Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As most of you know I took a three week trip to Honduras in August with two other guys. One from my local church and another from a church here in Pensacola that knows Honduras very well. My intention for going was to find out were the Lord would have me to go when I finished deputation. I also wanted to visit an orphange and a Christian school while I was there to see how they are run, because I’m praying about starting one or the other along with a church. Well, the trip went well, and the Lord really blessed. We passed out over 30,000 tracts along the way, and saw over 15 souls saved!
During my three weeks in Honduras, there were four main places that I wanted to visit. They were the villages of Cane, Yuscaran, Tegucigalpa, and San Jose. Tegucigalpa was the location of the Christian School. San Jose was the orphanage. Yuscaran was a village with to my knowledge, no gospel witness. And, Cane was the small town with a Baptist church that had been without a pastor for 3 years. Glory to God, I was able to visit all these places and more.
In Tegucigalpa, I worked with Pastor Abel Bonilla for a short time in his Christian school and learned about how to run one. There Bro. Abel asked me to come and work with him when I returned to Honduras. I told him I’d have to pray about it. That certainly sounds like an open door, but I wanted to know God’s will.
From Tegucigalpa, I traveled to the village of El Paraiso (Paradise in English) and preached in a church there. After the service two accepted Christ as their saviour! I praise God for that! But, while there my heart broke when I talked to a 14 year old girl. She told me she was the only one in her village that was saved. I prayed and said, “Lord, is her village where you want me to go?”
From El Paraiso we journeyed to Yuscaran and passed out tracts. There we found an isolated town of over 2000 people with no Independent Bible Believing Baptist work. My heart bled for this town, as I continually prayed and asked God if this was were he wanted me. From there we traveled to the village of Cane. We passed out tracts to every house in this small town and then we found the church. I wanted to preach there if the Lord would permit. We found out it was a Southern Baptist Church and they didn’t want us preaching there. So, that door was shut. Still I continued praying about Cane because I had a burden for that place. But, it was a burden, not a call! I wanted to know where God wanted me in Honduras!
While in Tegucigalpa passing out tracts and preaching on the street, I had four guys come up to me and ask me for Bibles. They said they were Lenca Indians and that they wanted someone to come and visit them and bring their people Bibles, as well. I didn’t think much about it at first, and I gave them some Bibles. I only had three on me, and there were four of them. So, one didn’t get a Bible. Then, they wrote their names on a piece of paper and gave it too me and were on their way. I stuffed the paper in my pocket and kept on passing out tracts. Later I looked at the paper and read it. It had their names, and the city (Colomoncauga) and state (Intibuca) they were from in Honduras. But, they had also written, “We want someone to come and visit us.” Then I remembered Acts 16, “The Macedonian Call.”
So, after reading Acts 16 again, we packed up all the Bibles we had, and by faith we took a 10 hour bus trip to a place we’ve never been before, to see people that didn’t know we are coming, and not knowing if there will be a place for us to stay when we get there! To make a long story short, we found a place to stay. And, in the morning we sat down at breakfast to eat at a comedor (it’s like a cafeteria only in someone’s home), and guess who’s sitting at the table? The guy from Tegucigalpa that didn’t get a Bible! Isn’t it wild how God works?
So, we gave him a Bible, and afterwards in came the other Indians and told us to get the Bibles and come with them. So, we did. They took us into a little room with a horseshoe shaped table and then asked Abe and I to sit up front. Then they began to explain that they were all heads of the different aldeas (or little towns) outside of the city of Colomoncaugua, and that they want to make their community a better place. They wanted someone to come to them and start a school for their children, and a church! That was wild! It was just what I was praying about doing! After, that I gave all of them a Bible and asked them if I could preach to them about the gospel! They readily agreed, and I preached for about 30 minutes. After which all 11 men there made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ!!! That was too awesome! I now believe that I know were God wants me to go when I return to Honduras. They told me that there are 25 different villages in the mountains outside of Colomoncagua and it’s my desire to start a work in Colomoncauga, and then work out to those 25 different villages.
