Next Step: Family goes to Honduras!

Our next step in our journey into missions abroad, Lord willing, will be to travel to Honduras as a family and experience the ministry of Teen Missions International. After Christmas Teen Missions Honduras will begin their Boot Camp which is a month long training for teens seeking to go into missions and/or ministry. It is physically and mentally challenging with obstacle courses through the jungle, living in tents for the entire time with all the bugs, snakes and other creatures (did I say in the jungle?), and spiritually challenging as these teens seek God's will for their lives. We want our whole family to experience this training period and also want to serve the directors there, Chico and Kathy Chicas, by helping them administer and by taking video of the whole process in order to promote the camp to supporters and churches. This will be a great time of fellowship as well as we get to know the Chicas better and let our families "mesh".

We are praying that we will be able to buy tickets sometime in the next few weeks as the longer we wait the more it will cost us (most expensive time of year to buy tickets). But our God is bigger than circumstances and we believe that if this is God's will (which we believe it is) then He will provide for us as we currently do not have the funds to purchase the tickets.

The other thing is that it seems the closer we get to knowing God's will for us, the more we become a target of Satan himself. Now to a mature Christian this would seem obvious, but sometimes he shoots his fiery arrows at places in our armor that we may not have known was not protected. And of course when that happens we get injured. So we are praying through trials and periods of doubt and fear that were direct wounds inflicted by the deceiver himself. But our God is greater and has already defeated him on the cross of Calvary! So we praise Him who is greater within us and press on towards the goal.

Please continue to pray with us that the Lord will provide the resources for the plane tickets and that He protect us reminding us daily to put on the WHOLE armor of God.