Operation Renewed Hope

The ORH team is now gone. A very tiring week but all will sleep well. Much was done for the glory of the LORD. The doctors, workers, and evangelist teams worked hard through very difficult conditions. More than 1000 people were seen and helped. Even more sat under good preaching. They were shown the LOVE of Christ in Word and in Deed. Pastors if you want to send your folks on an adventure for the LORD that will send them home, worn out, tired, broken, contrite and willing to serve the LORD….call ORH. This team had folks from Panama, Mexico, Honduras and the USA. Our Church, Our Family, Our mission, and our people want to thank each of you for coming and sharing in our burden and glorifying Christ.
ORH Has a online picture slide show at: www.teamORH.com

Unworthy Servant to a Worthy Saviour

Barry

ORH CONTACT INFO:
Jan Milton
ORH@AOL.com
http://www.teamorh.com/

Just the Facts

Just the info as I know it for now, more detail to follow as time allows.
Los Tererros 2 day total 169 decisions for Christ 247 in services
Agua Calente 2 day total 140 decisions for Christ 320 in Services
Whensawe Center almost 200 decisions for Christ with more than 4oo in services
La Cruz 2 day 60 decisions for Christ with 220 visiting doctors
That is more than 500 souls making professions of faith...amen!
OTHER Tid bits
1 distressed baby born...would have died
4 or more rushed off the mountain to Hospital
Treated all sorts of ailments from simple to deadly...
Several surgerys, hundreds of teeth pulled, Our Churches dentist(Ermita) may go on a future trip with ORH
Many touched by Christ Ministering Saints...."LORD, When Saw We Thee" AMEN!

I have seen many a ministry, ORH is without a doubt one of the best, most effective ministries I have ever seen by obeying the Bible in deed and in truth.....

First Church Service in Los Tererros

The plowing, planting, and watering has gone on for months.... then comes a harvest amen!

Since the Plane Arrived

Since the plane arrived….busy. The Operation Renewed hope team has begun to arrive in waves from the USA and several Latin American countries…44 team members. The advanced team of 4 came from Fla to help prep for the evangelism and medical clinics. They arrive in a private plane in Choluteca. I got phone calls as the plane circled the city looking where to land. (It’s the first plane we have seen here in 2 years). We unloaded medicines and glasses and got them bedded down for and early start. The next day I did not want to go to Los Tererros empty, so we stopped and had them load 2 meters of gravel to finish the entrance of the church. Installed a battery light system on the church and add the solar panel later as time allows. Map out and plan the location then move to the next mountain and plan some more. Cutting fields, making ways to carry everything up the mountain, getting all the supplies, make a wood stove for Lisa to feed 60 people per day, and so on has really been a chore but the end result will be glory for Christ and lives changed for eternity. Pastor Ramon had a member very sick and asked Dr Waller to visit him Thurs morning. Everyone said the 28 year old man had cancer, but Dr Waller felt he was late stage Aids. He died that afternoon and the preaching service was at his home that evening.

The entire team will be here Saturday. We need a lot of prayer for this week……

Roof Top View

I liked this view of the roof going on the church building in Los Tererros. It now has all the tiles. Amen. Just need steps, doors and windows.....
Barry

Busy

Busy prepping for the doctor team from Operation Renewed Hope to arrive, so my blog time has been light. But the work of the LORD continues. The Church building in Los Tererros will be finished before the doctors arrive. Roof tiles going on today. Bro Dan Asher has been here with his son helping and sleeping with Barry Jr on the mountain.The 10 tables and 15 benches requested for the medical team have been made. Still working at cleaning and repairing all the tents needed; a 40x40, 2-20x30, 20x20,and 15x15 tents. Each will serve as a doctors office or evangelistic tent. Prepping properties, spraying for ants, mowing(with machetes), getting eletric, amplifiers ect still to do in all 4 locations. We are hoping for more than 1200 folks to show up for preaching. Amen. Wendsay we took 96 pieces of lumber and a cubic meter of sand up the mountain in one load. As we turned off the highway to start the climb, an ice cream truck was there waiting on us. Why? The government hired him to take the refrigerated vaccinations to Los Tererros but he could not make the final 5 km climb. He asked if we would take the cooler to the nurse already in Los Tererros…all in a days work. Then more folks got on the always overloaded truck and up we went…the front wheels actually floated off the ground in one steep section of the climb. Our budget is stretched beyond belief getting the church built so we had to improvise on metal plates for the trusses. We found old refrigerators and tin roofing and cut them up and nailed them on with 30 lbs of nails…Dan thought his work might be easy…Welcome to Honduras where it takes twice the effort to go the same distance…But the rewards are sweet. Amen

Unworthy Servant to a Worthy Saviour
Barry

Honduras Funeral

Our first real funeral for The Cross Baptist Church. Maria Cristina passed away yesterday in the hospital of hepatitis. She was a grandmother to many here and had made a profession of faith several months ago. In prayer requests since she repeatedly asked for salvation of her children. The family, though mostly Catholic, asked the church to do the services, preach and pray. I chose to have Carlos do the service and he did great. It was an impassioned plea and all heard a clear presentation of the Gospel. (What your mother wants!) The truck was also the hearse, and we physically helped bury her. (The family digs and buries their own) More than 200 walked to the cemetery. Several grand kids handed out a few hundred Gospels of John with salvation plan in it. It was a bitter sweet experience but Christ was glorified.

Earlier in the week we took the children to the river for an afternoon out. I drove to an area where the river parts and forged about 2 feet of water to park on the island. The children were wading with Sasha in the wide shallows, but it quickly drops into shallow rapids. I though its not too dangerous but I need to walk a little down stream just in case. I no sooner got to where I was going to sit and watch when Karen sat down and was sweeped down river under water. I had to jump in and lift her but could not stop and was now under water instead. I finaly caught a rock and was able to hand her off to Sasha and get out. It scared us more than it scared Karen. If I had missed, it would have been very difficult to catch her. The LORD is in everything even terror, for the children brought up later, the story we used months ago to explain the depth of our love for them. A fictional story saving them from drowning, even at our own peril. It now has deepened….Amen.