December 2005

Dear Fellow Labourers and Prayer Warriors,

            I’m sending out my December Prayer letter early to keep you abreast of what’s going on here in Honduras, as well as trying to get it to you before the beginning of the new year.

            On the 3rd, we started our Youth Meetings again.  Every Saturday at five o’clock the young people (ages 12 and up) come for a time of teaching, games, and refreshments.  I’m teaching on the “Seven Mysteries in the Bible,” one each week.  The kids also compete against each other by gaining points for memorizing scripture, bringing their Bibles, doing their homework, memorizing the Old and New Testament books, inviting visitors and more.  They are really enjoying it, and it’s been a blessing to us in seeing them put forth the effort to memorize their verses.

            The 12th through the 14th we took a “road trip” to the small village of Pidaera.  National Missionary Erick Sanchez invited me there to teach to his converts the history and heresy of the Catholic Church.  Most of those saved came out of that false religion and were receiving persecution from it (as almost the entire community there is Catholic).

            We drove in my Toyota two hours and then met with pastor Florentino Aguilar, who was waiting for us beside the road with mules.  After parking my truck in a secure location, we then loaded up and journeyed four hours over the mountains!  We also took many bags of food and clothing to help the brethren in Pidaera.

            The area is very poor, hot, and dusty.  The people live so far out in the mountains that they don’t have electricity.  They even told me that most of them haven’t seen a “gringo” before.  (They said we were the first white people to ride their mules too!)

            From eight-thirty in the morning till four in the afternoon, I showed them verses and read them stories and quotes proving that the Catholic Church offers no salvation, and is nothing but a “business” not interested in souls, but rather in money, power, and control.

           

            When I finished, many of the brethren stood up and thanked me for coming.  One was the pastor’s father, an 87 year-old man who said, “I’ve only recently gotten saved.  Before this no one ever came to tell us the truth.  Once a Catholic priest came years ago and read a few verses, but he wouldn’t let us see, touch, or read his Bible.  Thank you so much for coming and telling us the truth!”   This really moved me.

            The 15th, I took a video projector and a small generator and showed a “Christian Film” in the mountains of Quebrada de Lajas where I’m working.  We had over 50 people show up.

            Thus, December has been an interesting, moving, and fun month.  I’m also receiving many visitors at my house who come to ask me Bible questions.  Usually, they are Christians who ask me to show them where the Catholic Church is in error according to the Bible.

           

            Thanks again for all your prayers, support, cards, letters, packages, etc.  You’ve been very good to me, and I want you to know I appreciate all of you!

           

            Because of our Great God and Saviour Jesus Christ,

  

            Robert R. Breaker III

            1 Samuel 12:24!

Loading the Mules

Missionary Cowboy

Teaching the Bible

Jumping on My Mule

My Wife on the Trail

The Church In Pidaera, Lempira, Honduras

 

November 2005

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

            November has been a very exciting month full of activities and service.  Sometimes I feel I’m doing too much as I find myself always exhausted.  But it’s worth it as we’re seeing God work in a mighty way here in Honduras.

            The 5th, we had our last Bible Institute class of the year.  I taught on the Life of Christ and Bibliology.    My students did well on their final exams and were very thankful for what they learned.

            We had an outside cookout for the young people of the church the same day and ate hot dogs and marshmallows.  They really enjoyed it!

            The 12th, we had a church wedding.  Leonidas and Silveria, who have already five children, desired to be wed for a good Christian testimony, after almost a year of being saved.  Missionary Mike Lane married them and most of our church members were in attendance. 

            The next day we had a baptism.  The newlyweds were among those baptized.  I brought some from Quebrada de Lajas where I’m working and in total we baptized fourteen people! 

            Missionary Mike Lane left on forlough for the United States the following day, and left me in charge of the work, as well as the building project.  We have the walls up, the rafters, and the concrete floor in our new chapel.  All we lack is connecting the lights and water, putting on a roof, installing the doors, windows, and gates, and putting down a ceramic floor.  Please pray for this endeavor.

