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
