November 2000



Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            November marks the two year anniversary of my being accepted by the mission board back in 1998.  However it wasn’t until August of 1999, after absolving my Landscape and Lawncare business,  that I was able to start deputation full time.  So, it’s been a year and three months so far on the deputation trail, and God has blessed with 65% of my support!  I’ve seen many other blessings along the way, and I’m looking forward to seeing what God has in store for the end of this year and the beginning of the next!  Below are some of the highlights of the month of November.

SIGHT

            On November 9th, I had LASIK laser eye surgery on both eyes to do away with glasses.  My biggest concern was that my glasses would break or get lost in Honduras, and that I’d be stranded without being able to see.  There are no Optical stores on every street corner like here in America. (Or at least not where I’m going to be).  But, now, Praise God,  I’m glasses free!

SEEDS

            Also, in November I attended a Missions Conference in Ft. Myers, Florida hosted by ECHO (Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization).   It is a Christian organization that desires to help missionaries worldwide with seeds, information, and products that will help the people better their standard of living.  Their main thrust is dispersing seeds.  I thought it would be a wonderful thing to take seeds to the people and distribute them, and use that to preach about the seed of the word of God!  I could take a physical thing and use it to expain the spiritual new birth.  I’m excited about that, and look forward to using those seeds to spread the gospel!

SALVATION       

            Toward the end of November I went on visitation with a friend of mine in McKinney, Texas and was able to lead a Catholic young man in his mid twenties to the Lord named Nick.  I asked him if he was saved and he said, “I’m Catholic.”  I asked him if I could show him some verses and he said, “Yes.”  So, after going through Hebrews 10 and many other passages, he realized the Catholic church could not save him, and he trusted Jesus Christ as his Saviour!  We also gave him a Bible.  Please pray he’ll read it and grow.

STUDY

            Also in November, I had a Missions Conference in Houston, Texas.  I had a great time, and was looking forward to going, because that is where my father and grandfather were born, and I was hoping to find out more about them and my heritage.  I spent some time in the Library tracing my family back and found out some interesting news.  My great great great great Grandfather was a Baptist Minister!   His name was Dr. Jacob Manly Cantey Breaker, and he pastored the First Baptist Church there in Houston, Texas in the late 1800’s.  I thought that was really great.  I’ve got someone else to look forward to seeing in Heaven!!!

            So, that’s it for the month of November.  Please keep me in your prayers.  And, may God continue to bless you as you continue to serve Him!

Because He shed His blood for me,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

October 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

          Thank you for your continued prayers and support!  The month of October took me through fifteen different states.  But, it was worth while as I had 3 new churches take me on for support.  And, I saw my support level raise to almost 65%. 

         

          October also brought some ups and downs.  First, the down.   During the first week of October, I had a slight fender bender in Pennsylvania, but the Lord took care of me, and I was unhurt, and had no damage to my truck what-so-ever.  However, the other man’s bumper and hood were dented up pretty badly and had to be fixed. 

          The Lord does make good things out of bad though, as Romans 8:28 is still in the Bible.  Even though my insurance went up,  I was spared a ticket.  And, because it was not serious, the officer called it “a non reportable accident” and sent me on my way.  Plus, I was able to give both the man I rear- ended and the police man that responded to the accident both tracts! 

    

          Now for the up.  In a church in Missouri, I was able to lead a 19 year old boy to Christ after the church service.  His name is Matt Graham.  I heard that he was a visitor, and after the service I asked him if he was born again.  He looked at me and said, “Well, that’s really the reason I came today, I wanted to find out more about it, and how to be.”   So, I took him through many different Bible verses, and about 20 minutes later he trusted Christ as his Saviour!   Please remember him in your prayers.

          So, that’s about it for October.  Please pray for me in November as I have meetings in Minnesota, Florida, and Texas. 

          May God continue to bless you all, and may you keep looking up!

 Because He rose again,

 Robert R. Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

September 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            Greetings once again in the name of our glorious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!  I hope your month of September went as well as mine!  Most of it was spent on the deputation trail, traveling all over this great land of ours.  I had meetings in Maryland, Pennsylvannia, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, West Virginia and Virgina. I drove several thousands of miles, but it was worth it as two more churches took me on for support and 3 families as well!

