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

December 2001

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

               

Hello once again, and greetings from Honduras!  Let me start this letter by saying a hearty “Thank you!” to all of you that are supporting me sacrificially there as I know it gets harder and harder the longer this war drags on in the Middle East.  My prayer is that not only will it end soon, but those in it, and our country as well, will come to the saving knowledge of the truth that only is found in Jesus Christ our Lord and his precious word.

            Things here in Honduras are going fairly well.  But this country is about to undergo a gigantic change in the coming new year, as the Hondurans elected a new President last month named Ricardo Maduro.  He was the popular choice, but he also is the man that many years ago made the Honduran Lempira (form of currency) to drop.  And, there is a fear that as President that he might do it again, thus making Honduras an even poorer country.  Please pray for this as the poorer the country becomes, the higher the crime rate climbs. 

            The month of December has been a busy month as I’ve continually been working in the village of Colomoncagua every weekend.  I wish I could say that a good work has been established there, but the truth is that things are going very slowly.  It’s been my goal to get a Bible into every house in that village, and so far, I have visited just about every one in the last four months and have been able to put a bible in over 60 homes.  I’ve also had an opportunity while on visitation to preach to just about everyone there on my weekly visits and put a gospel tract in every house.  But, so many are blinded to the truth.  The people are very appreciative to recieve a Bible, but many people are either Catholic (and hung up on works for salvation), apathetic (and don’t believe in anything), or just plain drunks, that don’t listen well to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It’s hard to reach these people, but by the grace of God I’m going to keep on trying and ministering there until God tells me otherwise.  It’s not a glorious field, but I firmly believe that’s where God has called me, and if I don’t take them the gospel, who will?

            One weekend while on visitation, I spoke to the Catholic priest there and asked him this question, “When you die, where will your soul go?”  He put his hand up, and said, “That question is ludicrous!  No one can know that until they die!”  Well, I showed him otherwise in the bible, and he told me that “what I was teaching was dangerous, and only designed to make people think!”  “Exactly!” I told him, but he asked me to leave rather than listen to anymore of God’s word.  So, I’ll just keep on preaching the book, the blood, and the blessed hope no matter how “dangerous” it may be in the eyes of others.  I’ve a message to tell this nation, and it’s good enough for anybody, and not only can it give them eternal life, but a changed life as well.

            Despite being rejected by most of the people in Colomoncagua, God did bless with a few souls in December.  Elmer Trejo, age 32, trusted Christ Jesus as his Saviour one Saturday afternoon.  

            In Tegucigalpa, I saw more fruit than in Colomoncagua.  The end of November, I led the guard at the gas station where I park my car to the Lord.  His name is Nelson Corrales, and I mean he got it!  After he got saved, the first thing he did was go to church. And, everytime I see him, he’s always reading his Bible.  One evening I offered to drive him home and asked him if I could meet his family.  He readily invited me into his house, and there I was able to lead his neighbor (15 year old Concepcion Molina) to the Lord Jesus Christ on December 5th, 2001.  If that wasn’t blessing enough, two weeks later I was able to lead his “women” Zenia Gutierrez to the Lord as well! (They live together and are not married as of yet, but I’m working on them to show them their need to do so). 

            The end of December God blessed me with a four bedroom and 3 bathroom house in the city of La Esperanza in the department of Intibuca.  After finishing Language School, I moved to La Esperanza in order to be closer to Colomoncagua.  (Those 6 hour drives every weekend were killing me).  And, after looking for a place to live, a pastor here told me about an adobe house that a missionary had built back in the early eighties.  It’s old, run down, and dirty.  But, the price was right.  The missionary now is working in Siguatepeque (an hour away) and wants to fix the place up as no one has lived there for about 8 years.  He told me I can begin working on it, and take whatever I do out of the rent.  So, after I fix it up, I’ll have a place for people visiting from the states to stay!  The only problem is that it doesn’t have a phone line.  But, I do check my email every week or so if you need to contact me.

            Well, that’s about it.  I look forward to working more in Colomoncagua and seeing what the new year brings.  Please remember me in your prayers, as you are in mine.

                       

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

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras



November 2001

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

           

            Greetings in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ from tropical Honduras?  This time of year, the weather is very strange.  One day it can be bright and sunny and warm.  The next day, it’s freezing cold outside!  I had to go and buy some heavy blankets to sleep under in the evening.  Plus, I had to go and buy a heavy jacket for when I go up into the mountains, as it’s getting pretty chili up there.  Because of the drastic weather changes, many people have been sick (myself included).  They say it’s like this until about March, when it warms up and stays warm.  So, I’m looking forward to this, as I don’t like the cold!

