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Need - $8,600
Received & pledged - $8,600.00 (as of 10/17/2025) - Fully Funded One of our longest-serving pastors and church planters in Honduras is Wilson Cerrato. He and his lovely wife have two grown daughters who live and serve Christ in Spain, and their third, still with them, is soon to graduate from high school. His effectiveness is such that over the years, one of our Board Members, pastor Steve Ware in Orlando, has provided him with two motorcycles. Two, because he wore out the first. And my pastor, Don Prosser, also a Board Member, led our church years ago in providing funds to build a Touch a Life feeding center, which has since outgrown the facility and now feeds the children at the school across the street. Most of the kids there attend his church, as do the teachers and principal. Currently, Wilson pastors his church, high in the mountain village of Sabaneta, and has started another church in a village higher up called Chikistepi. (I love saying that word!) He also pastors a church I started in 2014 in Suyapa and oversees our ministries in Guaricayan and Zurzular. As if that is not enough, he also teaches at a local Baptist Bible Institute. Now you see how he wore out the first motorcycle. On my last Sunday in Honduras, we attended his morning service. From there, we walked (and drove) probably 3-4 miles up and down the mountain to a creek that had been backed up, where we witnessed the baptism of four adults. Recently, Wilson has been fighting a problem that I thought was resolved several years ago. I suppose you could say the problem was bigger than he thought, and he did not want to tell me that it had been unresolved for a long time. Do you want to know more? Like a few other homes in Sabaneta, Wilson’s house is on a hillside, and with abundant rain, mud has been pouring into his house. Several years ago, he built a wall to stop the mud flow. Still, over the last few years, with unusually abundant rain, it threatened to wash his house down the mountainside. I saw this in 1998 while living in Honduras, and Hurricane Mitch killed some 13,000 souls, mostly with mudslides. Two-story houses were covered entirely, and you could see arms and hands reaching out of the mud, grasping for anything that might keep one from drowning, though unsuccessfully. I don’t want to think of Wilson’s family enduring such an end. Because I asked, he revealed that the problem still exists and that the cost to fix it is roughly $8,600, which involves sinking steel and concrete posts deep into the soil and constructing a strong wall capable of withstanding the pressure to connect them, as well as multiple drainage systems. All this must be done professionally and is at a rate far less than what it would cost in America. So, if this is the type of project that interests you, and you can help, please send your donation or give online at: Our entire Honduras team will be grateful. Jon Nelms PS I hope I explained the problem and solution correctly. I am no engineer and tried to relay what Wilson told me. Besides his ministerial work, he has long been a contractor, and I have confidence that he knows what is needed, even if I explained it poorly. |
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The baptism. Unfortunately, half of the new adult converts were unable to attend as COVID-19 was circulating again. Wilson has his hand raised in prayer; his helper from Chikistepi wears a black shirt. Rayan Silie, our new youth leader, is in red and was invited to help folks in and out of the water, as his son looks on from a rock ledge above.