            As well as gaining more support in the month of September, I also had several opportunities to witness in many places.  In downtown New York, I passed out tracts for several hours in front of the old Ed Sullivan theater.   I also passed out tracts on the subways as well as in the streets.  The people there were very cold, but many did receive tracts.

            Probably the greatest witness this month was my car.  It has Bible verses all over it, and people can’t help but notice them.  In Maryland for instance, I had a black man come up to me and tell me he liked my bumper stickers.  He said he was a Church of God in Christ preacher, and he began to tell me what he preached in a revival the night before.  He said, “You gotta get saved, and you’ve gotta live it, or you’ll lose it!”  I said, “I disagree!”  Then I began to show him out of the Bible about the doctrine of Eternal Security.  For almost 45 minutes he listened as we looked at many different Bible verses.  Afterwards, he looked me in the face and said, “Hmmm mmmm, I do believe we need to pray!  I’ve been teaching false doctrine, and I do want the Lord to forgive me!”  We had a word of prayer there and he asked God to forgive him for teaching something that was not so, and he asked God to give him another chance to preach the word!  Then after we had prayed, he asked me how I would lead someone to the Lord.  So, I took another 20 minutes and showed him from the Bible.  He said that he understood and that he was going to preach that because that’s what the Bible said, and not what some man or denomination said!  Glory to God! 

            Also in September, I stopped at a gas station in Rhode Island, and met a young man who worked there that said he liked my front license plate.  It said Jesus in big red letters.  I said, “Oh, thanks!  Are you a Christian?”  To the which he replied, “No, I’m a muslim!”  I had to stop for a minute and scratch my head.  Then I asked him why he’d think it was good if he was a Muslim.  He said because Muslims believe the prophets and Jesus was a prophet just like Mohammed.  Well, to make a long story short, I witnessed to him for about 30 minutes and got nowhere.  But, he did invite me to his Muslim Mosque to talk to the head man in charge.  I went with a pastor friend of mine and we talked to them for close to an hour.  They do not believe that Jesus died for anyone’s sins.  They think Allah took Jesus to heaven before he died. (This way they do away with the Blood Atonement.)  Plus, they don’t believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh!  (Thus, they do away with the diety of Christ as well).  We tried our best to learn what they believe, and at the same time tell them what the Bible said.  And, everytime we told them what we believed, they said that that was “unfortunate.”  When we left, we gave them tracts to read.  Please pray that they’d get saved.  The man’s name who took us there was Josef Kattan.  He was a Syrian Muslim.

            So, that’s about it for the month of September.  It came and went so very fast.  Thanks again for your prayers and support!  And, may God continue to bless all of you.

Because He arose,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

Some things the Muslims said to me while I was in their Mosque:

What they said that they believed:

            They do believe that Jesus was a prophet.

            They do believe that Jesus is coming back.

            They do believe that Allah is the only God, and beside him there is no other God.

            They do believe that Mohammed was the last prophet.

            They do believe that all religions worship the same God (whom they call Allah)

            They believe that there are minor sins and major sins.

            They believe that if the minor sins can be forgiven by prayer and washing by water.

            They believe the major sins can be forgiven by repenting and prayer and washing by water.

            They believe in Anti semitism. 

            They are anti Jewish and this guy called the Jews the antichrist.

            They believe there is an antichrist coming... and the Jews will follow him.

            They believe that Jesus is coming again, and will be the leader of the Muslims.

What they said that they didn’t believe:

            They don’t believe that Jesus Christ was God manifest in the flesh

            They don’t believe that Jesus Christ died on a cross.  They only believe that he was taken to heaven       before he died.

            They don’t believe salvation is by faith

            They believe salvation is by works (praying 5 times a day, washing with water, etc.)

            They don’t believe in the trinity.

            They don’t believe the New Testament, but do believe parts of the old. 

        

 

August 2000

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! 

