I just returned home from a week and a half trip to prep this year’s projects, and boy do we have a couple exciting new places to go, along with some of the still exciting regions we have been going to for a while.
One new place is El Carbon in the Pech region of Olancho, the wild west of Honduras. The Pech are an indigenous tribe that has been marginalized ever since the Spanish arrived 500 years ago. Many still speak their own language, but it is rapidly being lost because of transportation and technology. 
We will be taking a LAP (Limited Access Project) group into the area and stay in the homes of families from the church. This is a new area of ministry for the North Coast of Honduras, and El Carbon is the center of the Pech culture. They already have small groups started in other Pech villages farther back into the mountains where the people are even more isolated. Pray for God to continue to work through Francisco and Jorge, the two pastors evangelizing the Pech.
The other new and interesting place I visited was Tablones, in Intibuca, Honduras, near the border with El Salvador. It is located about 4 hours from the nearest paved road on the Honduras side, so I decided to go from there to El Salvador, to see if it would be faster to go that way. Sure enough, after about two hours we ran into another paved road. So we asked around how far to the Salvadoran boarder. Everyone just looked at us funny, because we were already there. We crossed over the border and didn’t even know it, because there wasn’t an immigration office or even a welcome sign. Along the way we had a big tire blowout, but God kept the old spare strong for the rest of the trip. We also got to stop by the old Radio Vencedor, the voice of the guerillas during the Salvadoran Civil War, which has a fascinating museum and even better tour guide who was shot in the head during the war.
I thank God that he is working through many national ministers to take the gospel to places that are very inconvenient for the rest of the world. Please pray for the groups that will be going to these and other places this summer, that they will be witnesses for Christ, and that they will see the Hondurans’ witness of Christ back to them. Pray also for Lesly as she is getting some major dental work on her front 3 teeth over the next few days.
Mike