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September 1, 2011 – Honduras.

With so many people wanting to come to Church we thank God for our new bus.

These are the words that Jesus spoke in a passionate display of love for the children who desired to see Him. May we always be aware that Jesus loves children. In August we were blessed to have our very first children’s crusade where we saw over 80 children and adults crowd into our front room to hear about Jesus. It was our pleasure to have our youth group from Apostolic Temple in Pasadena Texas with us. This anointed group of young people blessed our children in such a powerful way through the ministry of puppets and the preached word of God. It is because of this grand effort that we are now reaching in to a whole new neighborhood in our city. To God be the glory! Thank you Apostolic Temple!

Marc and Lori Schreckhise missionaries to Hondurus

Whether you’re a parent or a teacher, children have a way of teaching us little lessons about life.  As a recent volunteer missionary teacher there weren’t many days I didn’t leave my classroom without one of these “little lessons.”   Too often we laugh, or scold, without stopping first to gain a little knowledge they may have unknowing shared. 

Lesson #1

 A child’s logic is unique and strangely makes sense somehow. For example, if a pencil sharper sharpens pencils, then it must sharpen crayons as well.

(I spent over an hour cleaning the sharpener so it would work again.)

 Lesson #2 

Why take a test today when you can take it tomorrow? This also works well for chores and just general every day things your parents make you do at home.

Lesson #3 

Kids have a language all their own.  Don’t assume a word you hear means what it used to mean when you were a kid. 

Lesson #4

Children are VERY creative when it comes to cheating.  If there is a way, they will find it….trust me.

 Lesson #5 

Keeping a child in their seat is nearly impossible.  Like a determined puppy they will always find a way to escape and wonder the classroom.

Lesson #6

Young children love unconditionally.  You can punish them today and they will love you tomorrow.  It seems that only with age brings the “I haven’t forgotten what you did to me yesterday” idea. 

Lesson #7

Every day is a fresh start.  The problems of yesterday are past; it’s a clean slate so let’s start over again.

Amber Baus holds a bachelor’s degree in Early Childhood Studies from California Baptist University and is pursuing a teaching credential and Masters Degree in Special Education. She recently returned to the United States after completing a year of missions work in the country of Belize.  Amber attends Inland Lighthouse Church pastored by Rev. Larry Booker.    

Pastor Bhatti baptizes a young minister

TOBA TEK SING, PAKISTAN – July 17, 2010. A recently converted Trinitarian pastor has began to baptize his college students in Jesus’ Name. Although he has already baptized much of his church, on the 13th of July he baptized 15 of his students.

Pastor Hizekiel Bhatti and his wife, Shabnam Hizekiel have a Bible college with 25 aspiring ministers. Bro. Bhatti, his wife, and ten pastors in training are evangelizing seven villages through the use of house churches in the region. They currently have about 20 home churches in the area.

Six months ago, they have began to meet with Missionary Jasjit Singh, who does all of his ministry via the internet.

He holds live classes with them on a weekly basis through web casts and is presently teaching them through the book of Soteriology from the Pastor’s Course, which is being translated into Urdu (Pakistani language). Rev. Singh is working on getting five out of the nine books translated for all of the colleges in Pakistan.

One of the 15 Bible college students being baptized in Jesus' Name.

Rev. Singh has established four Bible colleges and is working on adding another one this week. He does extensive outreach to many pastors and groups in Pakistan and India. We want to congratulate Pastor Bhatti for accepting this Apostolic truth! God bless the church in Toba Tek Singh!

Our Tuesday night Bible School with classes from 7 to 10 pm every Tuesday, and the class cycle goes for 10 months. There are 111 students in this format.

MEXICO CITY – June 16, 2010. Every first Monday of the month, starting at 6 pm we have our Monthly Pastor’s and Ministers meeting. It is always an exciting meeting with testimonies of grear victories, miracles and healings from the month before, and also a SHOUTING time of victory as each Pastor quickly reports the baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost the month before. In this month’s meeting (July 4th) there were a total reported of 282 baptized and 505 that received the Holy Ghost in June.

To God be the glory! The HG amount includes some Pentecost Sunday Rallies that were held on the Day of Pentecost in June. Please thank the Lord and rejoice with us!

2011 NATIONAL CONVENTION. July 29-31, 2011. The UPC of Mexico has it’s National Convention every two years, with Zonal (Regional) Conventions during the alternate years. This year our National Convention 2011 will be in the Sports Palace (Palacio De Los Deportes) in Mexico City. We are happy that, among the invited guests and preachers, we will have Rev. David Bernard, General Superintendent of the UPCI: We will have over 15,000 in attendance, and our goal is to see over 1,500 receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Yes we can, and will! Why not plan to come and be part of revival.

Presently there are a total of 235 students in our Bible School in Mexico City, where we have three different formats.

T. Wynn Drost

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June 23, 2011 – Honduras.  Last year with your help we were able to raise the funds to purchase our church property through the coffee with a mission program. It was a success because of you! If you would like to have the opportunity to impact the work of God on hands experience, here is your opportunity. We are looking for churches, youth groups, and Hope Corps missionaries.

We would like to thank Bro. Benjamin and Bro. Jesse for dedicating their time to helping us build our church building. Both of them came to help us through the Hope Corps program that allows young people to get hands on experience on the mission field. individuals who with their pastors permission would be willing to take prepaid orders of 100% pure Arabica coffee. This could be done at your work, school and anywhere you could sell it. The sales of each 1 pound bag of coffee ($12.00) will go towards helping us put the roof on our new church building. If you would be interested in being involved please contact us: mlschreckhise@yahoo.com or call us at: (910) 300-7837 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (910) 300-7837 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Missionaries Marc and Lori Schreckhise

June 23, 2011 – Siguatepeque Honduras.   I have always wondered how it was that a pastor could love a city, or a missionary could love a country to the point of giving ones self to that place without reservations. As A child I remember traveling with my Dad to distant villages in the middle of the jungle mountains of Honduras. It was not the villages and the beautiful scenery that impacted me, but it was the love that my Dad had for my country of Honduras and its people. I always admired his sacrifice to see the kingdom of God go forward.