July 2000

Dear Beloved of God,

            I did a lot of traveling to meetings in July, and spent most of the month in South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida.  In between meetings, I spent the first week of July in South Carolina working with a church there trying to help them build a spanish ministry.  We went on visitation in several spanish speaking communties, and distributed tracts, and a few Bibles, as we invited them to church. I also got a chance to do the same thing in Cullman, Alabama in a Mexican apartment complex, and trailer park there.  A brother from the church knew where they were, but he couldn’t speak their language.  So, we went together, and witnessed to them and passed out tracts.  I really enjoy ministering to the Hispanics people, and hope the Lord continues to allow me to do so on deputation.

            Also in July, I was in a missions conference in Tennessee, when the Pastor got word from one of his church members that a lost 73 year old elderly man was in the hospital.  He had just undergone surgery early that morning, and was given only twenty four hours to live.  The Pastor then came to the dorm where I was staying and woke me up and asked me if I’d go and see him and witness to him as quickly as possible!  I readily accepted!  After I took the fastest shower of my life, and got dressed lickety-split, I jumped in my car and sped to the hospital praying the whole way.  All I could think about was that he would live long enough to hear the gospel!  I think I was going a little over the speed limit but, all I knew was that man needed to be saved!  When I got there I walked into intensive care and found him and began to witness.  I took his hand and asked him to just listen and squeeze my hand once for “yes” and twice for “no.”  But, he was too weak to do that.  So, I went through the Bible with him and gave him the gospel.  I asked him if he was a sinner, and he nodded his head ever so slightly.  Then I gave him some verses on Hell, and how to be saved.  Then I asked him if he’d like to get saved, and he shook his head up and down a lot faster!  Right then and there, James Goad trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour as tears flowed down his face.  There was just a totally different look in his eyes afterwards.  Then I went through and gave him some verses on Heaven and how wonderful it’s going to be.  To make a long story short, as soon as I finished reading to him, his family came in.  They told me that his grandkids went to the church there in Tennessee.  Then it struck me.  The night before I gave my testimony about my grandfather, and how he would never listen about Jesus.  I remember saying, “If I couldn’t win my grandpa to the Lord, maybe I could win someone else’s.”  And,when they told me about his grandkids, I realized this man was someone’s grandpa!  Isn’t God good? 

            Toward the end of July, I met up with a friend of mine that graduated with me from Bible School. We decided to take a trip to Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee together and get out some gospel tracts.  As we were walking down the street, a little black boy came up to us and said, “Tip for flip!”  I said, “What?” He said, “Tip for flip!”  Then he explained he’d do a cartwheel for some money.  I asked him if he was hungry, and he said, “Yeah.”  So, we bought him lunch at one of the resturants there, and for the next 30 minutes, we witnessed to him about Jesus.  He didn’t get saved, but it was good to plant the seed.  I hope sometime when he gets older he’ll remember that someone loved him enough to buy him some food and take time to tell him about Jesus.  That’s what being a missionary is all about!

            Finally, I’d like to tell you about streetpreaching in Bolivar, Tennessee.  I was preaching to the cars stopped at a stoplight when I noticed 10 or 15 young teenagers across the street parked at a gas station poking fun.  They laughed and mocked and even yelled back a few vulgarities.  This made me want to preach even harder, which I did!  Eventually, they made it clear they didn’t like me and continued to yell and mock.  So, I marched over to my car, and grabbed a handful of tracts and marched right over there to give them to them.  When they saw me coming they took off!  I’ve never seen anyone run so fast in all my life!  They all jumped in their cars and went 20 different directions peeling out.  What did they have to be afraid off?  There were more of them than there were of me.  I guess it’s true, cockroaches really do run from the light!  And, in this case it was the light of the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.

            Please continue to keep me in your prayers as I leave for Honduras August 1st and return August 20th.

Because He lives,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras



June 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            Greetings once again in the name our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!  I hope this letter finds you all in good health and in walking in the joy of the Lord, which is your strength (Neh. 8:10)!

            Well, it’s hard to believe that the year two thousand is now over half over. But, I’m glad to report I have now a little more than half of my support!  God has been good!  I had several more churches take me on for support in June.  One church in Lawerenceburg, Tennessee took me on for one hundred and fifty dollars a month!  So, I praise God for that!

