31 Days Of Prayer In October

We are asking all of our faithful supporters to pray for us through the month of October. There are many changes and many great things happening here in Honduras. We want to bathe everything that is done here in prayer.

Please print out this prayer calendar and use it as a guide to pray for us in October.

We are seeking an abnormally high amount of prayer in October. We want you to share this calendar with others -- hand it out at Bible studies, put it in your church’s bulletin, send it out through prayer chains. Put it on your fridge, in you Bible, on your dashboard or at your desk. Pray privately, pray publicly, pray with your kids or at the dinner table. Pray for 20 seconds each day or 20 minutes. But, please pray.

It is our desire to remove barriers and to protect our family and our ministry. You play a major part in this ministry. Thank you for your participation in this vital aspect of Team Honduras.

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” - Matthew 7:7-11

Day Of The Bible

The government of Honduras declared September 27, 2009 as "Day Of The Bible". On this day our mission team handed out 600 free Spanish language Bibles in the poor community of Armenia Bonito.

Take a look at this 2 minute and 40 second video to see all the happy faces and their new Bibles:

Honduras update

Talks between Micheletti and Zelaya have been stalled since June. The primary reason is they both have very different ideas on how to resolve the political situation in Honduras. Zelaya wants back in power, and Micheletti and the Supreme Court want anyone BUT Zelaya back in power. However, looks as though talks may be started this weekend. The local paper here in Honduras is reporting that yesterday Micheletti accepted talks composed of the President of Costa Rica, Óscar Arias, and the Vice-President of Panama, Juan Carlos Varela, at the suggestion of the former American Governor Jimmy Carter, to discuss the Honduran political crisis. However, during last discussions with Arias, Arias's primary solution was to put Zelaya back into power. So - if the discussions continue in the same direction, we will continue to be in a stalemate. Daytime curfew has been lifted, but currently we still have a nighttime curfew from 7pm until 5am.

GOOD commentary by Newt Gingrich:



On a happier note - we were able to start back up with our ministry work. We had our mobile medical clinic yesterday, saw 25 patients, and met back up with many of our friends out in Armenia Bonito! Woohoo!

Curfew update

So - the government has lifted the curfew - not sure why I guess...don't get me wrong - I'm THRILLED!!! Nothing has changed! People are still looting (sigh...), Zelaya supporters are still being hostile, but we are allowed out of our houses today! We are off to our mobile medical clinic in the village, but we are going to have an abbreviated one today as we need to re-stock on food for ourselves, and if they reinstate the curfew it will be when it gets dark which is 6pm. Typically our clinic ends around 5:00 or so and it takes 30 minutes to get home. So - pray that our time is used wisely, and that we can see the people who are truly sick, and not just those seeking attention - but who could blame them? It's been a really weird time here, and a bit or normalcy is very inviting! As far as we know, there have been no talks between ex-president Zelaya and current president Micheletti. Both are holding strong on their primary concerns. Zelaya wants back in power, and Micheletti (along with the Supreme Court) say no. So I'm not sure where that is going to leave us.

Curfew continues part 5

Latest update as of 8pm tonight - our curfew has been lifted tomorrow from 6am until 6pm. So, as of right now we are going to go out to the village to check on everyone and have an abbreviated clinic to make sure we get back into town in time to shop for some much needed food, and get home before curfew is up. We assume Madison will be attending school as well. She has only had school on Monday of this week. No new updates about what is going on with Zelaya. Still in the Brazilian embassy - still holding firm to his demands. Ah well...and so it continues :-)

Curfew continues part 4

Well, we had a few hours of lifted curfew today for people to go out and get food, etc. We didn't dare venture out. The stores were over-run, and the lines for gas was so long. So, we stayed holed up in our house, and are back under curfew. According to the local news, the curfew has been reinstated as of 5pm tonight, and the news states:

"El Gobierno de Honduras en cadena nacional de radio y televisión, anunció que el toque de queda en todo el país inicia desde las cinco de la tarde del miércoles sin precisar la hora en que finalizará." For you non-Spanish speakers, this is basically what it says: "The Government of Honduras announced on national radio and television that the curfew nationwide that was started at five in the afternoon of Wednesday, there is no specific time it will end."

So we sit in our house, with plenty of food and water (although it may get interesting if we have to start eating waffles and pancakes from now on...), waiting to hear what tomorrow brings. We have our planned mobile clinic in the village - I went ahead and prepped for it - preparing as if we will go, but will have to wait to see what the news announces. If we can - we are going to try and get to the store tomorrow to re-stock and prepare for whatever may come. Please continue to pray for us, the people in the village, the people of Honduras, and the government as we continue under unsure times.

Couldn’t Stand It Any Longer

So we have been locked up in our house for almost 48 hours. The government imposed curfew has given us too much time on our hands with nothing to do.

Mike has been complaining about his beard for a week. When you have too much time on your hands and you need some entertainment drastic events occur. For your viewing pleasure:

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After