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Newsletter Nineteen |
August
19, 2006 |
Regardless
of whether or not you knew it, through your financial support, prayers
and encouragement, this strange, interconnected group of several
hundred people that received my newsletters and then passed them on to
their congregations and friends managed to fund many projects,
encourage many young people, plant some trees, cover a Church with
prayer, and lend me, for a few years, to a young and growing Central
American Church. I hope that as you cared for the Honduran people
under your sheet of grace, you in turn felt cared for, informed, and
perhaps challenged under that very same sheet. I am astounded
with the impact that we as a community of people in the United States,
Central America, and all those other African, Asian, Middle-Eastern,
and European countries can have!
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Newsletter Eighteen |
June
23, 2006 |
The church is a light in the midst of the
hopelessness, a song in the storm, and the prophetic fighter
challenging institutionalized sin. To be clear, the Honduran
Lutheran church does not advocate the people leave illegally for the
United States, but understands the reasons that implore them to go.
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Newsletter Seventeen |
February
2, 2006 |
Hurricane season hit hard in Honduras last
year. Thousands of Hondurans died in New Orleans in Hurricane
Katrina, and thousands more died in the tropical storms and hurricane
tails that whipped the Northern coast.
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Newsletter Sixteen |
October
28, 2005 |
For many of the youth, although they live
within 75 miles of the sea, it was their first time to see or touch the
ocean... We were talking with 20 year olds that had never had any
formal environmental education in their lives.
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September
15, 2005 |
Historically in
Honduras, the voice of the people has been quiet and passive.
This week’s protest was an uncharacteristic and passionately desperate
cry of the poor.
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July
21, 2005 |
One of the greatest successes we’ve had in
the last year is a general admission on the part of the adults that the
youth, indeed are valuable members of the congregation, and, all the
more, that they are valuable leaders in the congregations.
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June
14, 2005 |
Please remember in your prayers the sick
of Honduras.
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Honduras
Newsletter Eleven
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April,
15, 2005 |
We spoke as a community of what
it means to feel the darkness and to feel as though all hope as been
crucified. And then we spoke of God's promise to resurrect our
hope
and bring us into the light. |
Honduras
Newsletter Ten
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March,
17, 2005 |
This is incredibly rewarding.
It’s a little sad, however, to step down from my role with the
youth…though I happily relinquish it to several of the remarkable,
talented, and capable youth leaders that have risen into leadership
roles in the past year. |
Honduras
Newsletter Nine
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January,
29, 2005 |
The
event [ICLH National Youth Gathering] was a profound success and has
impacted the future leadership of this church in ways we shall soon
see. |
Honduras
Newsletter Eight
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December,
18, 2004 |
Jesus
is not only born into this dirty, wilting world on Christmas, he walks
the streets daily. He stares at me out of those empty eyes of a
child, and blazes in the youth that fight to succeed against the odds. |
Honduras
Newsletter Seven
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October
13, 2004 |
I think it was a powerful moment for the
ICLH national leaders to sit around a table with a handful of
international leaders and mutually share in God's purpose. |
Honduras
Newsletter Six
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September
14, 2004 |
The
truth is, much of the vision of the
Iglesia Cristiana Luterana de Honduras comes from the
youth. |
Honduras
Newsletter Five
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August
20, 2004 |
The
Olancho community opened its doors and hearts to the strangers from
the States... |
Honduras
Newsletter Four
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July
13, 2004 |
Little
by little, I watched a talented group of young Honduran women
and men begin to rediscover God's dreams for the church... |
Honduras
Newsletter Three
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June
15, 2004 |
Even
the air that moves in San Nicolás is peaceful. |
Honduras
Newsletter Two
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May
14, 2004 |
…Life
in Honduras continues to surprise, bless and challenge me.
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Honduras
Newsletter One
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April
21, 2004 |
I
have
finally arrived in
Honduras. |