If that wasn’t a big enough blesssing, after that I also preached in the orphanage in San Jose toward the end of the trip and had one trust Christ as his Saviour! Then, that night my friend Abe preached, and a 16 year old boy named Luis trusted Christ’s righteousness to save him!
God was good, and directed my path and showed me where to go back when I finish deputation. I’m thankful I serve a living Saviour that loves his own and guides them along. Please continue to keep me in your prayers, that God would help me to finish depuation quickly and get back to Honduras to work with these Lenca Indians.
Because He lives,
Robert Ray Breaker III
Missionary to Honduras
A Brief Summary of the Trip
August 1st 2000 Arrived at Tegucigalpa international airport, and met Pastor Abel Bonilla. Went back to church with him, and set up a schedule for the trip. In the evening we went on Visitation, and got out several hundred tracts.
August 2nd 2000 I gave a 15 minute devotion to the kids at the Pastor’s school. Afterwards we went to the University of Tegucigalpa. There were people everywhere! We passed out over 6,000 tracts in less than 5 hours! I gave away two Bibles!
August 3rd 2000 Went to a public school in Comayaguela and preached to over 300 kids. After preaching we passed out chick tracts to the kids. No telling how many accepted Christ as their saviour! After the school, we passed out almost 1,000 tracts in the main park downtown in Tegucigalpa. In the evening, we went on Visitation, and I gave away a Bible to a 12 year old boy.
August 4th 2000 We went downtown in Tegucigalpa and passed out easily over 3,000 tracts in a short time. (Tegucigalpa is a city of over 1 million people). This is when the Indians came and asked me to visit their village.
In the evening we went to a village called El Paraiso close to the Nicaraguan border. I preached in the church there, and two accepted Christ as their Saviour!
August 5th 2000 We left the village of El Paraiso and went to the village of Danli. It’s a small village that needs a church. We passed out tracts there, and then went to the town of Yuscaran and did the same. Yuscaran is a town of over 2,000 people and the only church in their village is a Catholic church. They need a gospel witness. From there we went to
the Pastor’s house and had what they called “Kid’s club.” They gathered up the neighborhood kids and preached to them.
That night we went to a church there in Tegucigalpa for the teens night at church. The Pastor preached a great message.
Afterwards I talked to the Pastor. He said that the Pastor before him died of Cancer. He was only 23 years old! How sad. Honduras needs missionaries!!!
August 6th 2000 Sunday morning church service at Pastor Bonilla’s. It was a blessing, because one of the people we invited to church on visitation showed up for service. He even used some of his hard earned money to take a taxi to church! He had just been saved several weeks ago, and I was able to give him a Bible.
August 7th 2000 Most of the day was spent running errands with the Pastor, and getting out tracts.
August 8th 2000 We passed out several thousand tracts in downtown Tegucigalpa and then we met up with another missionary named Chester Sheren. He took us to Comayagua.
August 9th 2000 Awoke to find we had no water. So, we ate breakfast and then went to the village of Cane. That’s the village I wrote about in my June prayerletter where there was a church with no Pastor. We found the church and asked around if I could preach there. But, we were told it was a Southern Baptist Church, and they wouldn’t allow an Independent Baptist to preach there. (They would rather have no one there at all, than have someone who wasn’t Southern Baptist). So, we walked around the whole village and went to every house and passed out tracts. I was hoping so much to preach there, but now it’s a closed door. But, that village still needs the truth.
August 10th 2000 Went to the city of La Paz. We passed out several thousand tracts there. We even walked into the hospital and handed out hundreds of tracts. Afterwards, we went back to Comayagua, and handed out anouther four or five hundred tracts. That night we prayed about going to the Lenca Indians. After praying, we read Acts sixteen.
