Happy Birthday to our first SIL!

Leading the others into a new decade, our first Son-in-Law celebrates his birthday today.  We prayed for him for many years before we knew his face or even his name

Happy Birthday Mike!

We are so thankful that God created you and brought you into our lives as the godly husband for Miriam.  We are blessed by your smile, your love, your life.

This is the year that God has planned for you

to bless you and to give you a future.

Long time friends...

Long time friends are those special folks you have known for a long time and with whom when you see them again, you begin right where you left…almost in the middle of the last conversation. 

Well, long time friends, Jim and Patsy came to visit us again this February.  But this year they traveled alongside us up the Rio Dulce to Livingston to gather information on the Guatemalan Garifuna. 

The views on the Rio Dulce are so pretty at sunset.

The water taxis like to go back up river for folks to see the old Spanish Fort Felipe.

Herons, by the thousands, live on the river.  

This young girl wants us to buy her shells, note that large starfish in her boat.

The bevy of boats...

Young boys net fishing...

Sea gulls, by the thousands, live around Livingston.

We watched as these men put down their nets and then circled back to gather their catch. 

Obviously it was quite a heavy load.

These were hoping there would be some left for their dinner as well.

These folks were hoping for some of that dinner too.

Happy Birthday Sweet Momma!

Today my sweet momma celebrates her 92nd birthday!

Mom is a wonderful lady who is a reflection of Jesus whom she has loved and served for nearly 70 years. She was a guiding influence for my sister and me to come to an early understanding of the Love of God and the acceptance of His free gift of salvation through Christ alone. She taught many others as well and rejoices to hear how and where they continue to serve the Lord.

Today we will miss celebrating together but the love we share will always be celebrated. Mom, I love you and thank you for the life you have lived before me.

Happy Birthday baby girl!

Twenty five years have passed since we welcomed Deborah into the world.  She is our only non Georgian born...our little "cajun" child born while David was completing seminary.  Happy Bday sweet girl!

We are thankful for each of our children and the ones whom God brought to them to complete their life's ministry.  Love you all!  Just missing them a little bit today. 

Pray the Lord of the Harvest...

Thank you for your prayers for David as he spoke to the church in Copán Ruinas. He did a great job. However, the pastor must have thought David did not preach long enough because after David finished he got up and re-preached the same sermon, point by point, line by line and then re- preached it again. We were glad that he at least understood it and could repeat it. The people heard it three different times so we trust God will use it to send forth labors to the indigenous of Honduras and to the ends of the world. We were impressed with the number of men in the service. Following a yummy light lunch and fellowship, we came back together to share the Lord’s Supper. For some it was their first time to celebrate the finished work of Christ for their salvation as they were new believers.


Continue to pray that God would call men, women, and families from this small congregation to reach the Ch´ortí, the Garifuna, the Lenca, the Miskitos, the Pech, the Tawahka, the Tolupanes, the Bay Island Creole.

Our time in Honduras was well spent as we traveled and made many contacts to gather the needed research on these people groups. There is evangelical work among each group, but there are many still to hear and follow the Light of the Gospel. Many of the groups live in remote and difficult to reach areas. Not just anyone will go to these areas…only those who have a burden and a desire that these people have an opportunity to hear, to respond, to be discipled, to become missionaries to continue to reach others for Christ. It is a continuing growth cycle, not a one shot in the dark.

Continue to pray that God would call men, women, and families from your congregation to continue the growth cycle of faithful believers who will continue the process until Christ returns.

Sharing what it is all about

Much of our work is advance-preparation.  We travel the roads, the byways, and even sometimes the hedges, to find the areas where the Gospel has not penetrated the darkness.  We rejoice when we find the Light shining brightly in cities, towns, villages, communities through the lives of His people scattered throughout the lands.  And we grieve in those areas where darkness still holds men bound in lostness without hope.  It's true that many of those areas have "churches" but most offer a false doctrine that doesn't present the message of Salvation by faith alone in Jesus Christ.  It is here where we gather as much research as much as we can.

