This is from a Pastor who came down to Honduras in the end of Jan. the beginning of Feb. with Mike Holland, to do a week of evangelism with us with a group of 4 other people.
The man with the straw in his mouth is Pastor Kurt, the one who wrote this letter.
Hey STEP girls,
WOW!!! What can I say, I had an incredible time in Honduras with all of you ladies. I took a little bit of time earlier today to check out some of your blog sites and your xanga sites, and I was very impressed by what I read. God has done some incredibly powerful things in each one of your lives. And I want you to know if I were your youth pastor, I would be overjoyed after reading more about each of you and especially after this week and seeing you girls minister the way you did. I am still truly amazed that all of you are only 18, 19, 20, and 22!! You are all mature way beyond your years.
You know I wanted to share something with you before I left, but I never really got the chance. So I’ll share it with you all now as an encouragement!!
I came to Honduras not really knowing what to expect and hoping that God could use me in someway to encourage you girls, and to be a source of refreshing to you in the midst of your intense missions work. And honestly I am so used to giving to teenagers in ministry, listening to them, praying with them, and just giving my whole life to serve them, so I was excited to be able to do that with all of you. It seems like I’m always leading someone whether teens or youth leaders or parents, and trying to give of myself in this way. So I guess I really expected God to pour out my life into all of you. But I was completely surprised because I walked away from this week feeling very refreshed, encouraged in my faith, excited to continue doing ministry, with a greater passion for the lost, and just uplifted by God’s spirit.
Seeing your faith in God, each of you expressing your desire to love and serve God, and love people was exciting to me. Hearing the stories of how God brought you to STEP and where He is leading you was inspiring to me. And just worshipping with you and praying with you all brought great joy to my heart. I was completely blessed by this trip, by the people in Honduras, and by your spirits. Thanks for being obedient to God to be a part of STEP, to go to Honduras, and giving up a year of your life to serve God. And thanks for sharing your lives with our team, for allowing Jeff, Meredith, Gene, Mike, and me to be a part of your lives. And thanks for opening your hearts up to us and welcoming us to Honduras for the week. Maybe it’s not supposed to happen this way, but I could tell that God used all of you to impact my life this past week. And I believe that you will all continue to see God do some incredible things through your lives, just as we did this past week in Las Mercedes!!! Keep striving to Honor God in all you do and He will bless you.
So that’s what I wanted to tell you. Otherwise I’m glad to be back home with my wife, Megan!! I was very glad to see her at 2:00 AM in the morning on Saturday. However, I do really miss Honduras, the language, the culture, and the people I had a chance to meet. And I especially miss the warm weather, I would take 80 degrees and sunburn any day over 13 degrees with a wind chill of close to zero!!! And I heard that in Ohio, they had a cold day off of school today because the temperatures were in the negatives and wind chill was really low!!! Yeah, it’s crazy cold here. So be glad you get suffer for Jesus in Honduras!!!
Oh yeah, I also had the chance to share about my trip with our teens in Sunday school yesterday morning. It was really awesome, but it was also difficult showing some of the video from the Crematorio and talking about some of the stories.
If you didn’t notice already, I attached several pictures to this email, so that you could see some of them. Also, if you’d like to see more of my pictures from Honduras you can check them out at this website. If you’d like more pictures, let me know. Or I can just post all of them on the website, and apparently you can even use this website to order the pictures.
http://www.ringo.com/profile/kletner.html
I am hoping to get some of my videos onto the computer and then I’ll post them as well so you can see them. And eventually I’ll copy them and maybe I can send them to you as well.
You’ll have to let me know how things are going. My prayers will be with you this week as well.
Blessings,
Kurt Letner
Youth Pastor
Mechanicsburg Brethren in Christ Church
Letters like this one were great encouragements to us and makes us remember why we are doing what we are doing.
