech has changed.

It is time for you to have a shower and eat some of God’s good food? Is it time for you to turn back to Him? He is waiting right by your side. He has been there all along.

Read the Word, eat some of God’s good food, and renew your mind.

Birth Pains?

Mark 13:8-10:
8 Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in many parts of the world, as well as famines. But this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

As we have seen many earthquakes near and far last year and starting this year off with a large one in our back yard. Only minutes after the earthquake in Haiti we had one here in Honduras. In fact, we have had more than 35 smaller earthquakes in/or near Honduras in 2009, over 14,000 in the world. Thanks God the largest at 7.3 was off shore and 6 miles below the service. It was felt in all of Honduras and Belize as well as some parts of Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua.

Our hearts go out to Haiti and the people there; this is truly the first of the birth pains.

What more will come?

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