A Summary of Our Adventures from March 2007 to April 2007

During a short-term mission trip to Honduras we saw the complete vision God has given the General Baptist in Honduras and decided we wanted to be a part of this vision. Just to be sure we were not making this decision under the influence of a “short-term mission trip spiritual high” we decided to go home, spend some time praying and talking, and see if we still felt the same way.

Several days after returning we realized we were not on the “spiritual high” and this is where God wanted us. We emailed Johnny Hibbs to let him know we would be interested in pursuing this. He emailed us back in about 15 minutes letting us know Jack Eberhardt would be in Evansville the next day and would we want to meet with him. Well, it didn’t work out for us to meet with Jack the next day but we did meet with him a week later. After the meeting we realized it’s really going to happen. We are really going to Honduras.

We have wanted and tried to go somewhere for so many years and nothing happened. We had accepted the fact that maybe God wanted us to stay here and help get others to the mission field. And then this happened. Wow!

So we started the process – filling out applications, getting copies of transcripts, reading books. For us this also involved learning about the General Baptist. We looked over their Statement of Faith to make sure we could were comfortable with it. We also found out to go as General Baptist missionaries we had to be members of a General Baptist church. We were directed to Main Street General Baptist Church and begin attending in April 2007. Pastor Kevin Morris and Main Street has been so wonderful. They have welcomed us with open arms and made us feel at home and a part of the church body. The truth is we wish we could spend more time at the church but our speaking schedule doesn’t allow us to be there on a very regular basis.

We then commenced the process of telling our family. Surprisingly it went very well. Can’t say that all are excited but all are not opposed – which is nice. About this same time we begin putting together a list of people who we would like to be a part of this church planting team in Central America. As we were putting the list together we tried to listen to the Lord about the composition of the list of names. We ended up with a list of about 200 people.