Trip to Guatemala and Honduras

 Ben was able to take about a 12 day trip to Guatemala and Honduras. The purpose was to visit and encourage the work continuing both at Love Guatemala and New Life Network. It was an amazing visit to see how great the leaders are doing in both ministries.

These two are doing an amazing job leading Love Guatemala and New Life Network. We are so proud of them and their leadership!

This is the leadership team at our new church we are planting in Santa Lucia and below is one of there weekly gatherings they are doing. The church officially launches in June.

We took this group on a road trip to explore some ministry opportunities in two different places. The drive was beautiful but long. Almost 13 hours to get there because of traffic, accidents etc.

Above is a discipleship group that our friend and ministry partner Jose has started using the material from New Life Network. They are doing great and planning on multiplying this group into surrounding communities.

It is a beautiful but primitive place on the east cost of Guatemala on a bay connected with the Atlantic. Pray for our ministry opportunities there with the multuplication of the discipleship group, starting the Bible Insititute there and church planting opportunities.

The second place we went was Travesia, Honduras. It is a beach town with a unique Garifuna culture.  

The ministry we visited and are partnering with is called Buena Vista Sports Academy. It was started by our friend Brock Johnson and their focus is using Futbol (soccer) to reach and discple young men. We visited here to look into the possibility of planting a church there, with a young man who feels called there from Guatemala, named Ivan. Please pray for this opportunity, Ivan and BVSA.

This is the team leading BVSA in Travesia together with our team. They are doing an amazing job of reaching young men for Christ.

This is the Catholic church there in the community.

Love Guatemala is doing great with over 300 students this year and most of them are there on Saturday which makes for a very full building.

It was great to see the feeding center back in full swing. 

The cooking school is back up and running too which is super exciting!

I got to spend some time with this amazing couple too. This is Yeison and Lilliana from Columbia. Yeison served with us for two years helping plant the first church in Guatemala. He is now going to be helping lead the Network in Columbia. They came and served in Guatemala for a few months and I caught them on the last part of their time there.

It was a great trip, but hard to be away from family for 12 days. Thanks for praying and supporting the work we are involved in!

Prayer, Missions, Miracles and a trip to Honduras

We had a team that went to Honduras this past week to serve with our friends at BVSA.  They were to serve there doing a bunch of things but mainly sharing the gospel. PTL that 10 people gave their lives to Jesus during their time there!! 

But their trip was not an easy one. Several got sick, two flat tires on the way down and while there Eswin had an accident and broke his femur. He spent 2 days in the hospital and praise the Lord he is on the road to recovery. But the Lord used this injury to see his name made known as well. While in the hospital one of the coaches of the Rhinos where they were serving (The ministry uses soccer to reach the community) visited him and brought his girlfriend who had resisted the gospel previously. But this day Eswin who just hours earlier was brought by ambulance to the hospital in much pain shared his story and this lady below gave her life to Christ! The miracle of new life!

 

Please pray for this young believer and the other 9 who gave their lives to Jesus.

This is Eswin who had a rought week, but the Lord is using this injury for his glory. He had surgery to put a rod in his leg because the break was so bad.

Love this! Some of Eswin's new honduran friends praying for him.

Pray for more in Honduras, Guatemala and all over the world to know and follow Jesus. 

Please pray for Eswin in his recovery. He does not have insurance and incurred more than $3,000 in hospital bills and also will need support for a few months in medical costs and also to support his family. Please consider supporting him in this time. 

You can give here and mark "support for Eswin": https://www.rednuevavida.org/global/guatemala