On the Road.........

Part of the first Honduras team departed from the church at 1:30 PM. Whitney and Jase at the same time were flying from Florida (youth camp) to Dallas to meet up with the team. Todd Warren and Claire Goodman will also meet up with them in Dallas.

The team will fly out of DFW tomorrow morning at 5:45 AM. Please pray from them as they travel. Continue to pray for the Food Distribution effort for the Chorti. Pray that the funds will come in quickly and the effort can begin this week. We know that God can work out every tiny detail.

New Team Member

Trish Beaty is now going to Honduras with the first team!! Please add her to your prayer list as she ministers in Honduras.

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.

Honduras Food Distribution

Steve Long called Jase today to let him know that the food distribution has been approved for the Chorti villages. This is an answer to prayer!!!!! Pray that all the details that will be involved will be resolved and planned for without delaying the process to obtain and distribute food to the Chorti. Pray that through this effort other Chorti will come to know Jesus as their Savior and His name be glorified.

If all details are worked out quickly, our 2 teams can help distribute the food which would be a great help to Steve and Audry. It takes a team of people to accomplish this distribution. Steve and Audry could not do it alone. This changes the teams' plans but God's plans and timing are always perfect.

Thanks you for your continued prayers. Steve and Audry said that they have witnessed true hunger in the villages these past couple of weeks.

Prayer Requests for Honduras

The Burtch family is back in the states. They arrived in Houston yesterday and will be back in Seminole today. We can't wait to see them, hear all about their trip, and see pictures.

Steve and Audrey Long, the missionary couple in Honduras, sent some prayer requests that we wanted to share with you.

• Pray for the food situation among the Chorti. In their last planting they lost the majority of their crops due to too much rain. It rained so much; they could not get into the fields to harvest their corn. The corn developed a fungus and could not be used for food. Most villages have little to no food. Pray that a solution will come soon and that the barriers will be small, plans will be made quickly without problems. The missionaries have applied for aide to distribute beans and corn.

• The village leader of El Zapote, Alonzo, lost his wife this week. She had been sick for 9 years with a liver condition. Please pray for this family and the entire village.

• Pray that a leader will be raised up to share the gospel and plant churches in each village.

• Pray for the crops that are being planted that they will flourish and produce a bountiful harvest.

• Pray for the team that will come on July 1 from FBC Seminole. They will have back to back teams. One leaves on July 8 and the other team arrives on July 8. Pray for us as we continue here in Honduras.

We also wanted to share the names of those going this year so you can begin praying for them.

The first team will depart Seminole on Thursday, June 30th and drive to Dallas. They fly out of Dallas early Friday, July 1st. Jase Waller and Whitney Warren will be flying from Panama City Beach, FL (youth camp) to Dallas on Thursday to meet up with the team. They will fly back into Dallas on Friday, July 8th and return to Seminole on Saturday, July 9th.

July 1-8

• Jase Waller
• Whitney Warren
• Todd Warren
• Sean Decker
• Amber Decker
• Caleb Decker
• Hayden Waller
• Trevor Greenfield
• Arely Gonsales
• Crystal Caviness
• Claire Goodman

The second team will fly out of Midland on Friday morning, July 8th and return to Midland on Friday, July 15th.

• July 8-15
• Jase Waller
• Garrison Jones
• Mason Caviness
• Jenna Johnson
• Brittany Farmer
• Micah Clay
• Kimberly Clay
• Kenzie Perryman
• Bailey Waller

Jacob's Blog

Well today we are leaving and I must admit it is harder than I had expected. To be perfectly honest I was sort of ready to be back to a normal life in America, but now leaving I feel that I do not deserve to come back to the luxurious life I have. These children are the ones that deserve the best life has to offer. They are consistently happy and joyful when they have hardly anything to be happy or joyful about. Their parents abandoned them and nobody wanted to have anything to do with them, yet they are just happy to be alive. Seeing this makes me furious that I can be so selfish and stubborn to think that when everything doesn't go exactly the way I want it to then it's not right.
Earlier this morning I had to say goodbye to Moses; the sixteen year old boy that I had become rather close to the last eight days. I told him to come by at 6:30 to wake me up so I could say goodbye and he was there right on the dot. We said goodbye and he nearly started crying. I don't know why God has blessed me with the life I have, but this trip has brought me to the reality once again of how blessed I am.
Thank you again for your thoughts and prayers.

For Him,
Jacob

Monday Night

Partners in Christ –

Another busy day! Nothing new, just us playing with the children, helping in the classrooms and helping Jeff and Carla (the Americans that own the land and manage the home) with one last small project.

We all went to a local medical clinic to get tested for Malaria. I drove - which was an experience. The vehicle was a Toyota Land Cruiser, stick shift, with the steering wheel on the wrong side of the cab and I was driving on the wrong side of the road. It was great! We got there safely. The medical clinic was interesting. Very small. The waiting room was a small porch area in front. Dr. Shadrach’s office was a small room about 10’x10’. We each got some blood taken to check for Malaria and the results came back that Jacob, Katelyn and my sister-in-law, Audra, all have Malaria. Each will either take prescription or receive injections depending on the severity of the infection. Please pray for each.

We will fly back to Nairobi tomorrow afternoon and then fly out of Nairobi at midnight. I will write one more blog to try to summarize our trip. We each have become rather fond of several children and it will be very hard to leave them tomorrow. I know that each of us would bring a child home with us if we could. I’m not sure that we could narrow it down to only one child for each of us.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and thoughts.

In Him - CCJMKJ