November - December 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

            Psalms 91:1 says, “It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord!”  And I’m learning to give thanks in both the good and the bad.  Sometimes things don’t always go the way we want them to, and it’s in these times that it’s easy to get discouraged.  But, I’ve learned that the more I give thanks in everything, the more the Lord seems to do, and this lifts my spirits and help me to continue on joyfully in his service.

 

Preaching

In November and December I had many opportunities to preach here in Honduras.  On Thanksgiving Day, I preached for Bro. Homero Romero on “The History of Thanksgiving.”  This is a new holiday in Honduras, and many don’t know what it’s all about.   But I explained to them the greatest reason we have to give thanks is our freedom to worship the Lord without persecution!  For it was for this freedom that the Pilgrim’s fled Europe.

On December 3rd, I had the opportunity to enter the Navy Base in Puerto Castilla on the Northern Coast and preach to the Navy men there and give them all Gospel tracts.  I even toured the ships and gave a tract to each sailor.

December 5th, I preached the 15^th Anniversary service of Bro. Perfecto Erazo’s church in La Ceiba.  I also preached several services for Missionary Santos Ortiz in the mountains outside of La Ceiba.

The end of December I preached in Olancho for several days from house to house.  We did not have services on Christmas day, as many of the people were too afraid of the drunks to leave their homes.  So I went to the Cantinas and preached to the drunks and gave them tracts.

We also visited the village of Aguas Blancas, and I was able to preach the gospel individually from house to house and put a Bible in each home.

Praise

Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ!  And thank God he’s still in the saving business!  In November Nelson Corrales, my convert, led two souls to Jesus Christ by himself!  Their names were Jose and Gloria.

            On December 15th, I had the privilege of leading three children to the Lord in my Children’s ministry after preaching a message from John 11:25,26.  Their ages were 13, 10, and 9.

 

Problems

The work that I had started in Magdalena, was destroyed by meddling Charismaniacs from the “Santidad” (Holiness) church.  They told everyone that “Baptists” were wicked, and that I was there “to start a work of the devil.”  Now no one will come to services as most of the town is related and most of the families go to the Santidad Church.  Although it hurts to see a work destroyed that I tried so hard in starting, I can give thanks for the two souls that were saved during my time there. 

The children’s ministry here in my home has been up and down.  Sometime the children come, sometimes they don’t.  I found out recently that the Santidad missionary’s wife up the street has been visiting them, and persuading them to go to her services instead of mine.  She gives them “stuff” to lure them to come.  I don’t have “stuff” to give, and am only interested in giving them the Bible.  Although they are rowdy and try my patience regularly, I am glad to have the opportunity to preach to those few kids that are still coming and tell them the “Wonderful Story” of the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Prayer Requests

            Nelson and I are talking about the possibility of working to together in his home village of Guanko in the “departmento” (state) of Olancho.  In December, I went with him and preached to the villages around the area.  I’ve been several times now, and we have seen many people come out to hear the preaching.  It appears to me that Olancho is wide open to the Gospel.  The people are a hard bunch and most of the men carry pistols.   It’s sort of like the Old West in America.  But the people know they are sinners, and are willing to listen to what God has to say from His Holy word.

With the work destroyed in Magdalena, I’ve been praying about moving.  If God does lead me to Olancho, I’d like to be closer than the six hour drive that it takes me now from where I live.  So the end of November I visited Trujillo (two hours from Olancho), and spent a week there passing out tracts and checking the place out with the possibility in mind of moving there.

Please pray the Lord would give me direction in what to do.  My desire is to preach the gospel, and plant churches, then train men like Nelson to do the same.  I moved to where I currently live in La Esperanza to be closer to the villages of Colomoncagua and Magdalena.  However, it seems those works have fallen through.  It now appears a door might be opening in Olancho or possibly Trujillo.  Please pray God would show me where he’d have me to go. 

Thanks again for all your prayers and support!

Because He loved even me,

            

Robert Breaker III

Missionary in Honduras

1 Samuel 12:24!

September - October 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

 Greetings from “The Banana Republic” of Honduras!  I arrived here safely on Tuesday, October 22nd after a short three hour flight from Miami.  Missionary Homero Romero picked me up at the airport, and in the evening I attended services with him at the home of one of his church members for their mid-week preaching and prayer service. 

