Food Shortage in Honduras

Dear Church Family,

I received more information from Honduras regarding the food shortage in the Chorti villages. I wanted to share this with you. Please pray specifically for the prayer requests mentioned below. If you feel led to supply funds for the food distribution, please bring it to the church office.

Jase

From Steve and Audrey Long...........We were here in March and found that the Chorti were beginning to have a shortage in their food supply. We returned in June to find the situation much worse. We have visited several of the villages and their concern is the fact that they do not have enough food and in some cases no food at all. In reviewing the information we have received, it is twice as bad as it was in 2007 when we did a food distribution for the Chorti.

Having said all of the above, Parkwood Baptist (Steve & Audrey's church in North Carolina) has undertaken to do another food distribution for the Chorti. Our goal is to provide enough corn & beans for a month for the communities involved in the Ag project. In 2007, that was over 1,000 families. This time there is a greater need and the number I’m sure will be higher. We are in the process of applying for Baptist Global Response funds, but as you know that takes time and there is no assurance the funds will be available. We feel the need is great enough to ask if folks feel so led to assist Parkwood in raising the needed funds to supply food for the Chorti. Above all, however, we ask your prayer support that the funds will come quickly, the rains be adequate for a good harvest and most of all through this the Chorti will come to know Christ as their Savior.