A Need In Honduras
For the past week, I have been in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, teaching a group of local pastors about the Hebrew perspective on the New Testament. For most of them, this is challenging and exciting. This is my fourth year here, teaching as part of the GLOMOS and Global Action mission. The objective is to bring expert teaching to pastors who lack any formal education in the Bible. It always results in great community and renewed dedication.
This time I had dinner with the woman who has faithfully translated Today’s Word into Spanish for several years – without a single dollar of income. Her name is Bessy Bendana. She is a fabulous translator, has several degrees in business and is a very capable lady. If any one reading this message has translation work, she would be grateful. Two children, single mom, difficult market – the usual compounded by Honduras.
But that’s not why I am writing. Bessy has a group of about 35 women that she teaches in a weekly Bible study. Most of these women have experienced some kind of trauma. Spousal abuse, abandonment, loss of job, and other things that make their lives very, very hard. Bessy’s Bible study is a ray of hope in their world. Now Bessy has decided to do what she can to start a funding cooperative to help these women get small businesses going. When I talked with her, I knew that At God’s Table had to be part of this effort because it needs to reach people who fall through the cracks. So, I am committing funds from At God’s Table to this cause. If you want to help, that would be great, but I am not asking for that. What I am asking for our your sincere prayers that God will make this all possible and lift these women out of the conditions that they face and give them a new life. You can only imagine how difficult that is to do in the second poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. So, please, my faithful readers, pray for Bessy and her group. I will do all that I can on your behalf. Thank you.
Skip
Thank you for letting us know of the opportunity to serve.
Can you post a secure web info for a credit card number?
This is already available through the donation page at skipmoen.com/donate
All you have to do is tell me that you want it for the Honduras project.
Skip
I can`t tell you how grateful I am for your prayers and any other assistance you can provide. Many women in this group are housewives, some widows, some divorced, but few (actually only two) with a source of income of her own, independent of her husband`s. There is nothing wrong with that, except that we live in a very violent country, and our little group has two widows due to random crime, women who in a minute were left without any source of income and mouths to feed. We have all done what we can to help, and everyone in the group has been very generous, but it has made us aware that any one of us can be in that same situation in an instant, and we do not have enough resources to provide for all the needs. Ours is a country that lacks government assistance for the poor, so we seek to provide these women with sources of income, in some cases to lift families from deep needs and in others to be wise and diligent in a very unstable environment. These are wonderful women, beautiful, gifted, with a heart for our Lord. We seek to create a business model to replicate throughout our congregation and other congregations, to lift women out of dependency (very cultural) to intedependency.
I can`t do this without your prayers. Skip has been wonderful in offering seed money and told me that someone had offered already to teach me some skills I need to do this -I`m not quite sure what kind of training it is, but I`m sure I need it!
35 women. 35 families. Many lives in Honduras. Thank you for keeping us in your prayers. Come and visit us!