Two Worthy Programs

2 PROGRAM PROPOSALS NEED YOUR HELP

1. Songbook Project
Just as in the States, there are much newer and upbeat songs being sung in the churches now. We have obtained a printable copy of the 45 page compilation, but printing and binding costs $2 each copy. There are now 60 churches in the mountains. If each received only 20 copies, the total cost of the "Songbook Project" would be $2,400. Perhaps congregations or individuals can adopt a certain number of congregations at $40 per congregation.

2. Opportunity to learn useful skills
Francis Roll, 68 years old and a member of the New Hope Church of Christ (Iglesia de Cristo Nueva Esperanza) is a certified teacher of Home Economics courses and has volunteered to travel to mountain villages, free of charge, to teach the people craft skills that can be sold for income. But the cost of her materials needed to teach the crafts, to supply each student with materials to make their first project free of cost to them, and for transportation to and from the mountains by bus will run approximately $300 a month (with her traveling to the same community 4 times in the month and changing locations after 4 weeks).
Francis has a great love for this work and taught for 20 years in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras. She wants to teach others how to teach others while she is still able. We highly commend that attitude.
Note also that Francis is very active in her congregation, both leading Bible studies for the women, encouraging those who are struggling, and teaching the same skills we hope she can teach in the mountains, on Sunday afternoons to those in her congregation. She is also a current participant in one of the introductory computer classes taught at the MPRC. And while her hands and her fingers struggle with learning to touch type and to understand all the new concepts she is learning, she is always eager for the challenge. We think she is a jewel.
Perhaps congregations or individuals can adopt a certain month or a certain mountain community at $300 for each community project.

If you are able to help with either of these projects, please send your check with the project designated to:
Mission Point Resource Center
P.O. Box 1232
Millbrook, AL 36054

Photos from the class in Las Delicias and Nuevo Progresso. Click on the photo for a larger version. Also please ignore the time and date stamp on the photos that have them. They were really taken the week of July 5th of 2009.

Sometimes in Honduras it is just more pleasant to be outside.
		Some of the products made in the class at Las Delicias. The church in Las Delicias is an older congregation in Olancho, having been started in the 1980s. They are a major influence for good in this mountain community.
		A big smile from one of the students in the class. This teen's brother is an evangelist for Predisan. He was one of the two preachers that were high-lighted in the article Why are They Smiling? I guess it runs in the family. From the right the participants are Elba, Adelia, Kendra, Mirna, Sindi, and Lixi
		Working on linings for the purses.
Working on linings for the purses.
		Some of the products made in the class at Las Delicias, Coyumel, Olancho, Honduras.

Francis demonstrating a method of weaving for the class in Nuevo Progresso, Catacamas, Olancho, Honduras. This congregation was just started early in 2009 and is growing spiritually, in its service to the community, and numerically. I wonder it there is a correlation there?
		Ladies from the community of Nuevo Progresso trying the process for themselves.
		More demonstrating by Francis. The church in Nuevo Progresso does not have a building. They are meeting for worship and Bible classes and taking this class under a covered porch at the home of one of the members. Actually since the congregation has grown so rapidly, most of the members sit out in the open and leave the 'covered' seating for visitors and the older women.