            My wife has to leave Honduras every three months, as she doesn’t have her official residence here yet.  So, on the 25th we journeyed to Guatemala and stayed a few days and passed out tracts.  We also visited several tourist spots, including the ancient Mayan Indian Ruins of Tikal and the Spanish Castle of San Felipe.  We had a great time, and enjoyed a good “mini-vacation.”   

            Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support.  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I thank God for you all and for all your giving to help the ministry here in Honduras!

            Because of Christ Jesus our Most Blessed Lord and Saviour,

            Robert R. Breaker III

            1 Samuel 12:24!

Leonidas and Silveria Just Wed

Baptizing my convert Carolee Sanchez

Mike Baptizing a lad I led to the Lord named Christian

Mike Baptizing Leonidas and Silveria

Baptizing  my convert Laura Hernandez

 Baptizing my convert Sinaida Hernadez

Baptizing My Convert Leonel

September - October 2005

Dear Blood bought flock of God,

            September and October have been by far the most fruitful months of my ministry here in Honduras.  I find myself full of joy in reporting to you all the great and marvelous things that God is doing in Honduras!

            Many years ago Missionary Santos Ortiz told me he entered a church and the Pastor presented him to the congregation with these words: “He will come and tell you what he’s doing for the Lord.”  Bro. Ortiz approached the pulpit and replied, “Thank you Pastor, but I’ve not come to brag upon myself, only to tell you what God’s doing with someone like me!”  Amen and amen!

            So too, it is my desire to declare what God’s doing here in Honduras with a nobody like me!  God will save anyone and then God can and will use anybody.  All that’s needed is a willing heart and a desire to please Him.  Too many “Jehus” exist nowadays who only wish to exalt themselves and what they are doing in their “zeal for the Lord.”  Thus, I pray this letter might be a refreshing change from Missionaries who desire only to applaud themselves and their works.  For it’s my desire to glorify the blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and brag on Him and His life changing power!

SOULS SAVED!!!

            Sometimes you have to go fishing to catch fish.  But occasionally, while you’re out on the lake, a fish will jump into the boat.  This is rare, but with God anything is possible!

            On October fourteenth, Catalino Hernandez, 23 and Domingo Meza, 42 “jumped into the boat.”  They came to my house and asked how to be saved.  I’ve been praying for and preaching to Catalino for some time, but his vice of alcohol kept him from getting saved.  However, he finally became fed up with his sin and decided it was time to leave the old life behind and start a new one — an eternal life.   His exact words were, “I’m tired of serving the Devil and knowing I’m going to Hell.  I’m ready to get saved and serve God!”  Right there at my kitchen table both men trusted the precious sin cleansing blood of Jesus Christ to save their souls!

            I offered to drive them home after, and on the way Catalino asked me to visit his girlfriend, Michell Gomez, 26, and give her the Gospel as well.  He was so happy to be saved, that he wanted to see others born again also!  After giving her the Gospel, she bowed her head and trusted the blood of Jesus Christ to save her.  I was ecstatic!   Three people saved in one day!

            The next day a young lad named Leonel Alberto Tosta Velasquez, age 9, came to our house. He’d been visiting services in my home and had some questions.  After inviting him to stay for lunch, and giving him the Gospel, he too decided to trust Jesus Christ as his Saviour! 

            We’ve been holding Youth Meetings each Saturday Night in my garage for young people ages twelve to twenty-five.  Each week we preach on one of the prophets.  We encourage the kids to bring visitors, and usually they do.  God blessed on the night of Oct. 12th, when two trusted Christ Jesus as their Saviour.  I personally dealt with Christian David Chavez Reyes, 12, while Missionary Mike Lane’s wife won a young lady named Nancy.

            Also, on Saturday October 22nd, Wendy Patricia Aguilar Alvarado, 14, trusted the Lord as her Saviour after I took her through the scriptures! 

