Welcome all family, friends and others who are reading our first blog of Monte de Horeb Ministry Inc. We are so excited what God has in store for the ministry in 2021. This ministry campus became a dream for Mike and I several years ago. This dream is now a gift from God to share with all our North American teams and our Honduran Churches. This quarter we are working on updating and changing forms for the benefit of Monte de Horeb Ministry. Other than this absolutely nothing has changed. The ministry campus is a lush vibrant green land with few rocks or boulder in view. Praise God for an amazing staff who has worked diligently on this project since the first of March. Our last team this year was in February and there has not been a team since and there is not another team until February 2021. But we are all working hard keeping this beautiful gift from God clean. There are still seven staff working here as of today, Yobani, Naun, Ingrid, Alexa, Ingrid, Rudy, Manuel and Pastor Carlos. Mike and I are so very blessed to have an amazing and trustworthy staff we can rely on to continue the work here even when Mike and I are in the states visiting our children and grandchildren. The pandemic has not slowed down the ministry God has called us to do. Some teams who could not come this year still sent their monies to build a home down so families could still receive their homes. We built four homes between April and July of this year. We were careful where we went according to the covid cases in different districts. We wanted to protect our staff first and foremost. So in saying all of this we want to say thank you to everyone out there who has helped Monte de Horeb keep seven people employed and built four homes even amidst of the pandemic. Most of you are aware if there is not any teams there is not any monies coming through. So we give God all the praise and honor for the many blessings which have flowed through this ministry. God is so good.
On Monte de Horeb there is a complete sports center eagerly awaiting some Honduran churches to come out for a soccer game along side of their church retreat. We want our local barber, Santos, who is a confessing Christian to be able to come back out here to play soccer with the local children and teenagers. This is a huge ministry for him to keep these young people off the streets of Pavana. We pray for our pastor conference to happen in 2021 for our North American Pastors and Honduran Pastors. We appreciate our police ministry so much. They are available at any time to lend a helping hand. This is one ministry we are so grateful for. We did not realize four years ago going up to the Police substation on Thursday evenings for Bible study this would turn into an amazing gift from God. We are forever grateful for this ministry. Fellow readers this is only the Honduran ministries which take place on Monte de Horeb.
There is all whole other ministry as well which has been happening for many years. This is all the North American Churches who come down each year with any where from 7 to 15 or more team members. They come to bless the Hondurans but in turn get so much more blessed by the love, joy, contentment and compassion found in these beautiful people. The North American teams come to build homes while evangelizing and doing VBS, medical and dental while evangelizing and an evangelism team who goes door to door and does VBS in the afternoon.
Our staff and Mike and I are continuing to clean up the ministry campus and getting it ready for our first team in February of 2021. If God's will we will be started out 2021 with 14 teams coming through to serve alongside of us at Monte de Horeb Ministries. When we started down this new journey about a year ago, I prayed to God to bless us with at least 10 teams. Well God exceeded my expectations with 14 and I pray more teams will join this new journey along side of us as we go out to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with some precious people God has gifted Mike and I with as we are obedient to His calling for our lives. We are finishing up 11 years in Honduras and have been coming over twenty years as we started out bringing teams in 2000 and helped build a church in Tegus. This has been an amazing and spiritually blessed journey. One of my favorite Bible verses is 2Corithians 12:9 "My grace is sufficient for you, my power is made perfect in weakness." Mike and I are simply lay people who said yes 11 years ago to calling to come here and save these people in Honduras. Instead these amazing and godly people who truly rely on God's strength through their profound faith to see them through each and every day saved my life. I will never be the same again and for that I give God all the praise, honor and glory. If you would love to experience true peace, joy and contentment in your life at least for eight days please come down and join us on the most life changing experience of your lifetime. These words cannot describe the beauty of God's sunsets, the magnitude of God's lightening shows during rainy seasons, the delicious Honduran meals each evening, the cold sodas on the gift shop porch the breathe taking God moments after and during evening devotionals on those relaxing rocking chairs on the porches of the North American dorm and multi-purpose building or just being still and being God's presence while you look out over the rolling mountains which surround this 36 acre ministry campus. Thank YOU GOD for providing all of this through so many very generous people who love you first and love the Honduran people who they have meant over the years. We look forward to what God will do in 2021, hope to see you all here with us. God bless everyone.
