TAN Mission Report January 2025– Honduras
Our third mission to Honduras took us to five different cities where we held three pastor’s conferences, two marriage conferences, and one evangelism-and-discipleship in addition to ministering in three church service, a prison, and a hospital during our busy ten days in the country.
We began our time in the capital city of Tegucigalpa where were held a pastor’s conference and a marriage conference and ministered in a local church. One pastor who participated in the pastors’ conference shared with us that he had driven six hours to be present and would then do the same trip in reverse at the end of the day. Another pastor told us that, even though he had been in the ministry of pastoring and pioneering churches for twenty-three years, he felt that he had learned much valuable advice during the day-long seminar.
As exciting as the as the ministry at the conference was, it was not the only exhilarating moment of our day. On our way to the meeting, our driver rushed to make a left turn through a gap in the oncoming traffic, not seeing that there was a truck approaching from the right side. When Delron yelled out a warning, he was able to stop just inches short of a collision while the vehicle he was trying to beat through the intersection also screeched to a halt just short of crashing into our vehicle. This is story is not intended to suggest that he was a careless driver but to illustrate the necessity of divine protection in the congested and aggressive traffic of Honduras – a necessity that was accentuated a few minutes later when his GPS directed him to turn the wrong way on a one-way street. When he realized that he had made this erroneous turn, he quickly pulled into the next available street – the city open-air market which was lined on both sides by street vendors displaying their merchandise of every sort – fruits, vegetables, electronics, housewares, clothing, and every other imaginable commodity. They took up not only the sidewalk but most of the road, leaving only inches of clearance for our truck to pass through – making us question if it was even permissible for vehicular traffic to use this road. When we met other traffic trying to squeeze through the street from the other direction, we couldn’t imagine how two vehicles could maneuver through the maze for produce and peddlers that was almost impassable for just our truck.