            For most of the month of June, I was in Arkansas and Oklahoma with meetings there.  In between meetings, I spent some time with my mother and grandmother in Oklahoma, and I got to talk to them about the Lord.  I’ve tried to witness to them before, but they would never really open up and tell me their testimony.  But, while I was there this time they did.

            When my grandmother and I were alone she told me that she was glad that I was a preacher, and not to worry about her, because she had been saved as a teenager, and made peace with her Maker.  I was glad to hear that!           

            I was worried about my mother also, because she attends several different Charasmatic churches.  And, before when I’d ask her about when she got saved, she would get offended.  But, while I was with her this time, she gave me her testimony, and told me that she was born again when she was younger.  She even took me to Wayne, Oklahoma to see the little church that she was saved in. I was glad to hear that because I didn’t know if she was saved or not.  Now, I’m praying that she’ll get into a good Bible believing church! 

            Also, In June, I went to Little Rock, Arkansas, and preached on the street several blocks from the capital.  I took with me a 13 year old boy from one of the local churches there.  He’d never been streetpreaching before, but he took to it like a fish to water!  He enjoyed it and we had a good time. It’s been one of my goals on deputation to go to as many state capitals as I can while I’m traveling the country and streetpreach. So, far I’ve been to about 12 different ones, and I hope to get to many more before I finish deputation.

            Finally in June, I got to lead a soul to the saving knowledge of the truth!  On June 3rd, I stopped at a gas station in Mississippi, and was able to lead an eighteen year old black man to the Lord named Rachen.  (Please add him to your prayer list that he might grow!)

            Thanks again for all your prayers, support, and correspondence.  May God continually bless and keep you!

Because He lives,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

May 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            Greetings once again in the glorious name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!  I hope this letter finds you in good health and in the joy of the Lord.

            Even though this is a May prayerletter, I must tell you about what happened the last day of April.  After showing my slides in a Sunday morning service in Boaz, Alabama, a brother invited me to do visitation at an all Spanish Trailer park by his house.  He had a burden for the Mexicans there, but did not know how to speak Spanish.  I told him I’d be more than happy to go, so we went together, and had a wonderful time visiting.  We handed out two Spanish Bibles, and many tracts.  Plus, I was able to lead a guy to the Lord named Austin.  He’s a 23 year old man from Mexico, and he’s here working in the United States.  (Please add him to your pray list, that he may grow!)

            Now back to the month of May, the Lord opened the door again to visit a Spanish Trailer Park in Beaufort, South Carolina.  A Puerto Rican brother from the church there asked me to go because he didn’t speak spanish, but he had a burden for the Hispanic people.  We went togther and visited about 5 trailers.  At the first trailer, I preached to about 3 Mexicans for almost 10 minutes, and had one profession of faith! 

            At the next trailer, I had one Mexican get very excited.  I told him we were telling people about Jesus Christ and asked him if he was saved.  He said he was, and that he wanted a church to go to here in the United States.  He didn’t speak a lick of English, but he said he had just been talking with some of the other Mexicans there in the trailer park and they were wanting to go to church also.  So, I told them about the church there in Beaufort, and the brother I was with said they had a man in their church that could translate into Spanish, and that he would come and get them and take them to church if they wished.  They were very happy about the idea and wanted to go!  The last I heard, they have been going faithfully, and the church there in Beaufort wants to start a Spanish church!

            At the last trailer we visited, we came across a Catholic man and his sons.  Even though they were eating dinner, they invited us in and asked me to tell them about Jesus.  After witnessing to them, He said “¿Que doctrina es?”  (What doctrine is this?)   I told him again that salvation is not in Mary, or in a church, but only by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ!  After I pushed for a decision, he said, “Well I need to think about it and study it some more.  I’m not ready right now...”   I left a tract in Spanish entitled “Are Roman Catholics Christians?”  And, asked him if he would to read it and prayerfully ask God to show him the truth!  (Please pray for him that he and his sons would get saved!)

            Also in May, I was priviledged to attend the Beale Street Blast in Memphis, Tennessee.  Every May, streetpreachers from all over go to downtown Memphis for four days of streetpreaching on Beale street.  This was the first year I was able to attend, and boy was it awesome.  There were thousands of people on the streets.  They were so close together, you could barely walk in between them.  I think we had almost a hundred streetpreachers preaching the gospel, and getting out tracts.  I believe they said we had 12 people saved!  If you get a chance to attend next year it would be worth it!