            Not only did God bless by letting us see some souls saved, but he also blessed with allowing me to perform some baptisms.  On October 26th, my wife and I, with Native Missionary Erick Sanchez, journeyed five hours away to the city of Pidaera in the department of Lempira, Honduras.  Far off in the distance we could see two volcanoes in the country of El Salvador.  In the small aldea (suburb) of El Carrizal we performed a baptism service.  In all, four were baptized by Erick Sanchez and myself. One was an eighty-one-year-old Indian woman!

            Apart from the soulwinning and baptizing, God’s also used us to get out many boxes of New Testaments and tracts to other Missionaries and Local Pastors here.  I’ve also had many open doors to preach in different areas!

           

            Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support.  God bless you all!

            Because He loved me enough to die for me,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary in Honduras

            1 Samuel 12:24! 

Raising Him Up Out of the Water!

 Erick Sanchez and I baptizing

The Eighty-One-Year-Old Lady

My Wife and I on a Mountain in

Lempira, Honduras

Lenca Indian Woman

  

...Great and marvellous are they works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

                                                                                                            -  Revelation 15:3

July - August 2005

Dear Brethren,

I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me. 

-  Psalm 69:2

            Well, maybe it’s not quite that bad, but there is a lot of rain here in Honduras and there is so much mud, that it’s hard to find a dry place to step.  This makes travel hard in the muddy conditions.  It also hinders one’s health, as mosquitoes breed like rabbits!  But in spite of  “Noah’s second flood,” we’ve looked towards the rainbow on the other side and God has blessed us with some fruit.

            Bible Institute started up again August Sixth.  I’m teaching two classes:  Life of Christ and Bibliology. 

            We saw several folks saved these last two months, as I personally led the following to the Lord in July:  Jose Dionisio Lopez, age 23, Heber Adalid Amaya, age 10, and Angelica Marlen Gomez, age 6.  In August, I had the privilege of leading Emanuel de Jesus Gutierrez, age 21, to Christ Jesus after service in our little building in Quebrada de Lajas!

            On the 17th of August, Missionary Bill Kepler and his wife Kathy went with my wife and I to the community of San Miguel el Archangel (a small subdivision built for those who suffered losses during Hurricane Mitch), about ten miles outside of the capital city of Tegucigalpa.  I was invited there by Mr. Nicanor Orellano, the President of the town, who asked me to preach and pass out Gospel Literature.  Nicky (as I call him), is an unsaved man who butchers pigs for a living.  He didn’t get saved, but his two daughters did when Kathy Kepler led them to the Lord!

            The rest of the day we spent visiting and passing out tracts.  By the end of the day, we’d gotten out over 370 New Testaments (One per house).  In the evening I stood on top of Nicky’s pig butchering table and preached a Gospel message to over forty people who came out to listen.  It was a lot of fun!

            My wife is settling in well here in Honduras.          She is even learning some Spanish.  One word she uses continually is “Macanudo,” which means “cool” here.  We are trying to obtain her Residence Visa, but this is taking a long time.  Every two months we’ve got to leave Honduras in order to have her passport restamped.  This is getting a little expensive, as gas has gone up to over three dollars and fifty cents per gallon.  But it does give us an excuse to travel and get out tracts.  Before we went to Mexico, and the end of August we traveled to Guatemala.

            Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support!

            Because He paid it all on Calvary’s tree,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary in Honduras

            1 Samuel 12:24! 

May - June 2005

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

            Greetings from rainy Honduras!  It’s been very wet here as the rainy season glooms upon us.  Our yard is like a swamp, and we’ve had to call off church service several times because the roads are just too muddy!  (When your 4x4 truck gets stuck, then one should not be driving!)

            My wife and I arrived here in Honduras the 9th of May after enjoying our Honeymoon in Miami Beach, Florida.  We returned home to find that our water pump burned out and we were without water for over a month.  We learned to take “bird baths” (bathing in a bucket of water), which weren’t too fun.

            We eventually found a new pump and pressure tank combo in Mexico for cheap (about 300 dollars) when we drove there with Missionary Homero Romero to pick us some Gospel literature in Spanish.  We met Bro. William Park in the mountain town of San Cristobal de Las Casas in the department of Chiapas.  He gave us many boxes of New Testament’s, John and Romans, and booklet tracts.  Both Homero and I filled our Suburbans with as much as we could carry.