August 11th 2000 We woke up at 4:30 A.M. and began our day. We left at 5:30 A.M. on a bus bound for Colomoncauga. We arrived in La Esperanza at about 9:00 A.M. There we ate breakfast and got out several hundred tracts. At 11:00 A.M. we left for Colomoncaugua and arrived there five hours later. In Colomoncaugua we passed out tracts and asked around for a place to stay. Plus we got to give out several Bibles.
August 12th 2000 We awoke at around 7:30 A.M. still exhausted from our agonizing trip. We sat down to breakfast, and to our surprise sitting at the table was one of the indian guys we met in Tegucigalpa. He was the one we didn’t get to give a bible too. So, I gave him a Bible,and he hugged it! Then the other indians came in and asked us to go with them. They led me into a room and asked me to sit in front of them. I gave them all Bibles and then preached and all 11 of them trusted Christ! I left them with all the Bibles I had and 70 New Testaments. They said they’d distribute them.
And, they asked me to come back and work with them when I return to Honduras.
August 13th 2000 We left Colomoncaugua on the early morning bus at 3:00 A.M. We arrive at La Esperanza at 8:00 A.M. and passed out tracts there. Then we journey to San Jose to visit another missionary. He has an orphanage and a Bible Institute there and I wanted to learn how he runs them. It took us 13 hours by bus before we finally got there!
Then that night, we heard him preach a message in the Sunday evening service.
August 14th 2000 His Bible Institute is from eight in the morning until 12 noon. So we sat in on that. Each course was one hour long. And, most of the students were from the orphanage there. At present he has over 130 kids in the orphanage. But, to start the Institute, they have to be over 13 years old. We sat in on the classes, and then in the afternoon helped the missionary haul dirt.
August 15th 2000 Today we took a bus to the see the Copan Indian Ruins of the ancient Mayan Indians. We passed out many tracts on the way and had a good time. We also got to witness to some English people there at the ruins. On the trip back we had to wait til after dark for our bus. We passed out tracts and stayed close to the night guard as so not to be robbed. Finally our bus came and we made it back to the missionary’s house. Not without being scared though by a gun shot in the distance while walking down the road to his house. Upon hearing it, we ran as fast as we could!
August 16th 2000 We attended one class at the Bible Institute at 8:00A.M til 9:00A.M. Then, we went with the missionary to the dentist in the town of Florida. He took about 25-30 kids to get their teeth checked. While there we passed out over 500 tracts in that town. We went into the pool halls, the stores, the park, and even into a cigar making factory to pass out tracts and everyone readily received us and asked for them! After that I preached at the orphanage, and we had one saved, and that night my friend preached the Wednesday night service and a 16 year old boy named Luis accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour! I preached in the church in San Jose that night.
August 17th 2000 We left the orphanage by bus and arrived again in Comayagua at about 3:45 P.M. We went that evening to the church with the missionary there and heard a good message.
August 18th 2000 I awoke with a terrible pain in my stomach. I was sick as a dog. But I went to town with them anyway and passed out tracts. I handed out about 200 tracts and then had to go back to the missionary’s house by taxi to rest. They stayed and handed out several hundred more.
August 19th 2000 Today I awoke feeling a lot better. After a shower and shave I ate a light breakfast. Then we went to Comayagua and handed out more tracts and shopped for souvenirs. I got to give a nun a tract entitled “Are Roman Catholics Christians?” That was awesome! I hope she reads it and gets saved! We handed out over 500 tracts and then we left by bus for the capital Tegucigalpa.
August 20th 2000 Our last day in Honduras. I didn’t want to leave! But, we had to. We left for the airport at about 9:30 A.M. Along the way we got out a good amount of tracts. And, at the airport we got out the last of our tracts. It was quite a relief to pass out the last one, and to know that you’ve passed out over 30,000 tracts in a three week period! There is no telling what good came from all those tracts, or how many got saved! I’m just glad we had the opportunity to do so!
