Report from Honduras

I have been in LaCeiba, Honduras one week now and can report what was accomplished last week. I wrote early in my visit that I was working on the compound in which I am staying. Yeah, mission work is not all preaching and teaching. Sometimes you have to get up to your elbows in labor! It’s always a joy to be able to bless Allen and Vicky Skelton with chores they need to have done. So, I not only tackled the laundry room and got it organized, I also got the kitchen ready for a new season. It too, had lost it’s semblance of order. So I pulled everything off the shelves, cleaned the shelves, cleaned the contents of the shelves and re-assigned the location of a lot of the items. It is now clean, orderly and ready for the next visitors.

About the middle of the week, I took a break from cleaning and joined the ministry team to visit the Home for the Aged in town. I love to visit them because they are so precious. They are all Hondurans and have no family to visit them, so Vicky visits every week to sing, give an encouraging word and give them a special treat to eat. There was a new (to us) lady missionary, Brenda, who gave them a little message that day.

We also held the weekly Bible Club for the neighborhood children. It was the first since they returned back to school after a two month break. There were over 50 children that attended. They love to come and learn songs, Bible verses and stories and have a craft that end with a cookie and juice. They have learned a lot about the Bible, thanks to the efforts of Vicky and her ministry team.

At the end of my first week, there were three meetings planned where I was able to teach. The first, on Friday morning, was for the neighbor ladies. They came from all kinds of spiritual backgrounds and some had none at all. Three of us lady missionaries spoke in the space of two hours with a break in , but somehow they folded together in a wonderful way. There were two salvations among the 23 in attendance.

The second was a meeting held on Friday night was for the men leaders of a local church. They were here for 3 hours while Allen Skelton and I spoke. I spoke on the Keys of the Kingdom and they really listened and responded well. They also did something else very well – eat! We had fruit and cupcakes and they ate every last bit we set out.

The last meeting was for the women of that same church who came on Sunday morning and stayed until 2 p.m. Louise Skelton and I spoke; she on Fear vs Faith and I spoke on . . . you guessed it, the Keys of the Kingdom. I actually had two sessions with these women and was able to get into more of the message. We had a wonderful time with these precious saints of God.


Saturday, Bob was finally able to join me. He is here to do some carpentry work for the compound and to just take a break from the regular routine in Georgia.

I appreciate the prayers of all of you. It is such a pleasure to serve the Lord in such a beautiful place and know that what we are doing will increase the Kingdom…if not now, definitely in the future.

In His Service
Debbie