Prayer Requests
The need is great for teaching and proclaiming the true gospel all across the western mountains of Honduras. This need is so much greater than any two people can accomplish so please join us in praying Luke 10:2 which reads, “And He was saying to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.;” We believe this is a prayer the Lord will answer so we are trusting Him to provide the right person or people to come serve Him here with us. Update/Praise: It looks like God is in the process of answering this prayer and we should be able to share more details by the end of the year.
Please pray for Jean and me, and the leadership of this ministry, in both the U.S. and Honduras, for wisdom as we think and plan strategically about how to go about fulfilling God’s plans and purposes that He has for us and the people He loves and created who live in this part of Honduras where we serve.
Please pray for us as we work to finish the construction of a home for a family in need in La Campa. There is not much left to do but we are struggling to find the funds we need to push this project across the finish line.
Please continue to pray for chronic health situations with some of our family members stateside. Please ask the Lord to give us wisdom to know what we can do and when we can do it.
Please pray for Jean and me to stay healthy so that we can continue to serve effectively.
Please pray for Jean and me as we are making plans for our year end trip to the states, and as we start making ministry plans for 2027. Please pray for the Lord to provide us new opportunities to share with others about the great things He is doing through the ministry He has entrusted to us.
Please pray for the continued spiritual growth and development of everyone at The Ruben House.
Please pray for the health and well-being of the patients (Ruben, Rosalina, Elias, Pedro & Oscar) and the staff (Marcos, Mauricio, Prudencia, Sandra, Mirza and Ana) at The Ruben House.
Please pray for our employee, Mirza. Just in the last month her family has suffered the unexpected deaths of her father in a car accident and then just the other day one of her sisters which was also completely unexpected.
Please pray for a man named Luis who came to The Ruben House for his first two week stay in August. He suffered a stroke some time ago. He will be returning to The Ruben House for additional therapy in November.
Please pray for a young boy named Oscar. We have been assisting him with exams to try to figure out why he can’t walk, although not being paralyzed. After a few more exams we are still not sure what exactly the problem may be but some things have been ruled out at least.
Please pray for Vicente. Vicente had his leg amputated in March of this year. We were able to deliver a wheelchair to him and begin making plans to help him prepare for a prosthetic leg.
Please pray for the Lord to send us a new part-time nurse assistant/therapy technician. This is an ongoing prayer request as it is proving very difficult to fill this position.
Please pray for Sulmy, our newest scholarship student, who has started classes at a university in Santa Rosa where she is pursuing her dream to becoming a civil engineer.
Please pray for us as we continue to help family members who can no longer live independently and need varying levels of health care and assistance.
Please pray for the Lord to continue to send rain to the nation of Honduras. The drought conditions have lessened tremendously but there was still much loss of crops
Praises
We are praising the Lord for His ongoing goodness and faithfulness to us and the ministry He has entrusted to us. Things are rarely easy but God is always with us, providing and making the way.
We are praising the Lord for an excellent summer of ministry with the mission teams who came to serve with us. There were 30 salvations and many who rededicated their lives to the Lord, and some who have returned to the church after a time away.
We are praising the Lord for a completely successful first ever sports camp hosted by a short-term mission team in September. This team also ministered to children in the local schools. The Word of God was shared with all of the children and teachers and was well received.
We are praising the Lord that the final crate we have waited on for so long finally arrived.
We are praising the Lord for bringing nearly every one of our patients through some very difficult health challenges over the summer.
We are praising the Lord that we still have wheelchairs, walkers, etc. that we can give away to help people with physical disabilities. We are grateful for those who donate and those who help secure these donations so that we can be a blessing to others. Not only that but we are already receiving messages that more wheelchair donations are being made to us in the states!
We praise the Lord for each and everyone who prays for this ministry and supports this ministry by giving of their time and financial resources, and in other ways. We can’t do it without you.
Praise the Lord that He did start sending the rain in September. Much of the country is still in some level of drought conditions but that has improved significantly.