Dear Partners,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! for praying last week and this week. Your prayers have availed much. The Lord has done marvelous things. How awesome He is to us who love Him! The missionaries, unfortunately, did not get to come this week. They have been delayed about three weeks, but look at all of the wonderful things the Lord did:
The Lord raised two young women from the dead last week in Camalote.
On Friday, 7/7/2006 (notice the sevens), Pastor Eulalio Sanchez and his wife Yolanda were summoned to go pray for a lady about 28 years old in the neighborhood who had died a few minutes before. She had been dead for about 30 minutes, was cold, and was not breathing when Pastor Eulalio and Yolanda began to pray. They prayed for her for about ten minutes and she came back to life. She related that while she was dead she saw the gates of heaven, but they were blocked by an angel who told her she could not enter, but that she had to go back, becuause it was not her time. She was a Catholic and unsaved, but she and her husband gave their lives to the Lord right then. He had been a drug addict in the past, but got delivered that night. She is fine and is back working today. God is sooooo good. (I will try to get her photo this week.)
On Saturday night, 7/8/2006, the same church was having a service in Camalote (Fruto del Espiritu, Ministerio Nueva Vida), and a young lady of about 28 years old, a member of the church named Dunia was in attendance. She began to feel bad and left the service and went home and went to bed and died. She was very cold and not breathing when Pastor Eulalio and Yolanda were summoned and prayed for her. She came back to life and is back at work today.
This is the first time in the two years since I have been here in Honduras, that I have heard of people raised from the dead in this ministry. Pastor Eulalio, however, tells me that there was a third raised from the dead shortly before I arrived two years ago.
This is Dunia. The Lord raised her from the dead last Saturday. On the left is Pastor Eulalio Sanchez
and on the right is his wife Yolanda. They pastor the El Fruto del Espiritu church in Camalote, one of
the thirteen churches of Ministerio Nueva Vida here in northwest Honduras.
Fourteen women praying for breakthrough. Fourteen women of the Camalote church, El Fruto del Espiritu, are fasting and praying two hours per day every day for the church, for me, for this ministry, for money to fund projects, for the pastor and the church and for revival. They are especially praying for the Lord to fund the great tabernacle vision that I have related to you in the past ($350,000.00 is needed.). What a great sacrifice and a wonderful blessing to me and the ministry they are.
Part of the fourteen women with pastor Eulalio. They are fasting and praying two hours per day every day.
They are especially praying for the Lord to fund the great tabernacle vision ($350,000.00 is needed).
The Lord convicted a rich man last week who redicated his life to the Lord, and he wants to allow the ministry to use his land. Last week pastor Eulalio and I were in Guatemala. The Lord supernaturally led us to a coconut tree farm owned by Armando and Amelia Amado near Puerto Barrios. Armando professed to be a Christian but had not been to church for ten years. The Lord convicted him, and he re-dedicated his life to the Lord. His wife, Amelia, is a great intercessor and prayer, and has founded many churches in Guatemala. Armando wants to move to the capitol city (about 300 km. away), and he wants to allow the ministry to use his farm for Christian purposes. It is a beautiful place with 1500 coconut trees. He also gave the ministry 30 small coconut trees for us to plant along the road in the new revival center at Camalote. ($100.00 value.) See the photos that follow.
Armando and Amelia Amado on the right and Pastor Eulalio Sanchez on the left.
My personal testimony of healing and deliverance last week. Thanks to your prayers the Lord has been doing a supernaturally powerful work in my heart during the last week and a half. I have experienced an awesome work of the Lord in the areas of healing, deliverance from some very ugly "stuff" that had been plaguing me for many years, and a great restoration work in my relationship with Him. Praise the Lord! Only He could do such awesome things, and I give Him all the glory! What powerful breakthrough the Lord has given me. I am eternally grateful to Him for my life and for the great work He has sent me to do in Honduras.
The Lord answers prayer! Campo Alegre church is ready to begin work on new building. Camp Alegre is a small but very active church in the cane fields south of La Flecha, Honduras. They now have the use of the Ministry concrete block-making machine, and will begin to make concrete blocks very soon, so they can build a new building. They currently have an open-air galera. They need about $5,000.00 to build their building. Thank you, Lord, for answering their prayers.
Thank you, Lord: Camalote church begins construction on new building. Thanks to the graciousness of the Lord, the Camalote church began construction last week on their new 100' x 50' building. This will be the largest church building the ministry has in this part of Honduras. They need about $8,000.00 to build this building. Thank you, Lord.