            The month of November has been a tedious one, as this is the time for their annual presidencial elections.  Most people are so interested in their political party and their canidate, that it’s hard to reach them with the gospel.  Politics is very big thing here.  But, thank God, I was able to see some fruit this month.

            While I was doing visitation in Colomoncagua, I had four young men make professions of faith.   Two of them were in the very end of October and their names were Mario Salazar, 21, and Josue Alexander Hernadez, 14.  And, in the beginning of November, Ever Adolfo Ramos, 15, and his brother Hugo Fernando Ramos, 23 trusted Christ as their Saviour.  I am currently holding Bible studies with Mario and Hugo every Saturday night.  Also, I am still teaching the Bible to another young man named Raphael who wants to be a preacher someday.

            I’ve also been getting out many Bibles in the village of Colomoncagua.  My desire is to get one bible in every home there.  Every Saturday I do visitation.  And, so far I’ve visited about half of the homes in that village, and was able to get out about 50 Bibles.  Everybody there wants one, but I can’t give one to everyone as I don’t have enough.  So, I’m trying to get one in every house.  Then on Sunday, I preach on the street in the middle of the town square to the hundreds of people that come down from the mountains to buy, sell, and trade goods on this day.  After preaching, I usually have several people come and ask me questions about the Bible, and I’m able to witness to them one on one.  This to me is a real blessing.

            My Spanish language study is going well, but I have so much more I need to learn.  My teacher says I now know more Spanish than most Hondurans as many of them are “unlearned” of how to speak the true spanish.  This is because many didn’t go to school.  Most people speak slang Spanish, and make up their own words.  But, I’d much rather learn to speak as they do to reach them.  So, now that I know how to speak “the right way,” maybe I can learn “the wrong way” as well in order to reach the street people on their level.

            I am learning to write a little bit in Spanish now, but my writing skills are atrocious.  I have plans to write tracts, and discipleship courses in Spanish, but I’ll have to put those on the shelf for now, as my grammatical skills leave a lot to be desired.  But, my teachers are helping me, and showing me my mistakes and helping me to write correctly.  Please pray that I might learn quickly, as there is so much I’d like to do.

            Also in November, I had to do some more mechanical work on my car, as driving these steep, bumpy, mountainous roads has destroyed my shocks, and worn out my front brakes.  So, I had to have them replaced.  I also had to have a power steering leak fixed as well.  But, thank God, and you all who are helping to support the work here, I was able to cover the costs of repairs.

            So, that’s about it.  Please remember these souls that made a profession of faith, and pray that I may be able to start a church in this village of Colomoncagua.  My biggest oppostition if not from the Catholics (although they don’t like me), but from the Charismatics.  That’s usually the way it works.

           

            Thanks again for your prayers and support!

           

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

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

October 2001

            October has been a very long and tedious month.  Most of it was spent traveling all over the country trying to get things situated and in order.  The first of the month I went to Puerto Cortez to get my car as it was coming on a boat from the states.  What should have been a two day ordeal at the most, dragged on for over a week.  It seemed like everything that could go wrong did. 

            When my papers for the car came, there was a problem with the Bill of Laden. That took several days to correct.  Then a hurricane came and set me back a day or two.  Then when we went to the office of the administrator for his signature, he told us that he didn’t feel like working that day, and to come back tomorrow or the next day.  What a thing!  But, I’m learning that such are the ways of Honduras.  Everything is slow here, and to be a missionary in this country, one needs patience. 

            Even though things didn’t go as planned, I can rejoice because 76 year old Gerald Bush accepted Christ as his Saviour while I was there!   After streetpreaching in the park there in downtown Cortez, he asked me to speak with him privately.  I sat next to him, and he began to talk to me in English.  He said, “My wife is a Seventh Day Adventist, and has been trying to get me to get baptized in that church for years.  But, I keep telling her that I’m a sinner, and if I get baptized, I’ll just get wet, and then I’ll be a wet sinner!  There must be more to it than that!”   There sure is!  And for the next 30 minutes or so, I told old Gerald the gospel.  After accepting Jesus Christ as his personal Saviour and his precious blood to wash away his sins, he looked at me with tears in his eyes and said, “Tell it to me again!  It’s such a wonderful story!   How much love he had for me!”  What a blessing not only to see somebody get saved, but to see them appreciate it as well.  That makes even more worthwhile!