The man with the straw in his mouth is Pastor Kurt, the one who wrote this letter.Hey STEP girls,
WOW!!! What can I say, I had an incredible time in Honduras with all of you ladies. I took a little bit of time earlier today to check out some of your blog sites and your xanga sites, and I was very impressed by what I read. God has done some incredibly powerful things in each one of your lives. And I want you to know if I were your youth pastor, I would be overjoyed after reading more about each of you and especially after this week and seeing you girls minister the way you did. I am still truly amazed that all of you are only 18, 19, 20, and 22!! You are all mature way beyond your years.
You know I wanted to share something with you before I left, but I never really got the chance. So I’ll share it with you all now as an encouragement!!
I came to Honduras not really knowing what to expect and hoping that God could use me in someway to encourage you girls, and to be a source of refreshing to you in the midst of your intense missions work. And honestly I am so used to giving to teenagers in ministry, listening to them, praying with them, and just giving my whole life to serve them, so I was excited to be able to do that with all of you. It seems like I’m always leading someone whether teens or youth leaders or parents, and trying to give of myself in this way. So I guess I really expected God to pour out my life into all of you. But I was completely surprised because I walked away from this week feeling very refreshed, encouraged in my faith, excited to continue doing ministry, with a greater passion for the lost, and just uplifted by God’s spirit.
Seeing your faith in God, each of you expressing your desire to love and serve God, and love people was exciting to me. Hearing the stories of how God brought you to STEP and where He is leading you was inspiring to me. And just worshipping with you and praying with you all brought great joy to my heart. I was completely blessed by this trip, by the people in Honduras, and by your spirits. Thanks for being obedient to God to be a part of STEP, to go to Honduras, and giving up a year of your life to serve God. And thanks for sharing your lives with our team, for allowing Jeff, Meredith, Gene, Mike, and me to be a part of your lives. And thanks for opening your hearts up to us and welcoming us to Honduras for the week. Maybe it’s not supposed to happen this way, but I could tell that God used all of you to impact my life this past week. And I believe that you will all continue to see God do some incredible things through your lives, just as we did this past week in Las Mercedes!!! Keep striving to Honor God in all you do and He will bless you.
So that’s what I wanted to tell you. Otherwise I’m glad to be back home with my wife, Megan!! I was very glad to see her at 2:00 AM in the morning on Saturday. However, I do really miss Honduras, the language, the culture, and the people I had a chance to meet. And I especially miss the warm weather, I would take 80 degrees and sunburn any day over 13 degrees with a wind chill of close to zero!!! And I heard that in Ohio, they had a cold day off of school today because the temperatures were in the negatives and wind chill was really low!!! Yeah, it’s crazy cold here. So be glad you get suffer for Jesus in Honduras!!!
Oh yeah, I also had the chance to share about my trip with our teens in Sunday school yesterday morning. It was really awesome, but it was also difficult showing some of the video from the Crematorio and talking about some of the stories.
If you didn’t notice already, I attached several pictures to this email, so that you could see some of them. Also, if you’d like to see more of my pictures from Honduras you can check them out at this website. If you’d like more pictures, let me know. Or I can just post all of them on the website, and apparently you can even use this website to order the pictures.
http://www.ringo.com/profile/kletner.html
I am hoping to get some of my videos onto the computer and then I’ll post them as well so you can see them. And eventually I’ll copy them and maybe I can send them to you as well.
You’ll have to let me know how things are going. My prayers will be with you this week as well.
Blessings,
Kurt Letner
Youth Pastor
Mechanicsburg Brethren in Christ Church
Letters like this one were great encouragements to us and makes us remember why we are doing what we are doing.
Here is a pictures of the group that came with Kurt
from left to right it is Pastor Kurt, Gene, Pastor Jeff, Meridith and Pastor Mike Holland.
from left to right it is Pastor Kurt, Gene, Pastor Jeff, Meridith and Pastor Mike Holland. They were introducing themselves to the church in Kennedy that we attended.
This is our Pastor Marcos from Nicaragua telling the church what a great man of God Pastor Mike Holland and His father. The mans head that you can see the back of is a man that my team of people visited and invited to church during the week of evangelism. It was so great to see some of the people show up that we had ministered to the days before.
