Our clinic work finished, this final full day was set aside for clean up, inventory of remaining medicine, and a short afternoon excursion. We went to an old Spanish fort. Our tour guide listened to us sing in the chapel of the fort and then had us stand outside to hear how the acoustics carried out into the courtyard. Facing the back wall he began singing incredible and powerful operatic songs. We had to sing again and then he sang again. We won’t remember much concerning the history of the fort, but we will remember always the beauty of the shared songs.
In the late afternoon we returned to San Pedro Sula to spend the night near the airport. We stopped briefly outside the city at the river of me to take pictures of the “river people” area.
We ate at the hotel where we had attended the international worship service on Sunday. On the top floor of the hotel a fine steakhouse provided us with an open air dinner overlooking the entire city of San Pedro Sula, the renowned city of wickedness in our time. From view to view I moved to pray over this city. Pray with us for this city to repent of the greed and corruption and murder that permeates this country and region of the world. We slept in a bread & breakfast owned by the same man who owns the rice factory in Seis de Mayo next to Gathering Hearts Mission which will be the production center when the electricity gets connected. This same owner is responsible for building the little church near the mission where we ministered last Sunday afternoon. Before heading out to the airport our final stop was an hour in the market. We thought our mission was complete. But behold, God was not finished with us yet
(Written now by Bill Dudney) At the market waiting for us was Marco Gomez, the manager of the hotel from Puerto Cortes, 45 min away that we left yesterday. He found a paper in one of our rooms with our itinerary and knew we would be at this market at this time. So when we arrived, he was waiting to see us and to talk to me about the Lord and the emptiness he felt in heart after I talked to him yesterday in the hotel lobby and gave him one of our witnessing tracts that we brought. I told him then about knowing Jesus in a personal way. He said he thought he was a Christian yesterday. When we were leaving the hotel I was telling Sarah that I believe Marco is going to become a strong believer and influence many for Jesus. And we both said to him that we will email him and stay in contact. So suddenly he appears in San Pedro Sula wanting to talk to us. He said this morning he was compelled to come and talk to us about the emptiness in his heart. So we talked some more about the Lord and being in relationship with Him and he was eager to pray a prayer of commitment to be a real follower of Jesus and let Jesus be Lord of his life. We all rejoiced in this and feel in our hearts that the Lord is going to use Marco in a great way. It was a true miracle of the Lord directly speaking to Marco after our witness encounter in the hotel lobby. It is so joyful and fulfilling to see Marco come so eagerly to Jesus with this deeper commitment. I gave him what follow up materials I had and he plans to come to Gathering Hearts to help with translation work with other groups in the future.