Mark Mueller : Honduras Mission Presentation November 20, 2005

Mark Mueller, a young missionary in Honduras, and Mark is from our congregation. Give it a round of applause for this missionary that God is using in Honduras. I know many of you know him and I have always invited Mark when he comes on vacation, which isn't really a vacation, it's more a time to get in touch with his supporters, and raise funds for his ministry, list other people who support you. We like it because this is a ministry born in León de Judá.

Mark came to the church, Meche how long, like 14, 15 years maybe? Not so much, 8? No, because you were in Cambridge, we have been here for 10 years, it has to be more than 10. How? No, because you were there in Cambridge when we were there in the city and we've been here for 10 years, so it's more, much more than ten years here. The fact is that, it doesn't matter, the important thing is that Marcos got to know the Hispanic world here in our church. The Lord put in his heart a desire to serve the Latino people and he learned Spanish with us. God called him to Honduras. We made a connection there with brothers and Mark has left his heart there in Honduras, and God uses him in many ways, in more than one way. God uses Mark in physical therapy. He is a physical therapist, and Mark could be making a lot of money here in the US, but God has put him to give his talents to the missionary world, to the Kingdom of God. And we want you to hear what God is doing through Mark in Honduras, but through you who are supporting him, and this is for our benefit and our encouragement. So listen to what God is doing through Mark.

Good afternoon, thank you very much, Pastor. Can you turn off the light please. I'm going to stand here so you can see the screen and I'm going to give you a report today from the ministry, which is called Brothers of Mercy. The ? that says: man, God has declared to you what is good, and that he asks nothing of you, only to do justice, send mercy and humble yourself before your God. As the pastor said, I am a physical therapist and I have a specialty with children and I have been in the jungle of Honduras since November 2003, I am living with the Amor Viviente church, building a rehabilitation ministry for children.

And speaking a little about Honduras. Honduras is a beautiful country, with mountains, forests and rivers, with beaches and islands, but Honduras is a country with great need. Most of the country is countryside with towns and villages, with people of limited resources, who have little access to medical care. There is little physical therapy in Honduras and in many places there is none. The vision of the ministry is thus, to train Hondurans in physical therapy for children. supporting institutions training their staff or students, supporting families with rehabilitation devices, projecting the ministry in the community, above all sharing the love of Christ. And I have been training Hondurans in physical therapy for children. Here are students taking classes, in a Sunday school classroom. The ministry works under the roof of the church where I serve. There are students here learning therapy techniques and my main task has been opening a small therapy clinic on the church premises. The training I do includes a practice where students learn therapy with me in the clinic.

The second part of the vision is to support institutions, training their staff or students. Here is the middle school of ¿¿? It is the only special education school in the jungle and they are José and Celia, who work in the school where they attended children but were not trained in therapy. José and Celia took classes with me, and now they attend 15 children.

I have also supported the university of Honduras. The university has a physical therapy program at the technical level, and I have participated as a speaker in their annual conference and every year I do an internship with the students in a clinic in the field.

The third part of the vision is to support families with rehabilitation devices. I have experience with devices that I order from different places and have given to families.

The fourth part of the vision is to project the ministry in the community. The church where I serve has a children's home called Casa Feliz. I have trained three people at Casa Feliz where 4 children are cared for. And I would also like in the rural areas to see children, but since my time is limited, my vision is to establish satellite clinics. Here is a new clinic, one hour from the jungle, and they are Elsa and Teresa, two or friends who took classes with me. They are going to start seeing children in a small clinic in their home.

This drawing shows you the network of clinics that I would like to establish. In isolated areas there are people who live with little contact, outside their town and who need as far as I want to see. One way to establish a clinic is to have therapy brigades. We had our first therapy brigade at Elsa and Teresa's house in August, 4 children came that Elsa and Teresa will attend. The brigade is a way of evangelizing that I want to develop for the future.

About the fifth part of vision is sharing the soul of Christ. Here we are praying for the children, trusting that the Lord will minister to the spiritual needs of the children and their families. Currently there are 17 children in therapy, 12 in the clinic that I started in the Amor Viviente church, 4 in Casa Feliz and one in Utiapa, where 4 more will continue. And now photos of the children we serve. Each child has a different diagnosis, many have cerebral palsy, the people you see in the photos are parents and siblings of these children, students, and people I have trained. I started this ministry from nothing, with just a call that I have obeyed. Thank you very much for your support.

I am going to Honduras as an extension of you, since not everyone can go, you send me through your prayers and offerings. It's actually what you do. God can use anyone in missions, it doesn't matter if they are young, if they are old, it doesn't matter what they have or what they don't have. One just needs to be obedient, start where you are, with what you have and trust the Lord for the rest.