            While in San Cristobal, I had the opportunity to preach for Bro. Carlos and Octavio Ruiz, brothers, who have been working in the area for about eight years planting a church.  My message was on the beautiful type of Eleazer searching for a bride for Isaac, and how that corresponds to the Holy Spirit looking for a bride for Christ.

            June 13th marked a momentous occasion, as we finally were able to install our new water pump.  Both my wife and I were very happy to be able to shower for a change in our own house.  (Bird baths are for the birds!)

            Bible Institute ended on the 25th of June.  We had about fifteen students begin the semester, but only four finished.  We plan to start again in August.  Please pray that the students would be faithful.

            The work in Quebrada de Lajas is moving forward.  We have a lot of children and teenagers attending, but it’s hard to get the adults to come.  I’ve been teaching through Genesis and showing them the types of Christ in the Bible.  They are really enjoying it.  Please pray that their parents would get saved and come also.

            Bro. Mike Lane (the other Independent Missionary here that I’m working with) has started construction on a Church Chapel close by for the “New Hope Baptist Church.”  We are still meeting in my home, but once the building is completed, we’ll meet there.  Please pray about Quebrada de Lajas, and if I should build there (we are now currently renting a building).  There are several options, and several places where property is cheap.  A nice spot is only 2000 dollars for a large tract of land (about three acres in size).

            Thus, May and June have been interesting and fun months (except for the lack of water).  My wife and I have been sick off and on, trying to get used to the germs in Honduras, but we’re faring well.  We’ve also had a great time traveling and distributing New Testaments to others.  We also received a shipment of 5000 Chick tracts, which we are now stamping with my address and look forward to getting out.

            Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support!

            Because of Him who loved us enough to die for us,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary in Honduras

            1 Samuel 12:24!

March - April 2005

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus our Lord,

            Greetings once again!  I hope you are walking in the joy and admiration of Him who loved you enough to die for you.  The Lord has richly blessed these past two months.

            On March 6th, Luisa Lopez trusted the Lord Jesus Christ for eternal life in church service at my house.

           

            A week later I journeyed with some men from our little church in Quebrada de Lajas to visit Congolon, Honduras.  It was there that the famous Indian Chief Lempira died fighting the Spanish Catholic Conquistadors who were trying to put his people in bondage.  We passed out tracts there and in the towns of Erandique and Gracias.

            Our Bible Institute started again on March 12th.  This time we are meeting at my house.  There are 14 students.  I am teaching two classes: Evangelism and Preacher and His Problems.

            On March 14th, I led a 53 year old man to the Lord named Gamilo Gomez Garcia at the local jail in La Esperanza.  A Medical Brigade came from the states, and I worked with them for two days translating for the doctors.  While checking everyone’s vision, I won Mr. Gomez to the Lord, helping him to see — both physically and spiritually!

            Easter Sunday I brought the two churches I’m working with together at my house.  We ate dinner on the grounds after the preaching, and the people were very excited.

            March 28th, Missionary Robert Baker and I witnessed to twenty two year old Bessy Zelaya.  She attended a Baptist Church for many years but never trusted Christ Jesus as her Saviour.  (There are many people like that).  After a half hour, I led her to the saving knowledge of the truth through her faith in the precious blood. 

            On April 10th, I married the most wonderful young lady in the whole world — Laura Beth Flood.  Brother Buddy Maynard (from the Heritage Boys Home) performed the ceremony at the Lighthouse Baptist Church in Panama City, Florida.  After the “I do’s,” he handcuffed us.  We laughed because the word for spouses in Spanish is the same word for handcuffs. 

            March and April were very fruitful months with souls saved.  And God finally answered all of your prayers by blessing me with a real jewel of a wife!  Please pray for us as we are currently selling most of our stuff on Ebay before returning to Honduras the beginning of May.   Missionary Mike Lane is preaching for me while I’m away.  Please pray for him also.    

