Six-Month Home Mission Assignment

It is hard to believe that the time has come for us return to the United States for a Home Mission Assignment. We left the United States on August 25, 2012 to attend language school in Costa Rica and then to live and minister in La Ceiba, Honduras. Our initial term with Mission To the World has come to a close and we have been challenged, changed, and blessed! 

The elders of our home church, Covenant Community Church, 

commissioning us on August 19, 2012

We have spent two years in La Ceiba, Honduras as church planting missionaries. The first year we were heavily involved in community development and mercy ministry in the community of Las Delicias. Changes to our team and vision, directed our second year to mentoring and theological education of Honduran pastors. Adam has walked alongside of Pastor Vicente who ministers in a community called La Trejo. We have witnessed the Lord grow his church congregation and grow their desire to know Him more.

Last week, Pastor Vicente's church held a going away service and party for us. We worshiped together, they prayed over us, and we said goodbye (for now). We celebrated our covenant family and what the Lord has done here by sharing our favorite Honduran food, the national dish, baleadas.

Our family with Pastor Vicente

Worshiping with our brothers and sisters in Christ! 

Oh for a thousand tongues to sing!

We are also blessed to be part of an amazing team whom is passionate about making disciples in Honduras and all over the world! Our teammates have become our closest friends and serve as family while we are away from the familiarity of the United States. We are grateful to serve alongside of these fine folks through the ups and downs of cross-cultural service and living. This Sunday, our team prayed over us after our English church service. We leave knowing most of this team has walked the road we are about to go down and we can fall back on them as needed.

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Team Honduras loving us well.

We marvel that our family in Christ prays over us in our coming and going. We marvel at how the Lord has allowed us to be part of His work. And we marvel that our God is a good God, holy, loving and sovereign in our lives regardless of the country in which we temporarily reside, this side of heaven.