I want to introduce you to Maira, 3 years ago, when she was 15 years old, someone tried to kill her with seven shots to the neck, she survived but she is paralyzed from the neck down. He lives at Casa Feliz where he trains people for his care. The therapy in her case is to maintain her body, because her problem is beyond remedy, but without therapy she would get worse. Someone sent me a wheelchair for Maira, before Maira stayed in bed, now she can participate more in the activities of the House. Maira's case is a good example of what you make possible. On behalf of her and all the children, thank you very much.

And for the future, I will continue with the vision that God has given me to train, support institutions and share the love of Christ. During my time here, we have been in the process of joining a mission. The mission is called Cure International, it is in Honduras in Santa Ursula and they do orthopedic surgery for children. I am going to serve with Cure and I will be able to continue doing the same and more. The ministry is going to grow a lot. This is something big that the Lord is going to use. And if you would like to support this ministry, you can get involved in prayer, monthly support and offerings. Thanks to all of you for your support in the past, your prayers and I still need people who can help me monthly or if you want to give an offering it would help me a lot.

And here is the street where I live in the jungle. Many people ask me what their life is like there in Honduras, how they live, where. Well, this is where I live. There are my clothes by chance, I didn't mean to put the clothes in the photo but...... and here I am on my bike. This is my transportation, so as you can see the needs of the ministry and mine are many. Don't worry, I'm already rich there in Honduras. I live with the minimum and if God touches me, I want to invite you to participate in this ministry. The hujieres have some leaves, you can raise your hands if you want to participate.

Let me add my own word of endorsement to Mark, on that, you see Mark, what he does, he does on barely a shoestring budget. We bless Mark. Our church gives money from its own resources, from the church treasury, brothers support Mark annually with small funds but each one is a great blessing. We encourage givers to continue to remember Mark always and others to join as well. Remember that it is not Mark that you are helping, you are helping Maira, for example, that beautiful young woman, paralyzed by 7 bullets. That young lady was simply in the wrong place. They were going to kill another person and look what happened to her. Mark has been a blessing, that wheelchair, I don't know who gave it, but someone has enriched the life of a person in an extraordinary way.

God is raising up a ministry in our church, missionaries, that we ourselves have not invented, but that God has brought to us, as we have asked him to do. Mark is one of those ministries grown here in León de Judá, a member of our church, God has raised up the ministry at the Shriners Institute for children who have extreme burns, who come here with their parents from Latin America and sister Marta Garcon, a member of Our church has been used to help those families and those children in Peru, in Honduras, in Guatemala to receive help from us and warmth and many even know the Lord.

The Lazos de Amor ministry went to the Dominican Republic this summer and 50 people were converted there, in different parts of the Dominican Republic, through a group of brothers like that, they are simply not pastors, they are not evangelists, God put it in their hearts to go to the Dominican Republic. In addition to this effort, there are two children who were living on the street for months, that their mother had abandoned them and a sister from our congregation, Arelis Guzmán, felt in her heart, she is a dentist and has the means to help these children, and now those children are in a family home receiving care and attention.

Brothers, this is the way God is using you to extend his hands of mercy to nations and cities. Mark is part of that miracle, so I encourage you to stand behind this man of God and he caught a vision years ago. I remember when we sat down to have coffee in a place there in Somerville and God put him there.... he shared that vision with me of what he wanted..... and we began to talk, to find out how to do it, and look where We are serving dozens and dozens of people there in Honduras today, and God is raising up this ministry more and more. We encourage you to support Mark Muller and others like him.

Let's bless him by praying for him and asking for more of God's anointing on his life.

Thank you very much, pastor, and in the pages you can see the different options. There is an option that says if you want more information, there are people who like how to pray, think about it. Well, you can put if you want more information, but the most important thing is to put your personal data in a readable way, because sometimes you can't read how it happened, so please put it clearly and I will be available here at the exit of the parking lot at a table, please stop by the table to meet us. Thank you very much for everything, it has been a blessing to be here, not only today but in these last 10 years, I have been blessed through this congregation. Thank you so much.

Glory to God. Father, we bless the life of Mark Muller, we give thanks for his hands that you are using to bless and anoint people in such need. We declare more of your anointing on him, Lord, more of your vision, more of your spirit, resources for the journey in abundance. Father, this morning we prayed and we repeat it, that you bring the resources to him. That he does not have to go looking for them but that he becomes something magnetic that attracts everything he needs to carry out his ministry. We bless you, Lord. Keep making your way before him and using him for your glory. Thank you for helping us to be part of your ministry because it is a great privilege. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen and amen. Glory to God. Have a seat, brothers. Thanks mark. We love you.

They saw the bike that Mark uses for his ministry. If someone wants to give him a homer, I think it would be very useful, maybe someone feels in their heart to bless Mark in some way so that he can travel more easily there in Honduras.

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