The team leader Steve came last year and Mike shared with him how our ministry was trying to build a relationship with the local police check point. Steve shared how he and some other of his team members who are police would love to come back and share in some activities and devotional time with these fellow police officers. So as this year past we heard from Steve and he shared he had six men interested in coming and sharing in drills and mostly God's Word with fellow police officers. All the hard work Steve put into this came to life this week in Honduras. We placed the construction team across the road about twenty minutes to so both teams would be close to each other if any needs were required of each other. So on Saturday of their week the team spit up into two different teams, one the construction team and one was the Police Conference. The six North American police, team leader Steve, retired Captain, Officer Robert has worked 15 years as an university police, Lt. Sam who has worked for 18 1/2 years in investigation unit, Pastor Tommy, who counsels the police, families and notifies families of deaths, Officer Jim has been a police officer for 9 1/2 years and Officer Chris has been in law enforcement 11 years and works with the canine unit. There is probably sixty plus years of experience amongst these young men who came to serve their Lord this week with the police of Honduras. They did not come to teach them but to work beside them this week and learn from them as well.
The Honduran Chief of Police has been a police in Honduras for 7 years. He responsibilities are checking for drugs, weapons and illegals coming through Honduras. He works with the national border control as well. There was a couple other police who walked in while introductions were taking place. Officer Nelson also has been with the Honduran police for 7 years. He worked in special unit and shared how the military work beside them as well. He is learning more about the national border control through educational classes. Officer Alex has been a police in Honduras 9 years. He also works in the special unit for 4 years now. He is teaching and helping other officers learn more about the special unit work. They shared how they went to the states and Guatemala to learn more about the special unit work.
They shared a word of prayer and went out to take a tour of the facility. After their tour they decided to meet on the porch of the ware house with the police live and sleep. We brought in chairs from the local church in Pavana so everyone would have a place to sit during the conferences. Team member Jim, took the lead and share a little about himself and how he came into law enforecement and his carreer in the military. One of the Honduran police asked him did he have trouble sleeping since being back home from military duty. Jim thought this was a most interesting question but knew the Honduran police knew a lot about their lives in the states. Jim asked them if they were Christians and no one raised their hands. They knew who God was but did not know Jesus has their Lord and Savior. Another question was asked from the Honduran police, "How can you have faith in God with the line of work you do. Jim and several others shared their personal relationship with Jesus Christ is how we do everything in our lives through the power of the Holy Spirit. So the North Americans were going to learn from them but they were there to teach the Hondurans how to live for Christ while being a police officer. At that time Mike asked could Pastor Pedro come out on Monday and join them and let Pastor Tommy worked beside him so in teaching him how to minister to these guys with concerns in their lives and their jobs. Of course that was a go ahead. Pastor Pedro goes out weekly with members from his church to teach a bible study with about seven of these police officers. There was actually ten bibles given out recently to the ones who requested a bible. God is at work at this police check point and these six gentlemen planted a lot of seeds towards God's Kingdom work. Thank you Steve, team leader and gentlemen who put so much of their time and energy into this new ministry God has created.
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