            Also back in my October 1999 prayerletter, I told how I came upon a man who knew about village in Cane, Honduras that had a church without a Pastor, and that the whole village was praying for a man to come and preach to them and teach the Bible.  Well, I called down there and spoke to the people and they told me that they would love for me to come and teach and preach to them.  They said there were about 2000 people in that village.  And, they are wanting to have someone come and teach them the Bible.  I was excited to hear that! 

            So, I bought my ticket, and I’ll be going to Honduras on August 1st - 20th of this year.  I’ll be preaching at that church and doing visitation in that village, as well as visiting two other works in Honduras.  One is a school for children and the other is an orphanage.  As you know the Lord has laid the children on my heart as well as starting a church, and I’d like to see how these ministries are run, so that I’ll know how to start one if God allows.  Please contine to pray for me and this trip, that God would show me if the village of Cane is where he wants me to return when I finish deputation.

Because He lives,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

March - April 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            The months of March and April have been long and seemed to have dragged on and on.  I spent a majority of the time on the road in Michigan and Ohio with meetings there for six weeks.    But, I’m happy to report that 4 new Churches took me on for support during this time, and a couple more promised to take me on later as the Lord allows.

            In March I had quite a humiliating experience.  Who ever said that serving God was not fun is wrong.  It’s a blast!  But, there are times when it doesn’t always go smoothly, and you end up looking like a fool in the eyes of the world.  If anyone has ever had disasters in personal work, it’s been me.  I’ve been spit upon, laughed at and mocked while witnessing for Christ.  Not to mention that time while I was passing out tracts in Canada that a J.W. lady hit me.  But, this one takes the cake.  I travel a lot, and I like to stop in big cities and go streetpreaching.   This particular time, I stopped in downtown Columbus, Ohio to preach on the street and pass out tracts.  I had my Bible in one hand and a Scripture sign in the other.   Plus I had a big stack of tracts, but no where to hold them.  So, I sat them down by the side of a building for a few minutes and began preaching the gospel as loudly as I could.  The acoustics were great!  My voice bounced off of buildings and could be heard all over the downtown area.  I was really enjoying myself!  About that time, however, a tremendous gust of  wind came out of nowhere and blew as hard as it could.  Over 300 tracts went flying everywhere.  Then the wind bounced off the next building and blew strait up!  Tracts were soaring 50 feet in the air, and spreading all over the city.  It was raining tracts!  I didn’t know what to do, so I kept on preaching.  In the back of my mind I thought, maybe people will pick them up and read them!!!   Suddenly there was a tap on my shoulder.  I turned around to see a city worker who had seen the whole thing.  He looked at me and said, “Aren’t those your pamplets?”  I said rather timidly, “Uh, I guess so.”  Then he said, “Well you’re going to pick them all up aren’t you?”  By that time they were all over the city.  Some of them were stuck to windows on the third and fourth floors of buildings, some had blown into the front door of buildings, but most of them where all over the ground 5 and 6 blocks away in every direction.  I looked and to my suprise no one was picking them up.  So, for the next 2 hours I had to walk all over the city of Columbus picking up gospel tracts.  I’d pick a couple up, then hand a couple out.  Pick up a few more, and then hand them out.  I must have gotten out about 400 tracts that day total, but I sure did feel stupid!  But, as humiliating as it was, it’s good to know that I was a fool for Christ!          

            Also while in Ohio, I was driving to a meeting one afternoon, when a man began following me very closely.  I kept looking back in my rear view mirror trying to see what he was doing.  It finally dawned on me that he was reading my bumper stickers with Bible verses on them.  Then he began honking excessively and making rude gestures at me with his hands.  Afterwards I could see him in my rear view mirror writing something on a piece of paper.  When he had finished writing he passed me and held up a sign for me to read.  He had written, “There is no God!”  The verse that popped into my mind was Psalm 14:1.  “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”  This poor guy made a fool out of himself to try to disprove the existence of God. 

