Honduras 2009 Y/H, It Was A Challenge

On Monday Oct, 19 we left for Honduras with a team of 6, to do youth leadership seminars, first a few tidbits.

• it was cold, in the 60`s, not normal
• also it was dry, we did get a little rain one night, but not much, and this is there rainy season.

OK, we went to a school on Tuesday, and they had prepared a show for us with students from there schools, we were not expecting to be honored before even doing anything, but God works in mysterious ways. and after the show we talked in their classrooms, that is when I saw Gods reason for blessing us with the show. all of us shared, about ourselves and Jesus and it was good. I was amazed to see bible verses on the walls of these classrooms, and even more amazed to have the 2Nd grade class sing to us and then recite bible verses. and the blessing did not stop,they asked us to return, witch we did on Thursday and spoke again. then Tuesday evening I spoke to 14 people on commitment and character building for a youth leader,boy! I found that as I relied on God more, he brought his message out and I got to be the vessel he used, that is thrilling. if you haven`t done something like this, TRY IT, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!!!!

we had great team dynamics, we all in our preparation's were able to overlap each other and leave a lead in to each others assignments. and we had prepared separately, the only way this could happen is that the Lord was in charge, and He was there. 1 example was Sunday morning before service's, I talk to different group from Tue about again character building, and some of its attributes, and told them they would here much more in the message, our team leader Ryan delivered that message and really hit on all the points we briefly gave them. I talked to Ryan about this just now in fact, and we both believe that Gods desire to grow them as leaders was indeed met. they were hungry and each member of this team was used by God to feed them.

By the way I should tell you there was a lot of fun with participants of these conferences, I will list a couple of them.

• volley ball, (after playing, we gathered everyone for a short message from Kane, a member of our team, this led to 3 kids excepting Christ)
• team building games, (body parts, cups on a string,ring around the chair, skits, spider web)

there is so much more, and I would love to share it, just contact me and I will be happy to do so