The first three of 12 columns for the new church building at Camalote. Their Galera is in the background.
The Lord manifests breakthrough anointing at pastors' day of prayer and fasting. This past Sunday was a day of prayer and fasting for myself and all of my pastors, as we met in a beautiful fruit farm owned by Pastora Estella Reyes and her husband near Cofradia, Honduras. The Lord blessed our prayers in a powerful way, and I believe it was a time of great breakthrough and unity and harmony. The anointing was very, very strong as we prayed for breakthrough in revival and for the money to come in to purchase land and build churches, and all of the other things these pastors need. Thank you Lord, for a supernaturally great day of prayer.
Thank you, Lord, for new growth: new Camp Cielo church. I reported on this earlier, but didn't have a photo. This is one of the two new churches that have just started. This is the galera of Campo Cielo in the north part of Quimistan. It is pastored by Pastor Miquel Mirandez.
New galera for Campo Cielo church, north Quimistan. Pastor Miguel Mirandez.
The Lord blesses San Marcos church. Last Saturday night two of my board of directors (Pastor David Rivas and Pastor Eulalio Sanchez) and I visited the San Marcos church to bless them, and minister to them, and pray for them. The Lord manifested His presence as we ministered, and prayed for the people and laid hands on them. This church needs 55,000 Lempira (about $3,000.00) to buy a piece of land to build a church on. They presently have a galera on another person's land, and they have been praying and believing God for a long time for the money to buy land and build a building.
The Lord blesses us as I minister in 24 de Abril church. Monday night I had the privilege of preaching (without interpreter!, praise the Lord!) at the 24 de Abril church. The Lord blessed us with a good anointing as I ministered to the people. I give Him all of the glory! Without Him I can do nothing. This church needs 190,000 Lempira (about $10,000.00) to buy a piece of land to build a church on. They presently have a galera on another person's land, and they have been praying and believing God for a long time for the money to buy land and build a building.
Please help us. The Lord has done many, many more things, too, in the last week and a half, but there is just not time or room enough to relate all of them. God has been so faithful and so precious and powerful. I praise Him for His awesome work and give Him all the glory. Thank you so much for praying. God bless you all, and I know He is blessing you and will continue to do so. Please keep praying. I know many of you could afford to give money into this work. Some of you could even afford to fund a whole project. Please pray about sending us a contribution. It would be especially great to have your contribution each month. We especially need Bibles and teaching materials for children (in Spanish, of course). We can buy them locally, but need the money. These are some of the poorest people in Honduras in the second or third poorest country in this hemisphere. Please help. Please send your contribution (marked for NW Honduras) to:
While I am in the United States, my construction team is trying to get started with construction on the Tabernacle project in Camalote, Honduras. We need $350,000 to do the project, but had only about $3,000 to get started. I felt like if we could just get a good start on the foundation and get some concrete in the ground it would break the devil's hold on our finances and help bring in the money. However, the construction team has had many problems with suppliers and contractors, so nothing has been built yet. Please pray that they would be able to go forward with the construction and make the "principio" or beginning that we need. If you know how to do spiritual warfare, please do it. If not, just intercede, please.
God bless you all for praying. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person avails much.
James
P.S. Here is a photo of the sight as it is today after the land was levelled and cleared.
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Dear Friends -
I am now "officially" back in the office for the first time since May. I'll be a few days till I'm 100% up to speed, but don't hesitate to contact me if you need anything. I am sorry if you have had a hard time getting in touch with me these past couple months.
This summer was incredible. I returned just last Wednesday from our 2-week mission trip to Honduras. We took three adults and seven youth deep into the jungles of Honduras. After some extreme travel, including most of a day aboard dugout canoes, we had the privilege of preaching the gospel to a village that had never before been visited by a person from the outside world.
I hope and pray you are doing well, and look forward to seeing you soon.
THANKS,
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10/18 Well I just returned from Honduras and it was awesome! Here is Day 1 notes:
My Missions trip to Honduras Oct 9, 2005
This morning, Sunday is my 1st morning in Honduras, A rooster got me up this morning at 5:09 am. Didn’t that darn bird know how to tell time….LOL? I could not find the snooze alarm and he was crowing for about 30 minutes ( every 30 seconds)
Last night we were at Pastor Lito's church, and it had no walls. It is where the 3000 seat santuary is to be built. It was a very special night,and My 1st time to preach and minister overseas. I have been to Mexico a few times and this was similar.
