Open Eyes Ministries Blog

It is now 3:10pm in Choleteca. Amy did a wonderful job on her testimony and Brad was awsome with what he spoke of this morning. God dwelled in the church this morning as did a Gecko. Sorry though, you won't save money on your car insurance, but 2 people saved their sould by accepting Christ.

The other halsf of the team went to a different church wher we will be in a couple of hours. They shared that there were approximately 175 children in Sunday school with them this morning and they all were grinning from ear to ear as I am sure was the team.

We assembled back at the hacienda for lunch and half of us went throught the totes that we brought and half went visiting with David. I chose to remain behind to sort totes and to update you on our status. I will have somone else blog about their experience this morning at Sunday school. I will also report later on our service tonight.

Continue to pray for us as we are for you in the 7 degree weather as I saw this morning. It is 87 here with a real nice breeze, but I don't want to make you jeolous, unless that makes you want to come here on mission yourself then all power to you be jealous.

Well, I must study now for tonights service. I leave you with a link to pictures as we have them thus far. You may also access them via the links on the side.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rbarnett73/OpenEyesHondurasMission2008Day2?authkey=54NfWB2wv6c 

en el nombre de Jesus Christo, via con Dios.

Good Morning from Choleteca Honduras

This morning we had morning devotions led by Amy. We had fruit that was not tainted by yellow dye no.5 and it was awesome. We have a only a few minutes before we leave for the morning worship and Sunday school so I thought I would add a few pictures for you to look at, but since this is a free blog, there is no direct upload, so follow the link below to the pictures of our trip. This afternoon we will spend some time mapping them and putting captions to them as we go. This way you can be a part of our trip as well.

http://picasaweb.google.com/rbarnett73/OpenEyesHondurasMission2008Day1?authkey=_WU0EV-Uqks

Many thanks to all who made this trip a reality for today it begins. 

This evening I am going to encourage eveyone to add something to the blog so check back daily for updates.

Today was a long, exciting, tiring, and a few times, scary day. We left the campus of Southern Seminary this morning at 3:30am. After a brief, almost non-existing nap from 1am until the phone rang at 3:00am to remind us to get out of bed. This explains the reason why it was tiring.

It was exiting for me because 1) this was the first time I had flown anywhere since I was two years old, and 2) because this was both Amy and I's first mission trip beside the All-State youth choirs of my youth.

It was scary at times, because as a person who has worked for many years in the roadway design industry, I have never seen 5 vehicles occupy a 2 lane road at the same time without them being on top of a carrier or without a fatality to speak of...until today's drive from Tegucigalpa to Choleteca. Three hours of winding roads throught the mountain passes can make even the most road warrior of us panic, but to do so whil traffic is passing 2 wide around a curve makes you respect just how much God is in control and allows me to be thankful that we survived.

We have arrived! We made it through customs with no big ordeals, Praise God! I did however forget that I had a pocket knife in my backpack that I got for Christmas and forgot to take out of the bag. Thankfully they didn't tag and bag me. The lady allowed us to remove it and give it to one of our friends that was not going on the trip.

Terry and Arlene are extremely gracious hosts. We all have beds :) and wonderful cooks who prepared a fabulous meal for our first night. I can't wait to see what's planned tommorow.

As far as ministry... tomorrow, Brad, Amy, and myself are going to be leading a worship service. Brad will preach, I will sing, and Amy is giving here testimony all through the use of translators. The rest of the group will be leading Sunday School for about 100 kids. Pray or us that we all will be empowered by the Holy Spirit and can see a great miracle this week.

It's late, I'm jetlagged and I am going to bed. Watch here for more tomorrow. I will also be posting pictures as well.

Hasta Manana