The next day Homero drove me home to La Esperanza and helped me work on my Suburban that hasn’t been running since July.  We changed the distributor cap, rotor, sparkplugs, carburetor, fuel pump and more.  It still would not start!  We racked our brains trying to figure out the problem, but could come up with nothing.  Finally we checked the fusebox and found that the ignition fuse was faulty (It’s always those little foxes that spoil the vine it seems!)  We replaced it and now the truck runs fine. However with the climbing gas prices reaching close to three dollars a gallon, it looks like I’ll be taking the bus more often in an effort to save money!

Upon my arrival home in La Esperanza, I found the house and yard in a mess.  Yet with a little elbow grease, I was able to fix some leaky pipes, clean the house, mow the yard and get things in order.  Unfortunately, we are having water problems in the neighborhood where I live and water is becoming scare.  I’m having to adjust to this.  But this is life in Honduras. 

On my first Saturday here, my kids showed up for services.  I was so busy getting the house in order that I didn’t have time to visit them before then, but they saw my truck as I drove into town for supplies.  They knew I was back and to them this meant it was time to hold services again.   At two o’clock in the afternoon, sixteen youngsters arrived and showered me with flower petals and danced around me ecstatically, telling me how glad they were to see me back.  We held services and the children were very excited about some field trips we are planning to make in the next couple of weeks.

The end of October I went to Tegucigalpa and tracked down Nelson.  He has moved into another house and found a new job.  After calling his mother-in-law, I found out where he was working and went to see him.  He was happy to see me.  He told me that he has started streetpreaching since I left and is really enjoying it.  What a blessing to hear!  He is also very anxious about starting our Bible studies again and doing visitation. 

So things are starting to get back to normal here on the field.  I’m glad to be back.  Thank you all for your continued prayers and support.

Through His Blood,

Robert Breaker III

Missionary In Honduras

P.S.  Back in September, I bought a cassette tape duplicator that copies tapes in less than two minutes each.  I obtained 300 Spanish preaching and teaching tapes from a church in Mexico, and I plan to use the duplicator to make copies and give preaching tapes to the illiterate people here in Honduras.  But Cassette tapes are expensive here in Honduras (almost a dollar apiece), so if there are any old tapes you might have (60 or 90 minute), that you can spare, please send them to me at my field address below in Honduras.  I have a tape eraser and could copy over them and use them.  These would be a great help, and you’d be helping the Honduran people to get the gospel!

August 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

Greetings in the precious name above every name-the name of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ!    August has come and gone without warning, and I’ve gone through many learning experiences during this time.  Probably the greatest was, God reminded me he would never leave me nor forsake me!  How wonderful is this precious promise!  He also taught me how to offer the “sacrifice of praise” in adversity, and overcome in times of disappointment.

August was a month of travel and preparation for the ministry in Honduras.  On August 1^st, I left Honduras with missionary Homero Romero and rode for five days in his van with ten other people from his church in San Pedro Sula, to attend a Spanish Bible Conference at Iglesia Biblica Bautista de Gracia (Grace Bible Baptist Church) in Monterrey, Mexico. This is the church that brought me all the cases of New Testaments and Gospel literature last March.  They are a real blessing to my ministry! They asked me to be a speaker in their conference, and afterwards preach a week-long Youth Camp in Spanish.  This was a difficult task, but God proved to me that I am capable of preaching seven messages in Spanish in five days. Though I still lack much in the Spanish tongue, God blessed, and we had several young people make decisions to serve the Lord in various ministries in their home churches (some by working with kids, others by street preaching or working around the church).

While in Monterrey, I was given the pastor’s van to drive three hours to the United States to buy some much needed car parts for my Chevrolet Suburban which I left in Honduras.  It will not start, and hopefully upon my return, I’ll be able to fix it and put it back on the road in service for the Lord!  The church also gave me three boxes of Gospel literature, which I’m looking forward to distributing upon my return to Honduras.

