This week there will be two Ministry Teams traveling to Honduras.  Southwood Lutheran of Lincoln, NE will be working in La Cebita.  This is there sister church.  Erick Roberts will be leading the group for Southwood and Amy McIlwain will be the Stateside Staff leader.  The team will be building two widows homes for ladies in La Cebita.  The money for the these two homes were donated to Heart to Honduras by Dr. Darby.  A number of ladies will be helping with the Sewing program there.  The team will also be providing a VBS program for the children of the village.  The team will be attending church in La Cebita on Tuesday night, On Wednesday night they will be showing a film for the village and on Friday they will host a community dinner.  The team will be worshiping with the School of Discipleship students on Thursday night.  They will travel back to San Pedro Sula Saturday and fly back to Lincoln on Sunday.

The second team of the week is from Maiden Lane Church of God in Springfield, OH.  They are led by Jack Crew.  This team will be finishing the walls on the new church at Santa Elena.  The Maiden Lane Church has recently become the sister church to the Santa Elena Congregation.  Their whole week will be spent completing this new worship facility. They will be joined by Gordon Garrett, the President of Heart to Honduras.

This week will also see myself and my family traveling down to Honduras.  We will be letting my family get to see the various parts of the minstry.  We will also take some time to explore other parts of the country.  We are in the process of developing a new program, Vacation with a Purpose.  This family oriented trip will be designed to help families serve the Kingdom of God through ministry while on a vacation.  The program will combine work projects, sight seeing, educational experiences and family bonding activities.  We hope to have this program in place for 2009.

Pray for the team this week.  We are all excited about what God is going to do.

a fellow servant  Steve DeLisle