Journal » Missions
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Zenon and Tommy - Missionary Hermanos
I met Tommy Shields in October of 2001 at the DFW airport in Dallas. I had arrived early from San Antonio and went straight to the Toronto gate to get my ticket (before e-tickets) from Tommy Shields, the group leader. It was my second trip to Cuba with an entirely...
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San Pedro Del Norte, Nicaragua Part III
In the morning Sergio, who was to be the permanent missionary to San Pedro, came to pick us up. We were having breakfast so he sat and had coffee with us. He told us of a trip he made to Honduras on the northern border of Nicaragua. Sergio's story ...
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San Pedro Del Norte, Nicaragua Part II
After our time of preparation Lupe and Sammy took a dugout canoe with an outboard motor three hours downriver to another town where several pastors and lay workers were gathering for a training conference. There is very little opportunity for the training of pastors in this area, so the teaching of...
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San Pedro Del Norte Nicaragua Part I
Trips to Mexico or Nicaragua with Sammy are adventures in the true sense of the word; the work and the outcome is never clear ahead of time. He is pretty certain of the work he will be doing, that is training pastors and lay-workers, but the work of his companeros he...
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Tula Prison Mexico Mission
In the southern part of the state of Tamaulipas Mexico is the village of Tula; maybe it is more than a village, more like a small town. It is a quiet place; very clean, and the times I have visited it the weather has been cool; the air clean and...