Team 121 Oakdale Baptist, Evangelism

Back in February God led a dental team to La Gero Blanco. But the church Gethsemane Baptist had just lost their pastor and a lay person, Pedro, had stepped forward to keep the church going and to have some sort of order to the church. About a month ago we knew we had an evangelism team coming down from Oakdale Baptist Church out of Rocky Mount, NC. This team was a new team and only one person on the team had been to Honduras before, Buie, the team leader. It has and always will be exciting to see new faces come and serve the Lord with us in Honduras. We did not have a solicitation for an evangelism team. The Lord placed on my heart Pastor Pedro. This church could use a revival so to speak, a renewing since the loss of their pastor. We made a phone call to Pastor Pedro and asked him would he like an evangelism team to come and go door to door visitation and do VBS. He was more than grateful and of course said yes. Well two days before Oakdale Baptist was suppose to arrive we met with Pastor Pedro to go over last minute details for the following week. With tears in his eyes he thanked God for this team who as we were preparing in Honduras was preparing in North Carolina to come and share the gospel of Jesus Christ with people they had never met before. Pastor Pedro had worked so hard with every detail of what his church was going to do to help that week run smoothly. We also wanted to try a few new ideas to help the evangelism groups who went out to go smoothly. So Oakdale Baptist arrived on August 8 with excitement and lack of sleep in their eyes. The lack of sleep did not slow them down once we arrived in Choluteca. We had our chicken tacos and they adventured through the orientation and next thing I knew Buie had out his guitar and he and Egla, one of the three translators were singing praise music while the rest of the team members were getting ready for the next day. One item we added to the first morning of evangelism is we have juice and rosquettas as an ice breaker for the individual groups before going out door to door. Pastor Pedro also added something to the chain of events, introducing each person in his church who would be assisting in the week of events. It takes many people to make an evangelism team successful. Pastor Pedro may have been a new pastor but he had God at the center of his details. So each group broke up on the first day after their introductions and had a devotional, shared prayer requests, discussed their morning ahead and prayed for they hit the pavement and dirt paths of La Gero Blanco. Thank you God for bringing in new ideas from Pastor Pedro and from our end as well.