After the Youth Camp was over, the church in Monterrey bought me a plane ticket to Touchet, Washington to see Miss Patience Brt.  She and I had known each other for more than a year, and had started writing each other. During our correspondence, we decided it was God’s will for us to get married and return to Honduras together.  She was to be my Patience Breaker!  When I arrived, we were to visit my parents in Wyoming, and then return to Washington.  Our plans were to marry there and then go to Florida for the honeymoon, and obtain her Passport.  Then we would fly to Honduras to serve the Lord and store up rewards in heaven working in His service. 

However, when I arrived in Washington, I received a devastating blow. Things didn’t work out as planned, and I found a wonderful young woman who was not yet ready to make a commitment.  My heart had been smitten with this Jewel, who is a true Bible Believer and holds many of the same convictions that I do.  But after three days, she revealed to me that she had no feelings for me in her heart, and would not go with me to Honduras.  Downcast, I traveled to Wyoming alone to recuperate from this tragic loss.

Although my desire of her helping me on the Mission field was crushed, I learned some valuable lessons that will help me when I get back to Honduras.  It’s not easy being a single missionary, and loneliness can discourage a man at times.  However, I’ve learned that I’m never really alone because my Saviour is always with me!  What a marvelous comforter is our Lord Jesus Christ! 

            A very wise person once said, [It was Patience’s Dad], “Discouragement is the highest form of selfishness!”  This is so true.  God showed me that even though things don’t always go the way we like, we must give thanks in everything and rejoice, for this is the only way to win the victory.  He also taught me that to overcome disappointment we must forget “those things which are behind...and press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus!” (Phil. 3:13,14).  

     I also learned more about the power of the blood of Jesus Christ.  Hebrews 9:14 helped me immensely when it states:

How much more shall the blood of Christ … purge your conscience from dead works TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD? 

Thank God for that precious blood of Jesus Christ!  It not only washes my sins away, but helps me to forget the past and continue forward in his service!  Thank you all for allowing me the privilege of serving Him who is always with me, comforts me, teaches me, and helps me through all of the mountain tops and valleys.

            Thanks for your continued prayers and support.  Please pray for me, I know nothing else to do but continue serving the Lord on the field of Honduras!  I plan to return the beginning of October, after I attend a Spanish Bible Conference in Haines City, Florida and the Blowout in my home church in Pensacola. 

            Heartbroken but not finished,

            Robert Ray Breaker III

            1 Samuel 12:24!



July 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Greetings in the precious name of our marvelous Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! July has been a very fruitful season after a small spiritual drought!  Sometimes it seems you get discouraged doing the same old thing over and over, and you wonder if all of your preaching and teaching is accomplishing much.  But in July, the Lord brought to light some things that proved Isaiah 55:11 (that God’s word will not come back void!) and helped to strengthen me here on the field.

            The work in the village of Magdalena, Intibuca, Honduras (about 30 minutes from the El Salvador border) is going well.  I have been preaching and teaching there for over three months now, and the people are anxious to start a Baptist Church.  However, I am a little leery of this, as most of the people come from a “Santidad” (Holiness) background, which teaches that works are essential to get saved or to stay saved.  I have been preaching hard against this, and stressing salvation by grace through faith.  I believe the people are starting to understand. 

On July 3^rd, I led Licandro Argueta to the Lord.  He had been coming to services, but was trusting in his own righteousness rather than Christ’s righteousness to save him.  He gladly accepted the truth after an hour bible study, and trusted solely and completely in the shed blood of Jesus Christ to save his soul, and nothing else!  After he trusted Christ, he told me that the Charismatics had been working on him.  They told him,  “Be careful of those Baptists! They are dangerous, because they teach doctrine!”  Well, thank God for the wonderful doctrine of salvation by grace through faith that still saves souls!

            A week later I received some more great news.  As I was walking into town with Elias Marquez (the leader of the group in Magdalena) I asked him when he was saved. He told me it was the first night that I preached in Magdalena.  He said that was when he first realized that salvation is by Christ, his blood, and what he did, and not what we can do to get to heaven. That night he trusted Christ as his Saviour!  Wow!  What a blessing!  He had been a “Holiness” preacher for 12 years, and for all that time he was preaching works for salvation!  But now he is preaching the Gospel of 1 Corinthians 15:1-4, and preaching it even harder because he realized that he was deceived by that cult church!