            In April, I made a two day trip to Chicago with some friends and we toured the city.   We got out a lot of gospel tracts, and we also got to see the Pacific Garden Mission.  It was a great place and a real blessing to see so big an institution doing God’s work there.  Most people don’t know this, but that is where Billy Sunday was saved! 

            Also, in April, I was able to attend a Missions Conference in my hometown at the church where I used to Pastor.  It was a real blessing to see the work there still going on.  They are still a small church, but I trust the Lord will bless them as they continue to take on missionaries. 

            And, finally on Easter, I had the opportunity to preach to an all Spanish church here in Florida.  I always enjoy practicing my Spanish!   After the service we had one saved.  His name was Jose Luis.  Please keep him in your prayers, as the apostle Peter said that he may “grow in grace, and in knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.”  (2 Peter 3:18).

Because He lives,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

Me at the Pacific Garden Mission in the Billy Sunday Chapel 

February 2000

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            The month of February has been an interesting one.   I’ve been encouraged, I’ve had my faith strengthed, and I’ve seen God’s hand at work in getting me closer to Honduras.  He’s also given me somethings I can use when I get there. 

            But February has also brought some news that turned my once heartfelt sorrow into gladness.  As most of you know, my uncle was shot and killed in the Dominican Republic in the summer of ‘98 while I was in Honduras.  He was saved, and a Christian, but my family and I hadn’t heard from him much in over 10 years.  We weren’t sure how he was or what he was doing.  My main concern was that he was living for Christ and witnessing.

            Since he died, we tried to get the story of what happened, but calling down there was expensive, and when someone did call us, they didn’t know much, or we got conflicting stories.  We had just pretty much forgotten about it until the first of February when I received a phone call from a man named Donald Dacosta.  He told me that he was an old sailor friend of my uncle’s, and that he had just heard about what happened.  He was heartbroken and almost in tears as he offered his condolances.  I told him I was going to south Florida the middle of February for some meetings and asked if I could stop by and meet him, and talk with him.  My intention was to witness to him.  It turns out he almost started witnessing to me!

            When I arrived at his home, he invited me inside and told me countless stories about my uncle Doug and how and where they met.  He said Doug was always talking about the Lord, and telling everyone he could about Jesus Christ.  I asked him if he had ever been saved, and he said, “Yes.”  He said, Doug always told him that “the most important thing in this life was to be born again, and have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and trust his perfect blood to save your soul!”  I asked him if he had done that and he said he did one day after Doug talked with him.  I was exstatic!  I now know that my uncle was witnessing for Jesus Christ and winning souls too!  What a blessing to know that he was faithful!

            Also in February, God gave me a whole bunch of Spanish New Testaments and John and Romans to distribute in Honduras.  Last September, I had a meeting in Marathon, Florida (close to Key West).  Several weeks after that, I received a phone call from a man at that church who said he had many boxes of Bibles in Spanish in his basement.  They had been there for almost six years and were part of a shipment that was supposed to go to Cuba.  Somehow that didn’t work out and they weren’t able to be sent, and for those six years, he was looking for someone that could use them.  He offered them to me and I readily accepted!    In the middle of February, I drove all the way down there, and picked up the Bibles, and it turned out that there were 60 boxes of material from Bearing precious seed.  30 boxes were John and Romans, and 30 were New Testaments.  All total, it added up to over 10,000 pieces of literature.  After getting them home in a U haul trailer, my next concern was how to get them to Honduras, but God supplied (as he always does) and a church in Birmingham, Alabama offered to send them over to a missionary already there.  He has a big warehouse, and he’ll keep them for me until I finish deputation, and am able to get there to distribute them.  So I praise God that I’ll have some material to pass out when I get to Honduras.

            I also had a blessing with one saved on Feb. 20th in Tallassee, Alabama.  I preached on Jonah, and about running from God.  Then, after the service, Joshua Moore age 25 walked the isle and got saved! 

            I also had three new churches take me on for support in February!  So, God is continuing to supply my need, and I thank Him for that.  I’m reminded of 1 Corinthians 1:9 which says “God is faithful...” And, boy am I thankful he is!  He’s sure been good to me, and I’m enjoying serving him.  Please continue to pray for me, and the lost souls in Honduras.

Because He lives,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Your Missionary to Honduras