August 2026 Prayers & Praises

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.

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 the final mission team for this year arriving on September 7th. This team will be ministering to children in the local schools, ministering to the people being cared for at The Ruben House, and hosting the first sports camp that our ministry has ever done.

Please pray for us as we work to finish the construction of a home for a family in need in La Campa.

We have one crate remaining that has not yet been shipped to us from the U.S. Please continue to pray for favor as we work out details with the shipper and Honduras customs so that these items will arrive safely and soon without exaggerated cost. This is an ongoing prayer request.

Please continue to pray for Pedro, one of the long-term residents of The Ruben House. The last surgery to replace the stents in his kidney went well, however, there were significant post-surgery complications afterwards that are still being treated. Despite the stents Pedro’s kidneys are not functioning well overall and he has lots of complications due to his catheterization.

Please continue to pray for Oscar, a long-term resident of The Ruben House who had his leg amputated in May. He is doing well emotionally and spiritually, and working very hard to prepare for a prosthetic limb.

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 begin to make preparations for our year end trip to the states and as we start making ministry plans for 2027.

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 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.

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, from a fall that he suffered a few years back.

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 send rain to the nation of Honduras as we are in a severe drought. The capital city is having to ration water with some parts of the city only receiving water for a few hours per day once every 9 days. There are tight water restrictions in most of the rest of the country and varying amounts of rationing. In our area the rivers are nearly completely dry and most everyone has lost or are losing their corn and bean crops so it is very possible that there will be a much greater hunger problem than usual in Honduras later this year and lasting into 2027.

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 how strong Oscar’s faith has proven through an extremely difficult trial (see above), and how hard he is working at his therapy and exercise to get ready for a prosthetic leg.

We are praising the Lord that we 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.

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.

2021 Has Been An Incredible Year

Listening to the news and looking around our world it would be difficult to make such a statement. The pandemic is ongoing and seemingly without end. There are sicknesses and health struggles other than COVID to deal with. Inflation is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of our budgets. There is political change, strife and uncertainty almost everywhere. There is famine in places, ongoing wars and rumors of wars in other places.

But when we look up instead we see differently.

I lift up my eyes to the mountains; from where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.-Psalm 121:1-2

This verse has been at the top of nearly every newsletter for the last year or more and it is painted above the front door of La Casa De Rubén. The Lord who made heaven and earth has been faithful to help us, and because of His abundant grace and provision it truly has been an incredible year for FHD Missions Honduras.

• Because of your giving 11 families moved into new homes replacing those that were destroyed in the back to back hurricanes that hit Honduras at the end of 2020. We have plans and resources to build 3 more now that the rainy season has ended and we can send a crew and materials up the mountain.

• We stepped out in faith while lacking the funds and added three more outstanding students to our scholarship program giving them a chance to study and earn an opportunity for a better life.

• Our first two short term mission teams returned this year to minister with us in several communities and to finish the room addition at La Casa De Rubén.

• We celebrated the baptism of three new followers of Jesus in September at LCDR.

• In addition to Rubén and Rosalina, Bayron (12 years old) and Yovin (15 months old) began receiving care regularly through the ministry of La Casa De Rubén. Bayron is now taking his first steps in almost 6 years and Yovin is moving his previously paralyzed right arm.

• La Casa De Rubén received a donation of exercise equipment greatly improving our in-house physical therapy capabilities.

• Through a generous donation received from Mission of Harmony we were able to purchase four brand new wheelchairs, one of which was a pediatric wheelchair and two were reclining wheelchairs.

• In October we launched a matching grant fundraising campaign with a God-sized goal of raising  $100,000 to purchase the house we have been renting for La Casa De Rubén and begin construction for much needed expansion. We are happy to report that we have reached 96.8% of our goal only needing $3,200 more in donations to reach the finish line.

You have been a blessing to us and a blessing to so many others you may never meet in a place you may never get to visit. But through your prayers and financial support you are as big of a part of what God is doing in these mountains of Honduras as anyone else. A simple thank you does not seem sufficient but Jean and I don’t know what else to say, so thank you so very much. We are grateful for your friendship and your service to God’s kingdom through the ministry He has entrusted to us. Happy New Year!

-With our love in Christ, Greg & Jean

Expanding Our Impact-Meet Rosalina

Shortly after opening La Casa De Rubén last April, during a meeting with community leaders we were having at the house, we heard about a young woman named Rosalina. The person telling us about her said that his organization had helped her several years ago while she was still a student in school. While many years had passed and he lost track of her she had made a lasting impression on him. He couldn’t remember exactly where she lived, only that she was in a smaller community located somewhere near Caiquin.

Since we work with Pastor Jorge in that area I called him. He did not know Rosalina personally so we started to investigate. We learned the name of her community so we drove there and started asking around. It took a few roadside conversations but we finally found Rosalina.

We had to park on the side of the road and take a walk down a narrow, uneven trail, that was mostly dirt but with some rocks scattered here and there, to get to the modest home where she lived with her mom. But they weren’t alone as there were also some other little children, dogs and chickens running around. After finding her community, experiencing the trail to her house and seeing Rosalina in her wheelchair it became more clear why she was not getting the physical therapy she obviously needed.

When we met her she was sitting in her wheelchair outside working on an embroidery project. It was amazing to see the detailed work she was doing with her delicate hands despite the pain and the way they had become deformed due to the crippling arthritis. She told us that she sews mostly to keep her mind busy and pass the time, but also to have something to sell so that she can earn some money to live.

Sadly we were unable to bring anyone else into the house at that time but we promised that as soon as we were that we would contact her. By mid December we knew that we would be ready to bring others into the house in early 2020. The house was never intended to only be about one person but it took us a while to get everything organized and working well enough to be able to care properly for more people. The closer we got to being ready the more we talked and prayed about Rosalina.

For the followers of God there are no such things as coincidences.

At that same time as we were talking and praying about Rosalina we received a call from a doctor at the hospital in Gracias. The doctor wanted to know if Rosalina could come and stay at the house. At the time of the call Rosalina was in the hospital for the second time in just a few months being treated for a respiratory infection that was bordering on pneumonia.

Her doctor told us that the arthritis had so affected her posture that her chest cavity was compressed to the point that she could no longer breathe adequately. However, he also said that with physical therapy her posture would improve enough to significantly improve her breathing.

Before today it had been six years since Rosalina’s last therapy session at CRILE. However, because of La Casa de Rubén she will be able to stay in Gracias to get the care that she has gone without for so long. One of Rosalina’s sisters is staying at the house with her. Her sister will help care for her while staying at the house as preparation to care for her better when they return to their home near Caiquin.

During her session today at CRILE Rosalina began to learn and practice new breathing exercises. She also began to experience just how difficult the physical therapy is going to be because during the consultation and evaluation her limbs were moved in ways they have not moved in over six years. Despite the physical pain we believe that she began to experience the love of God in a new and practical way today.

So please pray for Rosalina as you join us in welcoming her to La Casa De Rubén!

Please contact us if you would like to learn more about how you can be a part of helping Rosalina and others like her.

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“I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come? My help comes from the Lord, Who made heaven and earth.”-Psalm 121:1-2