            After securing my car, and finally getting it out of customs, I had another problem.  The pastor that is helping me in Tegucigalpa called me and told me that he was going out of town for a week, and that he couldn’t help me move into my new place there until he got back.  That gave me a whole other week to wait.  So, I decided to redeem the time.  Rather than sit around and do nothing, I decided to go and visit missionary Earl Howell in the island of Utila in the hope of gleaning some of his years of experience on the field.  My visit went well, and I learned a lot from him.  I also had the opportunity to preach there on the island of Utila for Pastor Julio Cordon.  I preached on “Obedience,” and he said that was just what they needed.

            After my trip to the island, I drove to Santa Rosa de Copan to pick up my belongings from missionary Ronnie Doss, who had been holding them for me.  They came to his place on a container, and were there waiting for me to pick them up.  It took two trips, but finally I got all my stuff, and was able to move into a new place.  I’m renting a room from a family here in Tegucigalpa.  They are very nice, and are taking care of my needs.  I hope to stay here til the middle or end of December (after I finish some more language school), and then hopefully be able to move closer to Colomoncagua. 

            I still plan on going there every weekend as before and visit and try to start a work.  But, please pray for this as I have been gone to so many other places this month, that I haven’t been able to go there for three weeks.  Now that I’m situated, I plan to begin the task of visiting every house and preaching to everyone the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.  Please remember this in your prayers and pray that God will bless and that souls will be saved.

            Also, please pray for my Residence Visa as I only lack one more paper.  I’ve been here two months now, and am only allowed three on my passport.  So, if I don’t get my Visa soon, then I’ll have to leave the country and then come back to have another 90 days.

            Thanks again for all your prayers and support! 

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

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

September 2001



Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

    

          Greetings once again from Honduras.  I’ve been here for over a month now, and I wish that I could say I that I’ve enjoyed every minute of it.  But, the truth is that I’ve been sick off and on the whole time.  I have had headaches, stomachaches, sorethroats, and then some.  But, this didn’t stop me from traveling to Colomoncagua every weekend to teach Bible, nor did it keep me from attending my Spanish classes.  I can honestly say that it’s been a very busy month, with much pain and suffering, but it has been worth it knowing that I’m serving the Lord!

            In the little village of Colomoncagua, I encountered the men that I told you all about, who wanted me to start a church there.  Well, it turns out that they weren’t as enthusiastic about it as I had expected.  They told me to come back in December to talk to them more about it.  They said that they were very busy with Politics, (as this in an election year) and are working hard preparing for the November presidential election.  So, we’ll wait and see what happens with them.

            But, I do have a 16 year old boy, named Rafael, there in the village that I am teaching the Bible too every Saturday.  So, I plan on continuing to go to Colomoncaga on the weekends to teach him.  And,  during the weekdays of Tuesday through Thursday I will continue to attend language classes in Tegucigalpa eight hours a day.

            My Spanish is coming along well.  Not only am I learning grammar, vocabulary, and rules, but they are teaching me words as well that are only used in Honduras.  This is a big help in speaking with the people, and getting an opportunity to witness to them.

            I’ve also had several opportunites to preach and teach since I’ve been here.  I’ve preached this month so far about three times in various churches, and had the pleasure of teaching Bible to nine men who are taking Bible classes in a church in El Paraiso (near the Nicaragua border).  I taught for three days on “The 7 mysteries in the Bible.”   I  was sick as a dog the whole time, but I got through it, and was grateful for the opportunity.  They even asked me to come back next month and teach some more if I am able.

            So far, my Residence Visa has yet to come through.  I lack one paper still and then we can process it.  But, the good news is that I learned that I can file for a permit to drive for one month while waiting for my Visa.  So, I plan to go to Puerto Cortes the beginning of October to pick up my car.  With my Residence Visa, the law states that I do not have to pay duty on it, but while talking with several missionaries here, I was informed that most Hondurans usually don’t follow the laws.  And, they will probably charge me duty even though it’s supposed to be free.  If this is so, then I will have to pay an outrageous amount for my car, or it will be impounded.  Please pray that the Lord will work this out, and I will be able to get my car for free as the law says I should.  This would be a blessing, and would allow me more money to use for the ministry.

