Short term CPM team

To all of you who have been following the articles on the WME blog, let me ask for your special prayers for a major outreach that is about to happen in Honduras. As you know, WME has a permanent team in western Honduras that is conducting community development ministries and beginning inductive Bible studies as initial steps in church planting. The project is going very well and as of now, has begun 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation studies. We are very excited about what is happening there.

So now a team of 16 people are preparing to travel to Honduras in the coming days. The trip is May 30 through June 6. This short term team will be assisting the permanent team in community development ministries. The team plans to help with painting a school, drilling a water well, and distribution of school supply backpacks to hundreds of children in several villages. They will also be learning about the principles of church planting movements.

Please pray for this outreach. Our hope is that the communities in which the team will work will be blessed, and that doors for further Bible studies will be opened which our Honduran team can follow up on.

I hope to report about the trip when I return.

Then in a couple of weeks we will return our attention to the 3 column study that we have been examining in the blog articles.

Thanks for being an important part of what God is doing in western Honduras.

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