Burkina to Honduras

BURKINA FASO

Our team ministered in a church on Sunday morning where we witnessed two miraculous healings, then we conducted an evening outreach in a community just outside of Ouagadougou where there were many salvations. The next day we traveled to the southwestern part of Burkina Faso to the Karaboro who are a completely unreached people group. As expected, we encountered many challenges, breakdowns, and illness on our journey. Reaching the unreached is always met with much resistance and difficulty. We spent three days going into three different villages. We began each day at the public school giving away Operation Christmas Child gifts and putting on a puppet show and playing games with the children. We would then encourage the children to go home and invite their families to our evening outreach where the Gospel would be shared and an opportunity to accept Christ was given. We encountered a great deal of spiritual resistance, but one brave girl boldly accepted Christ and with the continued efforts of our Burkina team and a local pastor, Pastor Ernest, we are continuing to believe that the hearts of the people would be softened and that the stronghold of witchcraft would be broken. Once we returned to Ouagadougou, we spent time with the Fulani at Kids of Hope, playing games, sharing testimonies, and providing them with new shoes. We are now looking ahead to 2019 when we will return again and target another unreached people group.

HONDURAS

For five years running, we have a team going to the Church at Olam on the edge of a poor bordo community conducting a week of Vacation Bible School. These children wait all year long in anticipation for our team's return and our relationship with this community is being strengthened year after year.  This year we had approximately 75 children in attendance during VBS and a total of 24 children made a decision for Christ. We participated in feeding programs since the majority of families there live on less than $1.00 a day. Hunger and malnourishment are chronic problems that our missionaries are working to solve. We ministered at a local orphanage where ten more children made a decision for Christ and we went door-to-door in the bordo visiting and praying for people and we saw two more salvations. Pictured below is a woman who is 100 years old and she was very grateful for the visit and prayers of our team.  We had a rare opportunity to visit the city dump where approximately 70 families live and work digging through the heaps of trash for recyclables. They then sell the recyclables back to the owners of the dump to earn a living. We were unable to gain the permits to go into the dump, but we set up just outside the gate and 57 people came out to us. We passed out 100 baleadas which are burritos made with eggs and beans.  One man, a severe alcoholic who felt he was unworthy of accepting Christ, committed to following Him that day after speaking with Chris. In total 37 decisions for Christ were made - a very worthy and valuable week spent in Honduras.