Tending Sheep Ministries

We hope this newsletter finds you well, and want to thank you for your prayers and support. Above is a picture of some of the crazy weather we’ve had lately. Although we’re in the tropics we’ve seen some cold, windy, foggy days lately. Since our house’s electricity comes from solar panels, and since solar panels require sunlight, we’ve had a few nights where we turned everything off in order to save power, and relied on candles for illumination. Doing this provokes meditation on verses like Matthew 5:15 and John 1:4-5.

Ministry Updates

We continue to support a few local churches, where I am blessed to be able to serve as a guest preacher. I’m also still participating as a teacher in a pastor training program. It’s been so rewarding to see the growth in the students, who are as enthusiastic as ever. This is the two-pronged approach we’re taking to tending the Lord’s sheep: by attempting to build up laypeople in the church via preaching, and by attempting to train and nurture pastors who in turn go on to build up their own congregations. While we have now been in Honduras for four years, I feel like we are just getting started.

Homestead Updates

Here are a few odds and ends portraying life around the house:

Over the past few months we prepared to see our youngest child off, now that he is an adult. We accompanied him back to the States, where he’ll start working and eventually going to school. The plane trip home without him was a sad one, but are consoled by the fact that God has plans for his life.

While in the States we took advantage of the opportunity to eat some of the foods we’ve missed. You can’t get injera in Honduras!

I was able to visit the campus of the seminary that I’m attending online.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to expand my education at seminary, but even more so because of the ministerial opportunities a master’s degree will afford. I’m aware of one program that is accredited by a seminary in the US, which is currently offered to pastors here in Honduras. Due to a lack of qualified teachers, they have to fly professors in from the States every few months. However, God willing, once I get my master’s degree I would be eligible to teach this course with a lot less financial overhead since I’m already here in the country. I still have a ways to go before I graduate, so I’ll keep studying and praying that the Lord open up opportunities to serve.

God bless you. Please join us in praying that God do everything that He wants to in our lives, and through our lives.