A Cool Sunday Morning in Honduras

Today is the combined worship service that follows the seminario. Guests who were present for seminario but have not yet begun the journey home, along with members of many of the Tegucigalpa area churches, will assemble on the Baxter campus to worship–perhaps as many as 700-800 Christians. The singing is always superb, the prayers heart-felt, the communion a special reflection on God’s gift of salvation and also his gift of relationships between brothers and sisters.

The morning is brisk, and the hearts of Christians sing as the birds have been doing since about 2 a.m. The day will become warm, God will be recognized, respected, and thanked–in prayer and praise, in hearing his word and sharing fellowship. Then we will go home. Some may say nothing has changed, and that those who assemble for worship will go home to the same old problems. But we will know in our heart of hearts that much has changed–because we are empowered in our weakness to reflect his glory.