Hello From Honduras

Wow!!! I have only been in Honduras for a little over a week and I am blown away by what God is doing here  I flew into Honduras on June 11th and met up with a team of 22 mostly high school aged young adults on June 12th. Another missionary lady with Book of Hope named Pat was training me up to get me ready for the trip I would be leading on my own next week. We took a 7 ½ hour bus ride from the airport to a bible institute which we called “home” for 4 days.

One day we walked door to door inviting the community to that week’s church service and asking if they knew Jesus personally. We stopped at one house and spoke to a lady that had a small child, he was probably 2 or 3 years old. We asked if she had a personal relationship with Jesus and she said no. We were able to share with her how God sent Jesus to die not just for the world but for her specifically because His love is personal and He loved her very much. We explained that this whole “God-thing” isn’t about getting her into church but about a personal relationship with Jesus. Though she did not give her life to Jesus right then and there she was open to having someone from the church return and share more with her at a later date.

“I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.” 1 Corinthians 3:6-7

We are not out here for numbers or another notch on our belts. We are out here to share the truth and love of Jesus. I want to thank you again for being apart of that….whether through financially giving each month or through praying for me or even if you pray for the mission. Thank you for praying for workers and the individual people who are out there living their daily lives without Jesus. They need you. They need you to give. They need you to pray. They need you to go. Thank you for what ever part you are playing right now and for what ever part the Lord may have in store for you in the future.

Next up…Pat and I are resting up this weekend and on Monday Pat’s next team comes in. I will be hanging out and helping out where ever I can. My next team comes in on June 27th. Please pray for the team to get to Honduras safely and that they would be pumped and excited for what the Lord is going to do. Pray for servant hearts. Please pray that our words would be effective and that through our lives that God would change the lives of others. Thank you  And I will write again as soon as I can! I tried to add pictures but the computer I am using would not allow it....bummer!!! So hopefully next time!

AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!

"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." Proverb 16:9

This is one of the scriptures the Lord brought to my attention back in the middle of February. It made me wonder: if a man plans his course by his heart then how does he not mess it up? How do you know if what your heart wants is what the Lord wants?

Then I was lead to Psalm 37:4 "Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart." So what you are telling me, Lord, is if I delight myself in you (which means that I choose you and surrender all that I am and all that I want to what you want) then you will set in my heart my desires. And then you say that I can plan out how to achieve these desires and you will guide me? That is quite the deal if you ask me.

And this is just what I did. Costa Rica was a stretching time for me and a series of events drove me to dig into Jesus and delight in Him often. During this time my love for Jesus multiplied and soon He began opening my heart more to a dear friend of mine back home. I was home for a few days when Kyle McAllister pleasantly surprised me and asked if I would marry him. With a giant smile on my face I said, "Yes!"

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! We are so excited about what Jesus is doing!!!! A lot of friends and family have offered to help us with wedding plans since I will be out of the country during the majority of our engagement. I will be finished with Book of Hope sometime in August of 2009 and we look forward to getting married in September of 2009.

I will be leaving Ohio June 9th and headed to Honduras on the 10th. I will be there for about 3 weeks helping to lead a few 10 day teams. I will go back to Florida for a week or so on July 2nd and then out to Cuba at the end of July. Book of Hope has been distributing books in Cuba for years but we will be the first American team to go!!! Please be praying for all needed paper work to be filled out and accepted and that we wouldn't lose anything while traveling. Pray for good health and happy spirits because you know how miserable anything can be if you are sick :) Thank you!

I also added a couple of pictures of Kyle and I :)