A Changing Church

When we arrived in Honduras to start a church, God guided us to the house where we are now. The area that we now use as our church was a run down school yard. It was very dirty and an old tin roof stretched out over the yard.

In the following months our landlord began constructing a small apartment above our "yard". They installed a beautiful roof, lights, and painted the whole inside without charging us a dime!

Here is our church when the construction was finished. What a blessing from the Lord.

About two or so weeks ago I presented a project to our people. I was looking for ways to involve the people. Something that saint and sinner could participate in, so I presented the idea of raising funds to decorate our church. Everybody agreed and so this past Saturday we held a garage sale to raise funds. I wanted to teach the church not to be dependent upon the missionaries to provide everything, I want them to work for the needs of their church without expecting us to pay out the money.

One of the ladies who has started attending our church is an interior decorator. She is very well known. She has decorated the congress, several presidencial houses as well as many houses for the rich and famous. She was in the service when I presented this project to the church, I think it was her very first service. I had no idea she was an interior decorator. When she heard about our project she said she would be willing to donate and make the curtains and decorations for the church, but she wanted it to be a secret to the other people who attend our services. This past Tuesday she and her brothers (who also attend the church) came to install the curtains, carpet, and decorations. They did an excellent job. With some of the money we made at the garage sale we were able to buy bricks to make a platform and better lighting. Everybody was so shocked when they saw the new decorations last night in our service. Praise God for this answer to prayer!!! God is working!!!!!!