A group from CCBC recently went to Hondorus on a mission trip. Here is the letter that Austin Moss, the youth pastor, wrote about their experience Thank you, CCBC for "being two-five!"...
Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church recently partnered with 25 Cloth to go on a mission trip to Honduras. We took 20 people from our high school ministry including students and volunteers. The group was led by an organization called Extreme Missionary Adventures (XMA).
So what did we do? We flew into San Pedro Sula, drove five hours to a town called Olanchito, and the next day began hiking on foot into the jungle. We visited three jungle villages: La Balsa, Canoa, and Chile. We hiked for hours to get to the villages. Once we arrived, we were able to show God’s love to the villagers by passing out the Jesus bracelets with the black, red, white, blue, green, and yellow beads. We also gave out Beanie Babies to the children. We played games and told them Bible stories all day, and there was one thing that we did at every village we went to. We couldn’t leave without playing soccer against the men in the village! Soccer was the only sport that they knew and they loved it! They used machetes to quickly build some make-shift goals and the game was on.
Futbol, or soccer certainly wasn’t our game. We got beat, but we had fun and we were able to break down a lot of barriers that had been keeping these people from knowing Christ. Each night we showed “The Jesus Film” in Spanish and our Honduran pastors would give an invitation. At the village of Canoa, a village that only had 18 families, 20 people came to know Jesus as their savior that night. It was amazing!
After four days in the villages, we returned to Olanchito to visit an orphanage, make repairs to their Christian radio station, and join the local church for a celebration service. The people of Olanchito welcomed us everywhere we went, and we were able to build up their body of believers.
Even though our group went to Honduras with a mind to change the world, something else happened while we were there. God showed us how people who looked poor to us could be rich in spirit. These people were completely happy and they were satisfied by God. As it turns out, God changed our world as well.
Thank you 25 Cloth for being a part of our mission to Honduras.
- Austin Moss
High School Minister
Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church
Allen, TX
BE 25!
Matt and Brad at Gotham Hall in NYC (where the conference was held)...
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Matt Lowery...