            So things are starting to pick up! The rest of the people coming to the services keep pushing me to start a Baptist Church.  They are very excited about this, and enjoy learning the Bible.  However, I have my concerns, as I don’t know for sure if they are all saved.  After some careful consideration, I decided to pull a fast one on them.  I designed a church constitution that had a doctrinal statement that ran more than ten pages.  Each paragraph contains 15-20 Bible verses.  I made it into sort of an over-sized gospel tract, if you will.  And I told them all to read it and look up every verse.   After they do, I will try to get each of their testimonies before organizing as a Baptist Church.  Please pray for them that God would open their eyes and help them to see the truth if they are not yet saved!

            Towards the end of July, I had another extra special blessing.  As you remember, I am teaching Bible to Nelson Corrales in Tegucigalpa. He was out of work for more than a month, and just recently found a job.  Care to guess where he is working?  He is now a security guard for a Catholic Church!  Well, even though Nelson didn’t like the idea of working for the “Great Whore” (his words, not mine), this didn’t stop him from serving the Lord!  Do you know what he’s doing now?  He’s putting Gospel tracts on the cars of those who come to the church for Mass!  He has been witnessing to the other guards, and even preaching to the priests!  Plus, he’s also holding Bible studies with some of the other workers there!  What a “fanatic,” huh?  Praise God for such a good convert!

Near the end of July, Nelson introduced me to a young man training to be a priest.  His name is Saul.  I talked to him for a while, and he related to me his hatred for the Roman Catholic Church.  He said, “the Catholic Church is nothing but a business that is only interested in money!”  He continued by telling me how hypocritical the priests were, and how the Catholic system was full of errors and false teachings.   To make a long story short, I led Saul to the Lord two weeks later in Nelson’s house while we were eating chicken, red beans, and rice! 

            God has been very good in the month of July!  Please continue praying for Elias Marquez and the people in Magdalena, the children’s ministry at my home on Saturdays, and Nelson “the Go-Getter” Corrales.

            Because of Christ Jesus, my blessed Saviour,

            Robert Breaker III

            1 Sam. 12:24!

May - June 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

            Greetings once again from Honduras!  Things are going well here and I am keeping very busy.  At times I wonder if I’m not too busy as my health has suffered for it.  Yet, I’m enjoying serving the Lord and being active in his service.

            On Sundays I leave from my house in La Esperanza, Intibuca very early in the morning in order to drive the three hours to the capital city of Tegucigalpa.  There I hold Bible Studies with Nelson Corrales and Zenia.  He wants to start a church in his home, but we’ve gotten off to a rocky start.  It seems that he moved into a house right next door to a Charismatic church, and most of his neighbors go there.  But, that hasn’t stopped old Nelson from preaching and passing out tracts to his neighbors.  Please pray that we may see some of them saved, as we continue to work in this area.

            On Sunday afternoons, we have started going downtown to the Central Park to pass out tracts and preach on the street.  Nelson is a real go-getter.  He keeps telling me that “I need to pass out tracts faster!”  What a blessing!  He has yet to preach on the street, but he keeps saying that he will try it one day.  Please pray that he’ll muster up the courage to do so!

            After spending the night at Nelson’s house on Sunday evening, I leave on Monday’s to head back home.  There I try to study a little bit as Tuesdays I travel to the village of Magdalena.  It is a four-hour bus trip and I have to walk an hour into town in order to make my bus.

            On Tuesday and Wednesday nights I am teaching Bible to the group of about 20 faithful people who gather there in Magdalena.  We have found a bigger building now as we are renting the Municipal Warehouse to meet in.  We are also in the process of organizing into a local church!  I’ve even started teaching English on Wednesday afternoon in the hope that this will bring more people to the services.

            Just before midnight on Wednesday night, the bus leaves for La Esperanza.  It arrives there a little after four in the morning, and after the hour walk home, I try to rest a little bit from my journey.  I usually spend Friday studying and preparing for my teaching classes, or running errands in town to buy groceries or other things.  Then on Saturday at two in the afternoon, I have a children’s ministry going on here at the house!  So as you can see, I’ve been keeping myself very busy here in Honduras!

