I SAW GOD DO IT!
NEW Two New Missions Completed in Honduras
NEW Gospel Outreach in Regions Beyond
NEW Medical Dental Evangelism and Church Growth
NEW Graduation of Students
New Mission Churches
NEW Biblical Preaching & Teaching Course - Follow-up on Zapotillo
NEW Baptist Mission Started in Zapotillo, Honduras
NEW Children's Bible Classes in Danli, Honduras
NEW Gabe Churchwell Report on Danli, Honduras
NEW Baptism of new believers in Danli, Honduras
New Bible Institute Courses by Extension
Juan Alberto Herrera's Testimony
First Bible Institute Course taught at Danli January 2005
Seminary Extension Courses in Managua, Nicaragua
TEAMS IN ACTION
Christian
Missionaries and Missionary Christians
by Tom Ascol
"We never test the resources of God until we attempt the impossible" - F. B. Meyer
"We must do something!
Lengthen the cords! Strengthen the stakes!
Expect great things from God! Attempt great things for God!
The King! The King!!
The continents! The continents! Here
am I send me, send me!"
-- William Carey,
father of the modern missionary movement.
"Anything God has ever done He can do now. Anything He has ever done anywhere, He can do here! Anything God has ever done for anyone He can do for us" - A. W. Tozer
Non-profit faith based Short-term Volunteer Mission Projects designed with a clear focus on church planting in rural areas of the world.
I Saw God Do It!
with
Wil & Ann Pounds
New Baptist Mission
Zapotillo, Honduras
Children at the new Baptist Mission in Zapotillo,
Honduras.
“You shall receive
power . . . and you shall be My witnesses . . .
even to the remotest part of
the earth” - Acts 1:8
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od answers prayer! Ann and I have been praying three years for a pastor to start a new Baptist work in Zapotillo, Honduras.
It all began in 2003 when the Lord led Wil to take a medical-dental-evangelism team to a town thirty minutes east of Danli. Among those who believed on Christ as their Savior that week were two schoolteachers. They have been praying that God would provide them a Baptist church in their town. “We want a Baptist church that teaches us the same thing you preached when you were here two years ago.”
God answered their prayers by sending a Honduran Baptist pastor with over twenty years experience starting churches.
October 27, 2005, we formally organized a Bible study group into a Baptist mission, and petitioned Alpha and Omega Baptist Church, Danli to be the mother church.
Saul Sabillon with his wife Edith Zulema is the pastor of the Baptist Mission in Zapotillo.
Eighteen people attended the first home Bible study. There are fifteen adult members of the mission, and over thirty children attend the children’s Bible classes.
Zulema is teaching a group of children in the Baptist mission at Zapotillo.
Wil taught a Pastor’s Leadership Training course on personal evangelism and discipleship to pastors and church leaders at the Alpha and Omega Baptist Church in Danli, October 2005. With the exception of pastors, the majority of the students had never shared Christ as a personal witness.
The course began with a presentation of the Biblical basis of salvation. No one has ever been saved by false teachings. Each student was given a Gideon pocket New Testament in Spanish. Wil taught the students how to mark their Testaments so they could easily go from verse to verse along the Roman Road (John 3:16; Romans 3:23; 6:23; 5:6, 8; 10:9-10; 8:1; 5:1-2).
Mud block house where Baptist meets.
After a discussion of the meaning of these verses Wil and a student role-played how to use their New Testaments and share the plan of salvation as a personal witness. Then the students divided up in groups of three and “witnessed” to each other. These practice sessions gave the class confidence with peers before going out into the community.
When the class returned after the first visits four people had placed their trust in Christ as their Savior. They studied additional Scriptures, false “gospels,” sects, etc. before going out again. During the week the class went out witnessing seven times and 55 people placed their faith in Christ. Wil is preparing a similar one-day witnessing workshop for pastors and churches.
what you can do
Partnership missions gives you an opportunity to become personally involved in what God is doing in world missions.
Pray daily for the work in Honduras.
q Pastor and Church Leadership Training Ministry in Honduras. To reduce costs we will not build buildings, but operate out of existing churches or church assembly grounds.
q We believe the Lord is leading us to respond to an invitation from pastors and church leaders to teach our courses in Ocotal, Nicaragua.
q Juan Alberto Herrera Ministry Alberto has faithfully served 18 years as a contract worker with mission teams. We agree with him that it is God’s will for him to serve as a full-time evangelist and pastor. Juan pastors a Honduran Baptist Convention church in Danli. He is our Director for Pastor and Church Leadership Training in Honduras.
Juan
Alberto Herrera is an evangelist and pastor of Alpha and Omega Baptist Church.