            As always, thanks again for your continued prayers and support!

           

            Because He paid it all on Calvary’s tree,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary to Honduras

            1 Samuel 12:24! 

Mr. And Mrs. Robert Breaker

Handcuffed for Life!

February 2005

Dear Fellow Prayer Warriors,

  

            Greetings in that blessed name above every other name — the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ! 

            The Lord blessed in February, and I am excited to report all the wonderful things that occurred in this short, fruitful month. 

            The sixth, we started officially as a church in Quebrada de Lajas under the name of Iglesia Biblica Bautista (Bible Baptist Church) with eleven members!  What a blessing! 

            Another Missionary here is conducting services in my house, and I’m helping him.  We officially started here also under the name of Iglesia Bautista Nueva Esperanza (New Hope Baptist Church).  Please pray for these works that God would strengthen them and we would see them continue to grow.

            I won several people to the Lord this month.  On the sixth, I led Hector Leonidas Vasquez through the scriptures after church service at my house, and he trusted in the shed blood for eternal life! 

            The 20th, I led Ms. Liksa Sanchez to the Lord after our meeting in Quebrada de Lajas.  And finally on the 27th, I won Miguel Angel Vasquez and Adam Roberto Dominguez to Christ after our evening service at my house.

            As always, thanks again for all your continued prayers and support!  February has been a productive month, and it’s been a huge blessing to see two works officially started as Churches, but most importantly, to see Hondurans saved.

            My prayer is that God will continue to bless you as you serve Him!            

            Because He died for you and me,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary in Honduras

           

January 2005

Dear Fellowlabourers in the work of the Lord,

            I arrived home to Honduras on the third of this month after nearly a month’s furlough in the United States.  My time there was well spent, and I was blessed to see some new churches take me on for support! 

            Upon my arrival here, Missionary Mike Lane picked me up at the airport, and told me that the Baptist Camp behind my house was taken from him, and that we couldn’t have services there anymore.  Thus, we’ve moved our meetings to my house on Wednesday and Sunday night until he can build a chapel up the road on some property he’s bought there.  Soon, we are planning to start a Sunday morning service, of which I’ll be teaching.

            The first week of this month was hectic.  I invited Dr. Kent Hovind from Creation Science Evangelism, based in Pensacola, Florida, to come and present his seminars about “Dinosaurs,”  “Creation,”  “The Age of the Earth,” and “The Dangers of Evolution.”  Myself and at least three other men have been working on translating his slides into Spanish.  This is tedious work, and I’ve spent more than a few 13 hour days on them.  Our desire was to tape his presentation with someone translating into Spanish so the Latino world would have access to his valuable information about God’s Creation.  And praise be to God, we were able to do just that!

           

            Dr. Hovind came the 16th-19th, and we were very fortunate to find some great cameras and camera men, two superb translators, and a hospitable Baptist church in the city of San Pedro Sula which helped with the recording.   These Spanish versions of his seminars will be edited and ready for sale tentatively around June or July of this year.  I look forward to seeing how they turned out, as well as getting them into the hands of Spanish speaking people in both VHS and DVD format.

            Bro. Allen Johnson, Spanish Department Director of Landmark Baptist Church in Haines City, Florida, was one of the translators at the Seminar.  He did a great job, and I am certain we couldn’t have done it without him.  After the conference, I brought him home with me to La Esperanza and had him preach on the 20th at our Thursday night service in Quebrada de Lajas.  He preached a powerful message, and a young lady named Laura Hernadez walked the aisle and came down to get saved.  I had the privilege of leading her to the Lord shortly thereafter.  What a blessing!

            So ends the first month of the new year.  God has blessed last year exceeding abundantly above and beyond what I could have thought or asked for!  And what a blessing to see this month start off with a bang with one saved, some new churches supporting me, Hovind’s material in Spanish, and the starting of a Sunday morning service in my house. 

             Thanks again for all your continued prayers and support!                      

            Because He shed His blood to atone for our sins,

            Robert Breaker III

            Missionary in Honduras

            1 Sam. 12:24!