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Update on the Honduras Church Planting Movement

In the last blog I gave a report from our recent short term trip to Honduras. In this report I want to update all our readers about the progress of the project. God is truly doing something in the mountains of western Honduras. First a little background. This project is a very recent outreach. In September 2006, Randy Travis, our missionary in charge of the project, and I attended a seminar on church planting movements taught by David Watson. At that time we began to discuss what a cpm project might look like in Honduras. In November and December of 2006, Randy and his son Keith, along with WME missionary Richard Crowder , did an exploratory trip in Honduras to assess the need and opportunity for a cpm project there. On that trip the region where we would begin the work was decided. In January 2007, Randy presented a preliminary strategic plan for HCPM to me and I presented it to the WME board of directors, and the decision was made to move forward. David Watson and the te

Short term CPM Team Successful

The team of 16 hardworking cpmers has returned and is rejoicing in all that God did through them during the trip to help our Honduras cpm project. The team consisted of 13 people from the Cave Hill Independent Church of God in Versailles, Indiana and 3 others from Western Ky. Ben Holloway, a missionary evangelist from Madisonville , Kentucky and Daniel Slayden and I from Marshall County, Kentucky went with the Cave Hill team. Our mission was to assist our permanent team in Honduras that consists of 2 full time missionary couples and 1 part time couple. (Randy and Linda Travis' daughter and son-in-law, Angela and Nick also came down for this outreach). Our Honduran church planters made up the full contingent that were working together during the week. Our goal was to assist the team with practical projects that will help open and widen doors for the gospel in Honduras. The trip launched on May 30 and we all arrived home (after some flight difficulties because of weather) on June