            Also in June, I had the privilege of baptizing Nelson and Zenia in the little village of Guanko, Olancho, Honduras.  I preached to over 50 people there the night before, and the next morning we had over 60 people show up at the baptism service there on the banks of the river.  I preached a message to them again, and then baptized Nelson and Zenia in front of Nelson’s family, friends, and neighbors.  What a testimony it was to those of Nelson’s village that they too need to come to the Jesus Christ by faith in his death, burial, resurrection, and precious shed blood!

            The very last day of June my car broke down on the way to teach Bible to Nelson.  I lost three days in the process of trying to find a mechanic to get it fixed.  However, it turned out to be a blessing as I was able to lead a young man named Luis to the Lord!

            Also, I would like to thank the KING JAMES BIBLE SOCIETY for sending me 200 Spanish Bibles to give away here in Honduras, which I received the beginning of May.  Also, thanks to the Bible Believer’s Baptist Church Tract Ministry in N. Canton, Ohio for sending me over 6000 gospel tracts as well.  And a special thanks to you all for your continued prayer and support!

            Please remember the following in your prayers:

Nelson to find work (as he was recently laid off).

Lacho (Nelson’s brother) to be saved.

                                                                       

            In His Service,

            Robert Breaker III

            1 Sam. 12:24!

           

March - April 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

            “Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ!” (1 Cor. 1:3).                   

            I hope this letter finds you all walking in sweet fellowship with God and giving thanks to him always for his oh so abundant mercies and blessings.  He is so good, even when we are not.  And, how can you help but praise him?

            In my last prayerletter, I told you all about some bad news and how that the people of the village of Colomoncauga had rejected the gospel.  As a result, I was heartbroken, discouraged, and walked for a time in the slough of despond, not knowing what to do or where to go with the gospel.  But God picked me up and set me back on my feet, and gave me a whole lot more to do than I could have ever imagined.  Though the door closed shut on Colomoncagua, God opened another in its place.  In fact he opened three of them!

            After leaving Colomoncagua, I prayed and asked God what to do.  Through much prayer, and Bible reading, and the advice of several other missionaries here, I decided to visit my neighbors and invite them to services here in my house.  I visited just about everyone that lives within a mile radius of me, and was able to put a Bible in each house (about 30).  Then I invited them over on Sunday for services.  The first Sunday I had 41 people showed up!  Then the next Sunday there were 42 that came, and two who accepted Jesus Christ as their Saviour after I preached on, “You must be born again!” 

            Well, the next Sunday only children came.  I visited everyone again, but the adults just didn’t seem interested.  Every Sunday since then, I’ve had nothing but children show up at my house.  Every week I’d have anywhere from 13 to 20 young kids.  We play soccer for about 30 minutes beforehand, and then I teach them the Bible.  Right now we are studying the “7 Types of Christ in the book of Genesis.”  Although I’d hoped to reach the adults, and teach them Bible, it looks like now I’ve got a good, steady children’s ministry going.  Hopefully through time, the children will reach their parents, and they will come again.

            On Thursdays, I’ve been traveling to Tegucigalpa (three hours away) every week to teach Bible to Nelson Corrales (whom I led to the Lord back in November).  He is really growing in the Lord and is passing out tracts like a mad man!  He has even at times gone into the Catholic church here to give tracts to the people there as well as the priests!  When I asked him why he did that, he said, “Because they are deceived and need the gospel!”  Amen!  He’s exactly right.  This young man has got a lot of zeal.  Not only that, he has a whole lot of faith!

            Every time I’d travel to Tegucigalpa to teach him Bible, he would ask me, “When are you going to start a church here in my house?”  I told him that we needed some people to do that, and a bigger place, as his house was nothing but a one room shack.  But, he still wanted me to start a work there.  I told him to pray about it, and we’d see what would happen.  Well one day I showed up at his work to visit him, and he informed me that he’d been visiting his neighbors, and there were over 15 people that wanted to come to his house if we began holding services there.  “But your house is still too small,” I told him.  He replied, “That’s okay, I rented a bigger house to live in, so that we can start a church there!”  Glory!  So I’ve changed our weekly Thursday night Bible studies in his house to an all day Sunday service.  And, I’ve shuffled Sunday services with the kids at my house to Saturday.  Please pray for these two ministries in the making.

