Before going to Honduras, our experience in the states for 10 years was in home missions. Such as street outreach, a coffee house ministry, evangelism, and taking in problem teens. We have always felt called into the mission field, but the Lord didn’t open the door until 1989. At that time, I had my own plumbing business and we closed that down. I went to the Philippines for a short term to help out in a ministry. Our pastor went on a mission trip and made us aware of the need in Honduras and we felt that was where God called us. There was an existing mission compound that was abandoned but was set up as a medical clinic. It was run down and in need of someone to develop it and maintain it. So we were sent from New Testament Mission to work with Gospel Crusade in Honduras. They had about 150 churches and were in need of someone to help in their remote areas. So we have worked as a support ministry to them for the past 13 years. We started out in a village called Palacios and our first years we got the grounds maintained and up and running. Then we found and trained local people to work in the clinic. Afterwards, a young man from Atlanta came down and worked with us and we opened a bilingual school, which he ran and later became the principle of. Also, during those years, we worked with Gospel Crusade injunction with their churches and also have had short term bible institutes to train leaders. After several years there, we saw the great need for fresh water. Our clinics were a great help to the health problems in the areas, but we realized that fresh water was the prevention of many health problems. So we became very active in providing fresh water. We put in about 250 wells and trained local people to put them in. Palacios is composed of 3 culture groups: Latin, Mosquito Indians and Garifunas. We felt like the work was well established in the churches and on the mission compound and everything was running smooth. So we turned the work over to Drew Williams who was running the school and moved further out to the Mosquito Coast where there was a great need in the churches. The village was called Belen and we had spent about a year and a half establishing the compound. My present responsibility with Gospel Crusade is supervising the work in the area. Our vision for Belen is to provide potable water to the many villages along the coast. We are putting in full water systems to the villages. We also provide medical help as well as eye glasses, worm medicine and baby formula for malnourished babies. The area has a large land area scattered with small villages through out the back country. There are about 3 different denominational groups that I work with closely. I have an open door in all 3 groups to train leaders. We have a need to develop new methods to evangelize the outlying areas. We are starting a discipleship training program to train leaders to go into the back areas and minister.