House of God Baptist Church - Los Delicia

 

First Baptist Church of Southern Pines College Group came for their seventh trip to Honduras to serve the Lord.  They took on quiet a different challenge this year  than in years past.  We asked Pastor Bryan early on if they would be interested in helping build a church.  He talked to the group and they said,"Yes!!!"  Pastor Bryan and team came ready for a new challenge to help three other teams build a church.

Five years ago we built a home in Los Delicia for a family.  During the week the team wanted to do VBS for the children.  The church was a distance away and so the team asked the owner of the cow pasture could they do VBS in his cow pasture.  The man's name is Carlos and five years ago he was a devout Catholic.  Actually this area of Los Delicia was a prominent Catholic community.  So Carlos graciously said yes to VBS literally in his cow pasture with cows all around the VBS group.  Two years later the pastor of the church asked for a evangelism team to go out into Los Delicia.  So we honored his request and provided an evangelism team.  Last year we built the pastor's brother a home in Los Delicia.  One afternoon we went to check on the team in Los Delicia.  The home owner shared about a church plant in his community.  He asked if we would like to go see it.  We said we would love to.  We got in the truck and headed down the dirt path to the main road.  We turned left and a mile later turned left into the location of the cow pasture.  Mike and I looked at each other and said,"This is the cow pasture we had VBS in five years ago.  Carlos, the Catholic, came running out of his house to greet us and share how he had accepted Christ and God lead him to donate the cow pasture for the church.  The church has been meeting under the stars for a little over a year now.  Four teams have stepped forward to build the church Los Delicia calls House of God Baptist Church.  Follow us as we start this four team journey of this church.  Bear in mind, we will go one month before starting the construction again but from that point it will be every team until it is completed. God is good all the time and all the time God is good.

 

"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it."

Matthew 16:18