Jarrod and Allison Brown
Sol and Levi
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Honduras
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This is Jarrod and Allison Brown. Their children are Sol and Levi. Jarrod is the director of Mission Lazarus and Ally is a nurse at the Mission Lazarus clinic. Together they are leading a large effort to empower the locals to do the local work in Choluteca, Honduras, and its neighboring communities. His efforts include a clinic, educational efforts, and Refugio Las Palmas.
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April is the hottest and driest month of the year. It’s also the end of the dry season. Daily temperatures in Choluteca will top 100 degrees. Since it is the driest month of the year it’s a great time to drill a well. If you can find water in the driest month of the year you can be sure that you’ll have a good well for many years to come.
Last month we drilled a well in the village of Los Colorados. Los Colorados is a new church that was actually planted by the church in Limon (Ciudad Nueva). The village of Los Colorados was established 10 years ago after hurricane Mitch. Since these 100 families were relocated there they have not had access to water and what water they have been able to access has not been clean. Alberto Vallejos the local preacher worked hard to help the community get organized. We agreed to drill the well on the church property and put in the distribution system if the community would donate the labor for digging all of the ditches. At 427 feet we finally hit a strong vein of water, 70 gallons per minute strong.
Last month a number of new construction projects were begun including a building in village of Santa Anita, retention wall for the church in Namasigue, and classrooms at the church in Duyure. We also finished a number of projects. A new house for a needy family from the church in San Marcos was finished just in time to have a dry house for the rainy season. The “Wellness Center” at the Mission Lazarus Refuge was also finished. This clinic will serve all of the kids of the children’s home as well as the villages on the surrounding mountains.
In February we planted nearly 25,000 tomato plants. The harvest from these plants will help offset the cost of operating the Mission Lazarus Refuge. By April the plants were loaded with blooms and small green tomatoes. We plan to harvest tomatoes at the end of May.
Our two sewing schools are up and running and making a difference in the lives of many ladies. Most of the ladies who attend these schools do not have skills that will help them provide for their families. These schools teach them a valuable trade and are a testament to how the church cares for the communities they serve.
Every month all of the preachers we work with come together for breakfast, work meeting, and time to share stories, difficulties, and pray together. In April we all met in Namasigue. The meeting was a great time for all the guys to share and be filled up by their peers who know and understand the stresses of ministry. Their labors are showing fruit. In the first four months of this year there were 91 baptisms at the congregations that Mission Lazarus works with. God has truly blessed the efforts of the hard working men and women who spend countless hours spreading God’s word in their villages.
Lastly, we had a great time playing with all of the kids from the Mission Lazarus Refuge at our house. A stream runs in front of our house so a day was spent playing in the water, eating hotdogs, and enjoying the sounds of kids having fun. The kids from the home go on a field trip every month and we always look forward to the annual trip to our house.
May will mark the beginning of the rainy season as well as the beginning of the summer group rush. We look forward to the encouragement that the summer groups bring to our American team as well as to the local Christians.
Jarrod W. Brown
Mission Lazarus Inc.
Apartado Postal 79
Choluteca, Honduras
www.missionlazarus.org
www.missionlazarus.blogspot.com
Office Tel. 011.504.788.2751
Cell Tel. 011.504.9970.5906
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