Just the other day I was looking over my city of Siguatepeque admiring its beauty. Suddenly something on the inside of me rose up and burst forth. I felt an overwhelming love for the city God has given me to reach. These are my people and if I donʼt reach them then it is possible that nobody will.

I was reminded of how that Jesus would weep over Jerusalem desiring to draw them to Him. It must have been such a passion for his people that drove Him to give His all for them.  I am determined now more than ever to preach like I have never preached before, to pull people from the flames of fire that are ahead of them and see my city won for the Kingdom of God.

The last few months I have been doing a series on Holiness in our church. I have been teaching our people that when God fills us with His Holy Spirit, He is giving us a “Spirit of Holiness”. It is part of His divine nature, and is the essence of what and who He is. Throughout this series I have been amazed at how many people have received the Holy Ghost speaking with other tongues. While many today are shying away from preaching holiness in many churches today, it is imperative that we the true church of the living God, preach and teach about His nature. I know that if we teach it, God will pour out of His Holy Spirit upon all flesh.

Missionaries Marc and Lori Schreckhise

Some of the Hope Corps 2011 students in Belize.

GUINEA GRASS, BELIZE – June, 16, 2011. Hope Corps, a Worldwide Pentecostal Fellowship mission program, has already become a successful endeavor in the country of Belize. The services have been packed with people and many have received the Holy Ghost. Wednesday night the service took place in the city of San Pedro in a park next to the local church. The park filled up with people and by the end of the night 17 received the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Hope Corps begins every year in the month of October with online courses sponsored by Apostolic School of Theology. The missions students take six courses that prepare them for their missions. At the end of the sixth course, the students then decide to attend the Hope Training Camp which is offered in two locations: Guinea Grass, Belize and the city of New York. There are 32 Hope Corps students attending the Belize training camp. It has already been a complete success with incredible services, teaching, and on-site training.

The New York training camp begins  next week. We will be providing that news as it comes in, so return to this page for updates.

Photos:

Some of the Hope Corps students inviting neighbors to the church services.

Hope Corps students after lunch.

As of April 9, there are about 17,000 people in so many evacuation centers within the city.
Probably due to the lack of local government employees and other difficulties, the city itself could not grasp the condition of each evacuation center and therefore gave us very little information. However, God has lead the team to go to the very right place where they were in desperate need of what we have taken.

Your prayers have been felt in each step taken for this relief effort. There was another earthquake( M.7.1) on April 7 and it is said that people panicked terribly, so afraid of possible Tsunami, thousands drove away to the high grounds.
Only a few people died and about 230 got injured from this aftershock. Most places that have been recovered in the northeast are again left with no electricity. With so many things happening especially in the Northeast part of Japan, we are seeing this as an opportunity to spread the Gospel in this region. Pastor and Sister Kon are begging us to pray for more labourers to come and work in their region.

We are planning on another trip to Ishinomaki this coming weekend. Please cover us and Japan in your prayers.

Although supermarkets carry limited items, basic things are available. Also gas was just back and running since yesterday and I was told that Brother Kon took a bath for the first time in 3 weeks last night ,finally. She was so thankful for the portable gas table that was provided since gas was unavailable for a long time. While some places begin to show relatively good improvement, there are still others that remain in a pitiful condition. Ishinomaki city is one of those places with the greatest number of people that died, loss of 2,341 lives and approximately 2,700 people missing as of March 31 ,plus 22,750 people still in evacuation.

It is a small city with the population of about 163,000 and they say two-thirds were in evacuation immediately after the earthquake and Tsunami.

This is where our relief effort team will be going from tomorrow. It is about 1-2 hour drive on expressways from Sendai. Each day newspaper carries names of hundreds that are found dead , along with the death toll in each city and town. No other city is more severely affected than Ishinomaki. We have already contacted the local authority, who will give us information as to what is lacking at which evacuation center in the city where we will deliver supplies.

I will keep you posted how things went on this endeavor.

Your continued prayer is very much appreciated.

Brother Yokoyama

Honduras – April 9, 2011.

A Helping Hand From Hope Core

HONDURAS – April 18, 2011. We are also glad to have Bro. Ben Lewis with us from the Rock Church of Elk Grove California. He has come to us through the Hope Core program designed to assist missionaries on the field.  Hope Core is a wonderful program that allows young people who have a desire to serve on the mission field get involved. All Hope Core participants must fulfill a well rounded study of biblical doctrine as well as other studies designed to help them on the mission field. After fulfilling these studies each student volunteers a period of time on the mission field. We have seen first hand the benefits this can bring both to the young person, and the work of God on the field.

Thank you Bro. Ben for giving of your time!

Revival Fires!

We were privileged to have Evangelist Geoff Pfohl from North Carolina with us for a two weeks of revival. God moved in a mighty way! Throughout these revival services many people received the Holy Ghost and were baptized in the lovely name of Jesus. Praise God! The revival fires continue to burn here in Honduras. There is a great hunger for the Word of God and people are sensitive to the call of the Spirit. Please continue to pray for our city and country that God would continue to draw all men unto him as we lift him up and preach His gospel to those around us.

Marc and Lori Schreckhise Missionaries to Honduras