            Finally, let me tell you that I’ve been keeping a daily journal of what I’ve been doing here, and what I’ve been going through since I got here.  And, I plan on continuing to do so.  Also, my plan is to post it on my internet site for those of you that are interested in reading it.  It will be a lot to read, but if you ever get curious about what Bro. Breaker is going through, or what he did on such and such a day, feel free to look up the date, and read what happened.  That way you can feel like you are going through it with me, and get an idea of what it’s like as a missionary on a foreign field.

            Well, God bless you all.  And, thanks again for all your prayers and support. Thanks again, and God bless you all!

Because He shed His precious blood for me,

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras

August 2001

Dear praying friends,

    

            Greetings from beautiful Honduras!  It’s good to finally be here after over two long years on deputation.  And, I’m glad to be able to tell you that God got me here safely!  I left the states on the 20th of August, and flew to Monterrey, Mexico to attend a four day Spanish Bible Conference at the Grace Baptist Church where Raul Reyes is the Pastor.  I had a wonderful time, and learned a lot of useful information about the various versions of the Bible in Spanish.  This helped me a lot, as I desire to give the people of Honduras the pure words of God!  

            After leaving the conference, I flew to Mexico City, Guatemala City, and San Salvador until I finally arrived safely to my destination of the capitol city of Tegucigalpa on the 24th of August.  The thing that really got me, as I looked down upon these countries from my window seat, was how rich all these countries looked in comparison to Honduras.  Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador all had beautiful airports and nice buildings and homes close by.  But, when I flew into Honduras I was agasht at how poor it looked in comparison.  I knew it was the poorest country in all of Central America, but in my last two trips here, I didn’t have the chance to see how it compared to the surrounding countries.  But, now I see even more how much of a need there is!  Please pray for the Honduran people.

            Upon my arrival in Honduras, Pastor Abel Bonilla pick me up at the airport.  He is kind enough to allow me to stay at his home as long as I need in order to get on my feet and out on my own.  And, it looks like I’ll be here with him for about a month.

            On the 27th of August, I enrolled in the International Academic School of Languages here in Tegucigalpa in order to learn more Spanish.  They gave me a  placement test to see how good my spanish was, and after grading it, they placed me in the second grade!  (Can you believe it? I thought my spanish was better than that!)  But, that’s fine because I need and want to learn more grammar.  The cirriculum is an intense one month study course of clases 8 hours a day, three days a week (Tue-Thur). And, this schedule will give me time to travel to the little Village of Colomoncagua on the weekends to try to start a work. 

            My teachers in Spanish are two men.  One a true Spaniard from Spain, who speaks the true “Castellan” Spanish, and the other is a Honduran who is teaching me the slang Spanish that they speak here.  The Spaniard is a stanch Catholic and has studied with the Jesuits at one time.  So, as funny at it may sound, here I am in Honduras in the second grade studying under a Jesuit Catholic!  But, in all seriousness please pray that I can witness to him as well as my other tutor.

            Now, let me back up and tell you about some things that happened in August before the big move here to Honduras.  The first couple of weeks of August were spent shopping (that’s right shopping) and buying a few necesities for honduras.  For example, I bought a generator, some extra carparts, tools, a battery powered drill, kitchen items, as well as many tracts and bibles to take with me.  Then, after packing up all these items, along with everything I own (which turned out not to be very much), I drove everything up to Birmingham, Alabama on the 13th to put it on a container bound for Honduras.  They will ship my stuff to a missionary who has a warehouse.  And, when I can, I will go and pick up my things from him.  

            Also, in the beginning of August, I had a few car problems.  First, my truck wouldn’t shut off, and then it wouldn’t start up again.  The problem turned out to be with the key ignition switch.  So, I took it in to the shop, and they found several coolant leaks, and several other major problems that needed to be fixed before going to Honduras.  Well, I needed it in tip-top shape for the task before me, so I told them to do it. The final cost was a whopping $1200.  But, to God be the glory, even though it was that much, they did a few extra things for free, as they knew I was a missionary, and they even gave me a discount on a couple of things as well.  So, thank God when I do get my truck, it should be in good running condition and ready to take me through the villages and cities of Honduras to preach the glorious gospel of Christ.

            So that’s about it.  There is much to do in the next month with school and preaching.  Plus, I visited my lawyer here, and he is pushing my paperwork through the proper channels to obtain a Residence Visa.  He informed me this would take about a month, and that I can’t get my truck until I have it.  So, please pray that it will go through quickly. 

Because He shed His precious blood for me,

  

Robert Ray Breaker III

Missionary to Honduras