MISSIONARY TO HONDURAS,
C.A.
Ted
Tweet, Apartado Postal 1880, San Pedro Sula, Honduras, C.A.
Honduran phone #
011-504-551-0302; USA phone # that
rings in Honduras (859)
448-3585
E-mail tltweet5555@aol.com
Sponsoring Church:
Bryan Station
Baptist Church, 3175 Briar Hill Road, Lexington, KY 40516
Dear
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
I want to send
greetings in the name which is above all names, our Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ. I thank my God for you all and
your kindness, prayerfulness, and support for this continuing work in Honduras. This morning in my devotions, I was blessed
by our Lord through the writings of Bro. Spurgeon
and the text he used. Psalm 27:14 “Wait on the
Lord; be of good courage, and he will strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on
the Lord.” This is one of the hardest
things for human beings to do. Wait. We have been programmed to “go for it, move,
act, get going, don’t wait... ,” but God tells us to
wait!
Well, that is what we
are doing, packing and waiting! The Lord
knows just the time He wants us to contract with a container company, He knows
when someone will buy the vehicles as well as the house, and who it will be. I must not become impatient, but wait in prayer and call upon God. He knows my willingness to complete His will,
whatever and whenever He so demands or leads.
I must remember that my dependence is in Him. Continue to remember us in your prayers.
During this past month,
I have preached in the mission in Jesus de Otoro,
as well as the Sovereign God B.C. in San
Pedro Sula. After one of the services a young teen age
girl came to me with another sister in Christ, and
told me that she wanted to be baptized and be a member of the Lord’s
Church. When I asked her about her
salvation, she said she was trusting in the Lord as her personal Savior and
that it had been a while back, but because of her shyness she feared to make
her salvation public. She is a maid for
a family in the assembly and is from a small village. We thank the Lord for this blessing.
I have been asked to
preach to two areas this week for their area wide fellowship meetings. First, on Tuesday, July 29th, in
the
Baptist Mission in Bambú, which is a mission work of the Emanuel B.C. in Rio
Esteban; and then on Friday, August 1st, in
the Baptist Church of El Bosque in Tegucigalpa.
We continue to give out
gospel tracts and testify to the people here in San Pedro Sula. I always give out tracts to the police at
their check points and try to tell them of their need to consider the message
of the Lord Jesus Christ and the need to repent of their sins. The tract which draws their attention is the
one called, “Are You Prepared to Die?” I
tell them that in their line of work they need to really consider this
question. I always get a positive
reaction from them. They say that they
will read and consider the message. The
other day we were stopped two times within ten minutes and there are five policemen
at each check point. They continually
are moving the check points to stop the movements of illegal drugs and guns.
The fear factor living
here is sometimes higher than other times.
We hear of horrible things which happen all around us, but God has
protected us from their evil. Just the
fact of opening your home, for people to see it, is a great risk. We
cannot have a garage sale like you all do in the USA, or we would have to hire at
least two armed guards and then fear that they would be crooked or be robbed of
their arms! I heard of a case the other
day that the head of a security company was being arrested, because he had
stolen a new car from the very same people who had hired his company. I say it often, "The Lord has been so
good to us!!"
By the way, we have
received one quote to rent a container, and it is just under five thousand
dollars from our house here to Decatur, Al. If any
church is led of the Lord to help out in this need, please mark it, “moving
fund”. God blessed in our coming to Honduras with someone loaning us a container in South Carolina, and He
could do it again if it be His will.
Thanks so much for your continued prayers, letters, cards, and special
offerings.
Your brother in Christ,
Ted Tweet