As we add our research into the database of the International Mission Board, it is with understanding that the future missionaries are being commissioned to areas with a less than 2% evangelical witness.  Most areas in Central America are considered 2% or above.  But is Central America evangelical?  No, not by any means. But if it is to be totally evangelized it must be reached by the national believers.  So it is with great joy that we are able to share our research with national churches in order for them to catch the vision of global outreach.

As with many of our churches in the states, churches here in Central America have become complacent.
Their thoughts include:

• Someone else will reach the lost.
• I don't have the training.
• I don't know the language.
• I don't have the funds.
• The missionaries are there to do the work.

As their thoughts have turned inward to themselves and to what the missionaries or mission teams can bring/give them, they have a tendency to shrink, developing a consumer mentality...just like in the states.  God did not intend for us to focus on ourselves but to continue the work throughout the world until ALL have heard and responded to the Gospel!

Last year as we shared our research from the Ch'orti', Pastor Victoriano and our church caught the vision and have begun working there with the goal by the end of this year to have a church planter from our church living among the Ch'orti' presenting the claims of Christ to those walking in darkness, longing to know the Truth.

As we have shared our goal of what we do in our research with Pastor Nahum here in Copán Ruinas, he has asked David to share with two different congregations this Sunday.  David will share the areas we have discovered where the Light of the Gospel is non existent or dimmed with the goal that his people will catch the vision of going, sharing, and living wherever God calls.  Everyone is sent! 

Pray for David as He prepares - it takes much time to prepare to share your heart and God's vision in another language.
Pray for Pastor Nahum as He hears the call.
Pray for the people as they are challenged to walk in obedience.
Pray for those will be called to serve in areas that are foreign to them that the path will be illuminated as they go.

The oft' traveled roads of Honduras

Since pictures are so difficult to upload on our computer while we are in Honduras I haven't shown you any of the beautiful scenery that we are enjoying as we travel.  But I did want you to see where all our journey has taken us.

Follow the blue wider line on the map below and you will see out first journey.  We left Copan Ruinas and went to San Pedro Sula then on to La Ceiba on the Caribbean Sea.  From there we traveled further west and then headed down south.  We stopped in El Carbon and then spent three nights in San Esteban.  We traveled south then west to the capital city of Tegucigolpa for a couple of nights before heading north to San Pedro Sula and back west  to Copan Ruinas.  That was the long trip about which you recently read.

One day last week, we traveled with Pastor Nahum on the red line down to town of Gracias.  We left about 7 in the morning and returned about 6 in the evening.

Earlier this week we traveled back to San Pedro Sula to El Progreso and back to La Ceiba.  We left on the 9:30 am ferry on Monday to the island of Roatan and then on over to West End.  Wednesday we took the 7 am return ferry to La Ceiba and returned to Copan Ruinas. That is the purple line on the map.

Now we will leave next Tuesday with Pastor Nahum again and take the orange marked route over to Orica.  It will be a hard 8 hour drive from Copan.  We will stay there overnight and then travel about 3 more hours to meet with another brother to gather the information we need and return to the same place to spend the night.  On the return trip the next day, we will stop in San Pedro Sula to get our car before returning to Copan Ruinas.  Then a couple of days later, we will be return to our home in Guatemala.

As you can see from the map, we have done alot of driving (thanks to my wonderful "chafeur") and alot of bumping along the way.  But along every mile we have seen the glory of the Lord.  As we have traveled some of the roads for the second time (or more) we often say, it sure makes a difference when you know where you're going!  We appreciate your prayers for us; we do not take it lightly that it is indeed God who goes before us, behind us, beside us, beneath us, above us and in us. 



As you contiue to pray for us as we travel, pray for those along the way who still need to hear the message of Salvation in faith alone in Jesus Christ.