The people were responsive, sincere and full of passion. During the service 3 dogs walked through and one decided it was time to water the altar. I guess he needed deliverance.
The worship was good and I asked the Lord to help me hear the words and sing along. He did and the presence of the Lord and the Holy Spirit was sweet.
It came time to preach and I just shared what God had put on my heart for these people. At the end many people came up for prayer and the annointing was strong. It was a joy, an honor, and a privledge to be there.
During my message I share a story recently heard. A friend of mine was with his Mother as she lay in her final moments. Just before she passed she died she cried out, “Who turned out the lights and why is it getting hot in here?” She then passed on. I pray that we will be the person who helped many not experience that dreaded end.
So my word and question to all is, “Who might be dying on on their way to that dark hot place in your world?”
You may be the ONLY Jesus someone ever meets. I love you and my prayer is that we all share the love of our Savior and when necessary use words…………..
In HIS love and Service,
Robert Hill
8/26 Letter from James
Dear Robert,
Thank you so much for praying. The effectual, fervent prayers of a righteous person avail much.
The person who came against me so hard has come to repentance and the Holy Spirit is working in his life to deliver and restore him. Your prayers are availing much with him. Thank you.
At the same time, the Lord is working in a powerful way in my heart, and giving me some much needed changes in my life. Thank you so much for praying.
Engineer Peredes still needs prayer. The 10 day period of prayer he requested will expire Sunday afternoon. I believe he will get the heavenly download of information that he needs to design an efficient roof support structure for us. Again, thank you so much for praying. Your prayers are precious to us.
Briefly, here is what the Lord is doing in Northwest Honduras. The Lord has spoken to me and to our pastor, Pastor Lito Sanchez, in the little village of Camalote to build a huge center for revival and for training soldiers for the Lord's end time army. The Lord supernaturally made a way for us to buy about 6 acres of land for only about $7,500.00 US. Then the Lord told us He wants us to build a large building for worship and training. It is to be a tabernacle-type structure (that is with a roof and supporting columns, but no walls. Open to the outdoors.). The vision of the pastor is to have a church of 1,000 members by February, 2006 and ultimately if will have 3,000 members. So we know the tabernacle must seat at least 3,000. I expect it to be able to seat about 4,000, and by the time we add balconies, to be able to seat 5,000. It will be a G-12 church that is a cell church.
We have sufficient land to park 60 buses (about 5,000 people) along the west side of the property. I believe the church will be open every night, and perhaps even 24 hours a day, with something happening all the time. Many, many people will come every night by bus. This will not only be a center of teaching and revival, but a center for great miracles and tremendous power and anointing from the Holy Spirit.
The Lord has provided us with a man to draw the plans and Engineer Juan Peredes to engineer the roof supporting structure and columns. The Lord has also provided, at very low cost, a pastor and his construction equipment to clear and grade the land. We broke ground on the land last Saturday, and the Tabernacle site appears to be nearing final grade. Then the crew will grade out the roads and level the bus parking area and the areas for the missionary house, the pastor's house, and an office building for my co-ordinators.
All of this could not possibly have happened without your prayers.
This revival center is one of many that the Lord is building in Honduras, and the prophecy we have says that on a certain day, 300 Christian brothers, full of the Holy Ghost and not afraid of the devil, will converge on central Honduras and will pray and the Lord will move to redeem all of Honduras in one day! I believe that means there will be thousands of people coming to the Lord shortly thereafter until all of Honduras is saved that the Lord wants to save. What a grand plan the Lord has! And what an awesome blessing to be chosen to participate in this great work.
I believe that the Lord is beginning in Honduras, because it is in the center of Central America, and that once Honduras is saved, the Lord will move to the surrounding countries and will eventually sweep throughout Central America and on into Mexico and South America. Wow! What a plan He has! And what a quick work He is doing.
The very last revival in Central America has already begun. It began in the New Life Ministries retreat that was held here last February. This is it. Jesus is returning soon. We must stay busy in the work of the Lord.
So, you see, your prayers are availing much more than you thought. Thank you so much for praying. Your prayers are precious to us, and your reward is both here and now and in heaven.
God bless you all,
James Young
Missionary/Apostle to NW Honduras
New Life Ministries International
Quimistan, Santa Barbara, Honduras, Central America
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