Honduras Trip Q and A

What: A mostly-Mexican missions trip to Honduras. We will be broken into three teams at three different church sites. Those sites will be ministering in everything from encouraging the church to grow in discipleship, presenting a missions conference, evangelism and children's Bible clubs.

Who:

This short-term trip will give people from 7 different countries and 14 different churches the opportunity to band together get a taste of what missions is like and hopefully encourage them to pursue it further. Our age range is from 18 to 49 and we are quite the motley crew. Our native languages are Spanish, English and Portuguese. However, it is awesome to see how Christ unites us and we are eagerly awaiting what He will do through us!

When: We will be there over Holy Week. We fly out the 15th, participate in our projects from the 16th to the 25 and then fly back on the 26th.

Where: 3 church and ministry locations in La Ceiba, Honduras.

Why:

--The purpose of the trip is to encourage Mexicans to reach out in missions. The prevailing mindset for years has been that the United States sends missionaries and Mexico is always on the receiving end. A major goal of this trip is to challenge Mexican youth to realize the potential that they have to serve and the call that they have from God to go and make disciples of all nations.

--We also pray that this trip would be an encouragement to the Honduran churches that we are going to support.

--Obviously we also pray that through this trip we would have an opportunity to share the reason for the hope that we have within us.

How:

-->In short, by the power of the Holy Spirit.

How (expanded):

--Our main preparation for these ministries has been practicing skits (both for the church and as an outreach), songs, testimonies and devotionals. We realize that unforeseen changes in plans are par for the course in missions work, but our aim is to be as prepared as possible for any situation.

--This past Saturday in our meeting one of our leaders gave us a brief evangelism training in which she addressed the importance of listening to the other person, asking lots of open questions,

--We are also enthusiastic to meet Honduran brothers and sisters in Christ and be able to share our lives and testimonies with them. (1 Thess. 2:8) We pray that the church there will be blessed and strengthened by our time there, albeit brief.

Please be praying that God would give us unity as we are a group diverse in nationalities, denominations and interests. This could be a point of extreme effectiveness as we use all of our different gifts... or it could be a nightmare with a lot of misunderstandings. Please pray that the first would be the case that we would be able to glorify God and that others would know that we are Christians by our love. (John 13:35)