From Dickson To Honduras
Last week a group of seven from our Cross Point Dickson campus visited Honduras: Walter Stephens, David Faulks, David Ford, Millie Ham, Cindy Pulse, Sara Stephens, and Erin Stephens.
The group was on a medical mission trip where they dispensed about $5000 worth of medicine. They also saw over 1,000 different patients!
Here are a few pictures they took. For more details, you can CLICK HERE and read Chad Robert’s blog, he’s the Dickson campus pastor.
Between this trip and your upcoming trip to the Dominican, it sounds like the Lord is using you all in tremendous ways in the lives of people who need Him the most. Thanks for inspiring others by doing what we’ve been called to do!
Wonderful news…after a day of not so wonderful news. I love being reminded that God is fresh….that He is always leading and guiding His light to serve, and that some people are extending themselves in such sacrificial way. I’m so thankful to be part of an amazing church. You can mark my word….I plan to start going on some of these trips!
I went on a Honduras mission trip years back. We all emptied our suit cases and left everything behind for the people. I was the last to leave. I was talking to the resident missionary Vickie Fox.
A guy from our team came running back. He had forgotten to give his shoes to the mission. Vickie shared that one of the Honduran men had just come to her and was in tears because he had been praying for a pair of shoes and had not seen his prayers answered.
The shoes that were forgotten were the exact size for the Honduran that was praying for shoes.
Isn’t God wonderful!
God is totally FRESH!!! I went to Honduras when I was in High School…it was the first mission trip God called me to and He pulled my heart then and now and I don’t think I ever looked back. Yay for God doing incredible work through you guys! Thanks for sharing this.
Children of Promise
“Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise”. {Galatians 4 v 28}.
When God looks at this old world, He no longer looks upon it like He did in the days before His only Son was crucified at Calvary. For Christ’s sacrifice on Calvary gave birth to the new covenant or testament, which He wrote on the hearts of men who accepted Christ as Lord and Saviour.
No longer does He see tribes and races of people as such, for now because of Christ’s sacrifice He sees only the children of promise and the children of the bound. Let me explain,
God states clearly in scripture that the children of God are those who have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, regardless of race or gender, they are the children of God, yes the children of promise. You see it is written, “And if ye be Christ’s then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to promise”, {Galatians 3 v 29}.
Abraham had two sons, one by a bondwoman called Agar, and another by a freewoman called Sarah, as it is written, now these two sons represents the two covenants.
The first son Ishmael of the bondwoman represented Jerusalem, which is now in bondage, which also represents the old covenant, but the freewoman’s son Isaac represents the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the new covenant.
All God’s people are one in Christ Jesus, who are under the new covenant. Under this covenant there is no longer Jew, Gentile, slave or free, men or women, for we are all one in Christ. “For ye are all the children of promise by faith in Christ Jesus”, {Galatians 3 v 26}.
Now God’s plan for the people of Israel is the same plan which He is using for the whole world, and that is that we must all repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour.
There is no other plan for salvation, only through Jesus. Who was crucified for our sins and rose again for our justification, and who is alive forever more. Praise be the wonderful name of Jesus. As it is written, “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved”, {Acts 4 v 12}.
As Isaac was, so are we the children of promise, no matter what nation we are from, God considers us all equal and precious in His sight. So precious are we that He sacrificed His only Son for each and everyone of us. So, let us all stand together as, the children of promise.
I would like to state that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and many more in Israel are likened unto an olive tree which also represents the children of promise.
We who believe are grafted into that tree, and so we become one with them, and are known as the true Israel of today.
Now today there are still people in Israel who are chosen by God according to election of grace who will be grafted back into the olive tree, which represents the children of promise.
We must pray for them, that they will see Jesus, for it is written, “There shall come out of Zion the deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins”, {Romans 11 v 26 & 27}
So dear saints, let us always pray and standby Israel, for I believe that there are many yet to come to know Jesus as their true Messiah. God bless Israel
This is my dream job.
Heidi Reed
I have a friend who is a chaplain in the Air Force (my husband is retired AF and we still live arond the base here in NE) and he is currently in Hondurous ministry to the military community, but also is visiting communities up in the mountains. Our church recently sent him an offering to buy supplies to take on his mountain hike to pass out as they witness about the gospel of Jesus.
Very cool. Great job Dickson..