            One afternoon while I was at my house, an interesting thing happened.  Pastor Ramon Galeano, one of the Baptist Pastors here in town, came by and visited me.  He told me that a man came and visited him from a town called Magdalena (it’s farther down the road than Colomoncagua, and closer to the El Salvador border).  The Pastor told me that this man had a group of about 30 people in that town who have been meeting every week to read the Bible and pray.  They have decided that they want to become a Baptist Church, and are looking for someone to help them do that.  Pastor Ramon told me that he was too busy with starting a work in Siguatepeque (an hour away), but he suggested that I go there and see if I can help them. 

            That is exactly what I did, as I took the bus to Magdalena.  When I got on the bus, I asked anyone if they new “Elias Marquez” (the man who visited Ramon and asked for help).  They knew exactly who he was and said that he was going to be coming on the bus the same day.  Sure enough, he boarded the bus, and the people pointed him out to me.  We sat next to each other and talked the whole four and a half hour bus trip.  And he told me about how they’d been meeting for over a year and praying that God would send them someone to teach them the Bible and help them to start a work there in the little village of Magdalena.

            “That is exactly why I’m here!”  I told him.  “It’s my desire to start churches and teach the Bible!”  He was very happy about that, and that evening we held services.   I preached on, “What is a Christian?”  The four points were someone who is: 1. Saved, 2. Sanctified, 3. Separated (from the world), 4. and Soon to leave at the Rapture.  The people enjoyed it, and asked me to come back every Tuesday and teach the Bible to them.  They told me, “We want to learn doctrine!”   So every Tuesday (and any other day that I’m free) I’m traveling to Madgalena to teach these folks doctrine, and help them to organize a local Independent Baptist Church.  What a blessing!

           

            Not only is God opening doors for me here, but he’s supplying me with Bibles and tracts as well.  Toward the end of March, Pastor Raul Reyes from Iglesia Bautista Biblica de Gracia (Grace Bible Baptist Church) in Monterrey, Mexico and Missionary William Park and and his family came down to visit me.  They smuggled Bibles across the Guatemalan border to bring down and distribute to churches in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.  I had a wonderful time with them, and was even able to go to Nicaragua with Pastor Raul and another brother named Homero Romero to take a church there a case of Bibles and tracts. 

            Bro. Park stayed with me for a little more than a week, and helped me do some visitation in my neighborhood.  Before they went back to Mexico, they left me with 5 boxes of Booklet tracts entitled, “Como Puedo Yo Tener Vida Eterna?” (How can I have Eternal Life), Three boxes of regular tracts, and 14 boxes of Spanish New Testaments!  I was overjoyed when they gave me this material, and have been keeping myself busy trying to put this material in the hands of the Honduran people.

            So God is taking care of me here.  He is directing my path, and giving me plenty to do.  Thanks again for your prayers, as I’m convinced that those are not only what help to sustain me here, but are what keep the doors opening as well.

            Thanks again for you continued support.  Every little bit helps! (Especially when there is more and more to be done!)

Because He shed His precious blood for a Sinner like me,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

January - February 2002

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

                Greetings once again in the name of our Glorious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!  I hope this letter finds all of you “looking for that blessed hope” in this new year that the Lord has given us.  As well as occupying till he comes.  We are the much more closer to the coming of our Great God and King Jesus Christ.  And, the sooner he comes the better!  But, until he does what a privelege and an honor it is to be able to tell others about him and what he’s done for us on that old rugged cross!

            Much has happened here in Honduras the last two months that I must tell you about.  God has shown me many things, as well as made me become even more dependent upon him.   Because of circumstances here, I’ve been seeking his will about where to go in this country with the gospel, and thank God, he has shown me some things from his word (the only comfort I’ve got) that will help me in the ministry here.  Let me explain.

            In my December 2001 prayerletter, I said that I’d keep on preaching in Colomoncagua until the Lord showed me otherwise.  Well I believe he has.  In January I met with the man who asked me to come to that village back in August of 2000.  His name was Jose Oscar Vijil Ramos.  I visited him first thing upon my arrival here in August of last year, but he told me to wait until after the elections to talk with him as he was running for Mayor of the village and was very busy with “Politics.”  So, I did the only thing I knew to do until then, which was preach on the streets there, visit house to house, and pass out tracts, as I tried to keep my 20/20 vision (Acts 20:20). 

