Briefly I would like to take a moment a mention a few things that are taking place in Honduras.  My name is Mark McClellan & am working in a evangelistic Bible school called The School for Harvesters.  We are trying to raise up Honduran laborers who are able to 1. walk the Christian walk and 2. effectively share the gospel to those who need it. 

I’m like to share my enthusiasm for where the Lord has planted me and what He is giving me to do in His harvest field.  I’ve been doing this for twenty years and am still excited about the opportunity to share the gospel with many people who have never heard it, even though some of them have Ph.D.’s I am involved in international student outreach at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.  (That’s how I know Toby Meisenheimer, one of the founders of Mission Equip.  Toby went through Jr. High and High School here.) My particular passion is reaching out to young, university professors from China who come here for sabbatical studies for several months.

Mark Batterson, the pastor of National Community Church in Washington, D.C., recently wrote an article about his church’s missions trip to the Galapagos Islands. In the article, Mark shares about how the Lord orchestrated a meeting between an unbeliever who was contemplating suicide because his wife had recently left him and a strong, Spanish-speaking believer on the NCC team who had also contemplated suicide when his wife left him 15 years ago.

Here’s an excerpt from Mark’s article:

There is a medical project that is in the middle of launching. The purpose of this medical project is to provide and enable Christian medical clinics and hospitals to maintain a database of their patients, in great detail. The founder and developer of this project, Rogers Hellman, is a wonderful man of God, who has given of his own time and personal resources, in order to make this happen. This project would provide hardware and software, such as wireless PDAs, laptop computers, servers, cellular phones, in order to give this project the flexibility and and technology necessary to accomplish its purpose.

I wanted to share a prayer request and an opportunity to help further the Kingdom of God. In Orange Walk, Belize, which is the northern most province in Belize, there is a bilingual Christian school, called New Life Elementary School. This school is a tremendous outreach to the community of Orange Walk, which is the 3rd largest city in Belize. Currently, there are about 200 students enrolled in this school to receive a bilingual, Christian education. Over the past 4 or 5 years, the school has been experiencing a tremendous growth in number of applications from parents who want their children to attend this school. During these past few years, the impact that the Christian education has had on the children has impacted not only the children and the peers, but also their parents. The change that is seen in the students is a testimony that has more of an impact that we could ever have. At this point, we have finished the building of the elementary school, along with a chapel and gymnasium, however, in order for the Belizan government to give us the permit to open a Middle and High School, we need to purchase property and build more buildings to fit more students and adhere to the legalities that the government has implemented for education institutions. If you would like to know more about this Christian school and how it impacts the lives of the people in this community, please contact me, Tony Martinez at: . I am the Director for Central America for Impact International, a non-denominational organization, which has been serving the Lord in Latin America for over 50 years. Our website is: http://www.impactinternational.org. You can also contact the Director of the school, whose name is German Cob at: or . We look forward to hearing from you and I will also be posting more blogs in order to provide more information and also keep you posted on this tremendous ministry of educating the future of the world’s church.