On May 19^th Pentecost Sunday the boys youth group returned to the mountains of Tiger Park. At the entrance to this park is a village of people who are known as the “forgotten people” as one woman who told us. We asked why, “are they the forgotten people” and she explained that when churches, government agencies, and other people come to help people like them they always start at the base of the mountain and never make it to the top. I smiled and said, “I’m sure glad Moses made it to the top of the mountain to receive the Ten Commandments from God and also was able to be exhorted by the presence of God.” The woman said, Amen! She thanked all of us for coming once again and taking time to share the Gospel with the community and be a blessing to them. I asked in what kind of blessing we have been. She said the type of blessing is exhorting them by loving them for no reason. This impacted all of us. The boys walked the one dirt road knocking on doors and announcing that they had a puppet show for the children. When the group got back from announcing there was a show they witnessed children putting on their new clothes that they received from their first visit back in April. They also witnessed the children coming down from the other side mountains and from shacks to come and listen to a story the boys had for them. While the kids were coming the boys handed out Christian Pamphlets in witnessing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The youth group went with the mind set to build relationships with the children and also with the adults so in the future months they can start giving those Bible studies and witnessing Jesus Christ. In the top photo shows just a small part of children that came out.

Over 100 children came out with some parents to listen to the story of the Prodigal Son being played out with our puppets in a small soccer field.

The children laughed and sat with that intense look of what was going to come next in this story. After the story was told Carlos came out from the black curtain and asked the children questions about the story. While Carlos was asking questions, the rest of the boys went and handed out coloring books on the story of the Prodigal Son.

I told our youth to go and sit with the children and spend time with them and love them and listen to them. One youth said, “Mike is this going to work?” I smiled and said, “It worked on you and hundreds of others when we came 9 years ago and you didn’t know how to receive us or know what to do with us.”So the youth group spent an hour coloring and asking the children what do they want to become when they get older.

The children bonded well with our youth group as you can see in these 4 photos. Many said that they wanted to become pastors, others lawyers, and doctors. The majority wanted to just study and graduate and try to earn a living to help their families who have struggled for so many years in farming. After leaving the boys wanted to do more. They said, Mike we have more pamphlets, bibles, and coloring books with crayons can we give them to the people at the base of the mountain as well. So that is what they did. They handed all that they could to every person walking by. 

They told each person, “We love you in the name of Jesus Christ.” When we arrived at the Barrio Rincon they ran up to the girls youth group and witnessed everything that Jesus has done. It moved the girls so much that they will be starting a ministry with the blind home in Tegucigalpa. Our Lord is amazing in how He has moved all of you to sow seed into this ministry and allow us to raise up young men and women to share the Gospel of Christ. The work is in the Valley for the majority of time but also in remembering those who are forgotten.