Please Pray for these events in April

I want to ask for special prayer in the Month of April for the Honduras CPM project. There will be a very important training trip in the latter part of the month.

On April 17, I will fly to Tegucigalpa and be picked up by Randy Travis, and together we will travel to the Department of Olancho where on April 19, 20, and 21 we will be conducting a CPM training for people from 7 different denominations and fellowships. This is truly a breakthrough time, the kind for which we have been hoping and praying. Included in this training will be people from Baptist, Holiness, Calvinist and Arminian backgrounds as well as both Charismatic and Non-Charismatic churches. Pray that the doctrinal distinctives will be covered by a spirit of Unity and that obedience to the Word of God and discipling the whole nation of Honduras and beyond will become uppermost in the hearts of all. Pray that from all these groups workers will be raised up (Luke 10:2) to become disciple makers and church planters. In this conference there may be some participants who come in from a restricted access country as well, so this conference may impact not only Honduras and the surrounding region, but also beyond the borders of Central America.

From there we will travel to the Northwest of the country and pick up some more team members who are flying in on the 23rd. Then our team will do a special training for our primary church planting team on the 24th, 25th and 26th of April. Then we will head east along the northern coast to Trujillo where we will conduct another CPM training for another denominational group, including (we think) a leader working with a lesser reached people of Honduras. The Trujillo training will take place April 28, 29, and 30.
Pray for leaders to be raised up and eventual harvest to come, along with disciple making and church multiplication.

Our team will travel back to San Pedro Sula on May 1 and we fly home on May 2.

Please pray for financial provision for this endeavor, for traveling mercies and health and protection for the short term team, the long term team (Randy and Keith Travis families), the Honduran team, and all the participants in the 3 trainings.

Prayer is the 1st Critical Element of all cpm. Please cover this in prayer all month. I look forward to the report that I will give after getting home on May 2.

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Unknown said…
David, praying that the experience will be great for all involved, joe
March 25, 2011 at 9:23 AM
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