TEAMS IN ACTION
NEW Gospel Outreach in Regions Beyond
NEW Medical Dental Evangelism and Church Growth
NEW Graduation of Students
New Mission Churches
NEW Baptist Mission Started in Zapotillo, Honduras
New Bible Institute Courses by Extension
New Juan Alberto Herrera's Testimony
New First Bible Institute Course taught at Danli January 2005
Seminary Extension Courses in Managua, Nicaragua
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!
Expect great things from God! Attempt great things for God!"
-- 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
El Playon de Paz, Honduras, September 21-25, 2003.
Jesus said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful, but the workers
are few” (Matthew 9:37).
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e want to discover where God is at work, and see if He
would have us join Him in what He is doing in this community with this team at
this time.
On a recent medical-dental-evangelism survey trip, Pablo and I decided to return to the city of La Paz where we looked up a member of the Baptist church who was employed at the Texaco station. He told us where we could find his pastor, but in our conversation with the pastor, we discovered the church was going through a difficult time and they had no missions or preaching points, and this was not a good time for them to start a new work. However, he did know another Baptist pastor in town, Carlos Martinez, whose church had missions.
Pablo and I went to Carlos’s house near La Paz, and he began to share with us how his church had been praying for almost a year for a mission team from the North Carolina Convention Partnership to come and work, but they never came to work with the church. We went with the pastor about an hour’s drive up the mountainous road to 5,500 feet above sea level looking down on La Paz and the valley below.
We met with the rural nurse at the community clinic, school teachers, community leaders, etc. Carlos and his church were making the trip up the mountain each week to hold preaching services and witness. As we left El Playon de Paz that afternoon, we had a deep sense that this was a place where God was at work and that He wanted one of our teams to minister here.
We must never make an apology
for being in dead earnest about world missions . . . We must not retreat until
Jesus Christ tells us he made a mistake in coming into the world to redeem men.
I SAW GOD DO IT!
We conduct around twenty-five worship services during each
team visit. Every patient must attend a worship service before he can see a
doctor or dentist. On this trip to El Playon de Paz, Honduras, September 21-25,
2003, there were 1,052 professions of faith, 233 adult decisions and 819
children.
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Medical Patients |
2,260 |
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Prescriptions Filled |
8,233 |
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Dental Patients |
356 |
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Teeth Extracted |
672 |
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Children’s Church |
1,014 |
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Eye Glasses |
310 |
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Spanish Bibles &New Testaments |
1,000 |
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Gospel Tracts |
2,300 |
| Adult Professions of Faith in Christ |
233 |
| Children Professions of Faith in Christ |
819 |
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.
Juan Alberto Hererra Ministry Alberto has faithfully served 18 years as a contract worker with our mission teams. He is a faithful pastor in Danli and is helping us start a Bible institute extension program for rural pastors in Honduras.
Go on a medical-dental-evangelism team.
Wil & Ann
Pounds
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