Look For Me In the City DUMP

[Apprehended]

If you come looking for me, you will not find me in my comfortable home in Rockland, here on the ranch. I will not be here to tend to the cattle, the horse, the 35 chickens or the 8 guineas. You will find me in the dump ministering to the needs of Jesus, my savior who has identified himself with these little children in the dump. You will find me in Tegusigalpa Honduras city dump doing what I can for them.



Tegucigalpa's city dump is an enormous land fill that covers acres of mountainous land about six kilometers outside the city limits. Trash trucks and other vehicles arrive in a steady stream from sunrise to after sunset, bringing the city's daily refuse to the ever growing mountain of trash.

But a mound of trash is not the only thing that is constantly growing at the city dump. Daily, more people call the dump home...1,200 people at last count. These are the poorest of the poor, those who can't even scrape up enough capital to sell candy or clothing in the cities bustling outdoor market. The dump is poverty's last stop, it shows human misery in its starkest form. The people fight with the buzzards to locate the "best" trash. Such a thing would be hard to believe, except for the pictures that don't lie.



The children of the dump work as hard as the adults do. They have two main goals each day. The first is to fill large trash bags with as much plastic or paper as they can. Then, near to the end of the day, men drive into the dump with pick-up trucks and buy the bags full of recyclable material. The middle men usually pay fifty Honduran centavos per pound, or about three U.S. cents. The kids can make a dollar on a good day. Their second goal? To find their breakfast, lunch and dinner among the trash.

I will spend the month of September in Copan Honduras in language school. I will need this to be able to minister the true bread that came down from heaven that gives life to the whole world. You will find me feeding the hungry, cheering the sad, ministering to the children and tell people of God's wonderful love and the only plan of salvation of Him is mighty to save.

It is my desire to eventually erect an orphanage where I can house, feed, educate, clothe and prepare children for this life and the life to come too. It is an ambitious dream, but with God, all things are possible to Him that believeth.

I covet your prayers.

[Tina]

Bro, I admire people who are able to go on these kinds of trips. This is something I'd never be able to do.

I am adding this to my prayer journal so that I can pray for you daily.

[Rebecamia]

Wow! This is an awesome mission, and my prayers will certainly be with you!

[rgcraig]

So sad.

Praying that God uses you to bless these people.

[Apprehended]

Originally Posted by Tina

Bro, I admire people who are able to go on these kinds of trips. This is something I'd never be able to do.

I am adding this to my prayer journal so that I can pray for you daily.

Thank you Tina...

Your prayers are greatly treasured. They mean an awful lot. I would be afraid to go without them.

There is such a thing as PURE religion. Since there is such a thing as PURE religion, the alternative to that is IMPURE religion.

I've been talking about that a great deal lately, as things have begun opening up to me in a new light. I have been a very religious man all of my life, but I am not sure how pure it has been all of my life. Simply because someone has the Holy Ghost does not mean that they are practioners of PURE religion. They will become that if they are truly led of the Holy Ghost, the Spirit of God. Then, as many as are led of the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. It takes the leading of the Holy Ghost to become SONS of God. I want to be led of God and be a practioner of PURE religion.

James said, "PURE religion undefiled before God is this, vist the widows and fatherless IN THEIR AFFLICTIONS and keep yourselves unspotted from the world."

Let us practice what is PURE...pure religion.

[Apprehended]

Thank you Rebecamia and sister Craig.

Journalist who have been there call it the closest thing to hell in this life.

[Falla39]

God bless you, Bro. S. Been thinking about you a lot, knowing where
you were going there. May the Hand of Almighty God be with you as
you labor in the field of the Lord. Is Sis. S. there with you! Give her
our love!

Falla39

[Esther]

Will be praying. IF you get an opportunity while there post us a report.

[Cindy]

Praying brother that God will use you to lead more souls to Him.

[Sherri]

I SO appreciate what you're doing there. This sort of thing is my true heartbeat and I would love to be right there with you.