            After the elections I drove to his house on the long, winding, mountainous, dirt roads to talk with him and find out what he wanted to do. There he told me that he had lost the election by only 12 votes.  And, after talking with him some more, he asked me to start a church in his house.  I was a bit leary, as he was attending his brothers Pentecostal church, but I agreed to return the next week to hold services if he was serious.  Well, upon my arrival the next week, I found that he was not serious in the least.  And, he spent the next hour or so begging me for money, and help to go to the United States in order to work and make money.  I soon discerned that his God was mammon ($mullah$) rather than Jesus Christ.  So, unfortunately, that proved to be an unopen door, as he said starting a church in his home would be “too much responsibility” for him. 

            Also, several other factors as well made me wonder if God wanted me to continue in that village.  One was that the young men I have been teaching the Bible to there have lost interest.  And, the one who was the most interested (named Raphael) told me one evening that, though he does enjoy learning the Bible, he plans on continuing to go to his “Misionera” (Pentecostal) church always.  So, what hope I had of starting a work there began to crumble before my eyes.

            Not knowing what else to do, I turned to God’s word for guidance.  And after much prayer and Bible reading, The Lord gave me the following verse in Luke 4:43:  “And he said unto them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also: for therefore am I sent.” 

            I also began reading the book of Acts in my daily Bible reading and found that when Paul received his Macedonian Call (what I thought Jose Oscar Vijil Ramos’ invitation was), after going there, he had but a few converts, and ended up afterwards going to another area.  So, after praying and fasting, I believe God has shown me that it’s his will that I start taking the gospel to the regions beyond as well (2 Cor. 10:16).           

            I still plan on continuing to visit Colomoncagua whenever I can, as Paul passed through Macedonia again several times (Acts 19:21, 20:1, 3). But I also plan on visiting the surrounding towns as well to take the light of the glorious gospel to them also.  The people of Colomoncagua might have rejected the gospel, but there are plenty more in Honduras that need to hear it.  Plus, where I live in La Esperanza, there is no good Bible Believing work.  So I am praying about starting a church in this area if the Lord allows. 

            After visiting my neigbors here, several have said that they would like to come to the services if a church is started.  So, we will see if that door opens up.  Please keep this in your prayers.

            In February, I journeyed to Tegucigalpa to teach Bible to young Nelson Carrales (He is the one I lead to the Lord back in November).  While there, he asked me to go to the department (or state) of Olancho here in Honduras where his parents live to preach to them, and give them the gospel of Jesus Christ.  He told me that the reason was that he “didn’t want to see them go to Hell!”  So, he asked me if I would accompany him there for a week, and witness to them, and I gladly accepted.

            On February 15th, Nelson, his family, and I left Tegucigalpa and drove to Olancho (the most dangerous part of Honduras).  On the way we stopped in the town of Juticalpa, and I preached on the street corner there in the central park area.  This was the first time that Nelson had seen streetpreaching, and he ate it up!  From Juticalpa we travelled to Guanko (the town where Nelson grew up), and for the next week I was able to get out several hundred tracts, preach 4 different times in three different villages, and along with witnessing to Nelson’s family, we had the privilege of personally passing out over 50 Bibles. 

            Not only did we have a great time spiritually, but physically as well as we were able to go fishing, hunting for iguanas (which we didn’t get any), horseback riding, and hiking.  What a wonderful opportunity it was, and I thank God for it.  When we left, three different families gave me several bags full of red beans (which they had grown), and told me they would be quite angry if I didn’t return to preach to them again.  So, hopefully I’ll be able to do so.

            Please remember the following people in your prayers who trusted Jesus Christ as their personal Saviour this last month through my personal witnessing:  Carlos Alvarado, 33, and a young 15 year old boy named Israel.

            Thanks again for your prayers and support!  And remember that if you are ever in Honduras, you have a place to stay!

           

Because He shed His precious blood for a sinner like me,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Your Missionary to Honduras