Honduras

Photo from the Cooking for Christ team, from HPC, that went to Honduras to work with Ernie and Robyn Breaux. (Robyn is in the overalls)

Just talked to some of our missionaries in Honduras, Ernie and Robyn Breaux. Hurricane Felix went through Honduras last week, but thankfully they only experienced a little rain. Another Cooking for Christ team has spent the last week in in Honduras, with the Breauxs, cooking for hundreds of children and families in the area. Ernie and Robyn have a great ministry, ER International, that reaches out to displaced children and provides them a home. Keep these awesome missionaries in your prayers. They are doing so much for the kingdom.

Good 'ol Bamboo

I just got this text from the team of men in Peru, titled "Good 'ol Bamboo". They have started to work on the roof of a local church that began to cave in. There were still aftershocks for days after the initial earthquake. The men have been hauling bamboo to the church site to repair the roof. They are also nearly done repairing the local sewer system - God bless 'em - and began framing up the site for one of the relief camps that Camino de Vida has taken on. Keep these guys in your prayers and continue to pray for the relief effort - that supplies, finances and help would continue to pour in!

Forty Days of Prayer for the Children

If you haven't been praying with Children's Cup tomorrow is a perfect time to start! Be sure to make your way over to the website tomorrow at fortydays.childrenscup.org to check out who is prayin. Its gonna be good!

Peru Relief

As most of you already know, Peru was hit with a 8.0 earthquake about two weeks ago. Camino de Vida, Pastor Robert Barriger's church in Lima, has been asked to be responsible for building and taking care of three relief camps in the city of Pisco. That definitely speaks volumes about the integrity of a church - that the government would ask for help during a time of crisis.

Last week, Mark Stermer, Jeff Rentz and Emily Morrow traveled to Lima to assist Camino de Vida with the relief efforts and immediately saw the need for much more help. In true form, HPC had 14 men who volunteered to take off of work and leave their families for a week to go to Peru and be a healing place for a hurting world. Church of the King, a great church in Mandeville, are also sending 10 men along with 3 men from Our Saviors Church, in Lafayette. We also had numerous people who weren't able to physically go to Peru, sponsor someone else's trip - wow.

The team of 27 men left this morning from New Orleans to travel to Lima and on to Pisco to help build the three relief camps. Please keep them, Camino de Vida, Robert Barriger and the people of Peru in your prayers.

Money Money

My dear friend, Natalie Spera, has recently posted some quite hilarious videos on her blog, which reminded me of this gem that I ran across about a year ago. I have watched this countless times and still find myself DYING of laughter. I hope you enjoy as much as I do.

L.A. Mission Team

I had the honor of driving a team of crazy Refuge kids to the New Orleans airport this afternoon. They are headed out to the L.A. Dreamcenter to do some outreaches to the community and represent Jesus any way they can - which I know they will do a great job of. We all need to be praying for them and the team that headed out for Cambodia today. I am so thankfull to be a part of a church that is reaching out and taking action locally and globally.

Submerge rocked my face off

Thats right, I don't even have a face anymore after Submerge. It was that awesome. Many of you may know that there was a family emergency before camp even officially started. The devil really didn't want me to be there. I had a hard decision to make, but after prayer and talking to my family, they wanted me to stay. There were times when I wanted to be home for my family, but after seeing hundreds of kids making decisions for Christ, I knew I made the right decision to stay. It was amazing. The spirit of God was so thick that I can't even describe it. It feels like I have a holy-ghost sunburn that I just cant shake. But, like a physical sunburn, a holy-ghost sunburn will fade with time. The only way to keep it is to spend more time in the SON! Come on somebody...
I really do want to thank everyone who has been and still are praying for my family. All the calls and encouragement has really helped a lot. God has put such great people around me that I am so thankful for. So thank you all - your prayers are pulling us through.