Day Three – Honduras

Day 3 – Honduras
Mike (missionary) cooked us pancakes (plain and banana) and bacon for breakfast! We went to Iglesia Bautista Libertad (Freedom Baptist Church) for Sunday school at 9am. It was a wonderful experience. I (Pastor Steven) brought greetings from PSBC and Shawn spoke on behalf of the group. We really enjoyed the music and singing songs with our brothers and sisters in Christ (some we recognized, some we did not). The opening song was my favorite, Worthy Is the Lamb (Thank You for the Cross). The Pastor came over at the preaching time and asked if I would preach. I had prayed for the on Sunday morning and God had brought James 1 to my mind, so I had put those sermon notes on my ipad (praise the Lord!) and stood and preached with Erin translating. When I had finished, the Pastor taught the Sunday School lesson on Exodus 18.
We left the church after the service, picked up Pastor Guillamo and headed for the beach (Pacific ocean side of Honduras). We drove about an hour to the beach and saw a beautiful countryside. They grow a lot of corn and sugarcane. We were visiting a Baptist camp on the beach and the men decided this would be a great place for a men’s retreat sometime! We all got out of the van and were greeted with the smell of fish and shrimp cooking. We enjoyed a meal of fresh (i.e., caught that morning) fish and shrimp. After lunch some of the guys got in the ocean and the rest of us sat under a homemade shelter on he beach. I got the privilege of swinging in a hammock while listening to the waves crashing on the shore and looking out over the Pacific ocean at El Salvador and Nicaragua. It was truly a beautiful afternoon!
We returned to the house and prepared for evening worship service at 6pm. The evening service was shorter than the missionaries told us it would be – it only lasted two and a half hours. We had Wiley, Ryan, and Jose (our driver) share testimonies and the pastor preached from Revelation 21 on the coming day of the Lord.
After the evening service we went to Wendy’s in Choluteca and had dinner. It was a long but incredibly blessed day.

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