Real Results with DESEO
This group of teenagers are students in our DESEO public school program that teaches values and Biblical principles. 
They also participated in our UPWARD youth basketball league that just ended. They are attending the local church now in Santa Rosa as well as the youth group meetings. In addition, we have recruited them to work as coaches in a basketball league for younger children in a different community. This gives our DESEO team lots of opportunity to evangelize and disciple these young people. In a way this is exactly what our DESEO-UPWARD program is all about, making disciples of Jesus one way or another.  |
Boot Camp Module #4
Our one-week intensive Boot Camp training series continues to have great impact. Pictured here are the 27 men that have participated in the first four modules.
 Before receiving the training there were four men that were leaders in their local churches conducting Bible studies, leading in worship or preaching on occasion. Now after receiving the first four modules there are 16 men leading and preaching in their local congregations. In addition, these men reported that two new congregations have been established and three churches that had shut their doors have been reopened and restored. A full eighty five percent of the men report that this training has completely transformed their lives. We praise God for these results.
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Santa Rosa de Copán Church Building
Some time back the local church in Santa Rosa de Copán (SRC) sold a piece of property and the Campus View church from Athens, Georgia helped us raise $50,000 to combine with their proceeds in order to purchase a larger building lot here in a central location.
In the meantime we have been renting a warehouse. The rent is expensive since it is commercial space and so these past two months we have been building a shed like structure that we can meet in order to save money for building a permanent structure. Our hope is that we can move into this temporary shed structure at the end of September. We hope to organize a number of short-term mission groups to come and help construct this permanent structure beginning in February of 2013.
If you and your church are interested in coming on a short term mission with this particular construction project please contact Donna, our group coordinator, at waldronfam@me.com.
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Evangelistic Campaign
Mission UpReach and the students from our CREO program helped Jesús Aguilar, a Honduran missionary supported by the Holland Park church in Greenville, SC to establish a new congregation in La Entrada de Belén, Lempira this past month with an evangelistic campaign.  In addition to supplying personnel to work in the event we were able to use our tent, sound equipment, chairs, and bus making it possible for the 91 people in average attendance to hear the Gospel preached.  There were two baptisms during the four-day event. Jesús had previously study with and baptized an adult male and has several more people who are close to making a decision to surrender their life to Christ as Lord. Jesús Aguilar will be working in the community on a regular basis in order to nurture and grow this fledgling work. We will continue to support Jesús efforts by assisting him in recruiting new male converts to Christ to participate in our Boot Camp leadership-training program. In this way we will be building up the church in that local community as we are in other communities.
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Cindy Mendez Goes Back Home
The little orphan girl, that we took to the States last year for treatment, returned home this month. She has Spina bifida and lost both of her feet to amputation due to having club feet and severe bone infection (Osteomyelitis). The Shriners Hospital, Tampa, FL was awesome. Over the past year they did the surgeries and fitted her with prosthesis to permit her to walk like a normal little girl.
Tim, Susan and Stephanie Berry hosted her and treated her like family. After accepting her into their family and growing to love her it was difficult for them to think of her returning to her humble living conditions. (She is an orphan that lives in a two room, adobe house with a dirt floor and no indoor plumbing).
When we arrived in her village at least a hunderd people or so turned out to welcome her home. She ran up this "goat path" that leads to her house for the first time in her life. People all around remarked, "this is a work of God. Only God could have changed her".
 After spending some hours with her and her extended family and after Donna and Ashley, our MUR Registered Nurse, instructed her family on her care we left them to return home to Santa Rosa de Copán.
We will be returning to visit her in a couple of weeks (a 9 hour car ride from Santa Rosa). Please keep her in your prayers.
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