April - June 2022
Ministry Update
So far, this summer has been a fantastic whirlwind. We’re halfway through the year with 6 groups come and gone and just as many (and more!) to come. Some of these teams taught Vacation Bible Schools at rural and local churches pastored by students or professors at SEPE, the seminary on campus. Others worked on construction projects remodeling the dorms or finishing the top floor of Clinica Betania, the medical ministry of Iglesia Bautista Betania. The latter paved the way for new treatment rooms that incoming groups are now using during medical brigades to offer optometry and dentistry services.
It was also MEDA’s special privilege to host the first on-campus conference since Covid, taught by Dr. Josiah Grauman of Grace Community Church on the subject of The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit. This was such a joy, seeing MEDA in its element with a campus bustling with 260 attendees from all over Central America – all eager to hear the Scriptures and worship the Lord.
Another great joy and privilege has been working with our interns. Both our one-month and three-month interns attend the same church, and Grace, who is joyfully serving currently, is the sister of our first gap-year intern from 2021. Our first intern of the year, Hudson, made a poignant comment on the most important thing about missions – the takeaway that we desire every one of our interns to go home with:
When I am here in Honduras, everything around me is different. The people I know are not here. The language here is not my own. … Even the weather is different. But … [the] most important thing has not changed: that is Christ and His Word.
It is a scary thought knowing you are dependent on something or someone, because if that person or thing changes or leaves than we are lost. But … the more I depend and wait on God, the more I see my neediness. The more I find my identity and satisfaction in Him, the more I want to. The more I explore the depth and riches of our God and His Scriptures the more I realize there is more to discover.
This is the same attitude that the old hymnwriters had when they penned the words of our age-old hymns – a reverence for the character of God as He is found in the Scriptures. There is something of the unfathomable riches of Jesus Christ that is lost in our modern efforts to describe Him, and we would do well to recall the significance of the time and effort that bygone hymnwriters put into presenting a praise offering presentable to God, who alone is worthy of our worship and honor.
How true it is that the Lord never changes. Seasons change and people come and go – but He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. That is the truth we can place our hope in now and will enjoy in greater and greater measure for an eternity in heaven. May the richness of true theology put a new taste in our mouths, as it has for me and so many others this quarter, and may we turn afresh to Christ and His Word with a reborn desire for an ever deeper and sweeter love and worship of our great God.
Prayer Requests
As I enter the final stretch, please be praying for me to finish my education and prepare to roll out new programs at MIM with excellence, asking the Lord to guide and bless those efforts.
Please also pray for the opportunity the Lord has given me to get more involved with the church sound system and livestream. As I continue to learn more about this practical ministry, please pray that it would go well and continue to be a great blessing to others as more people are able to sign onto our livestream and partake in the church service.
Please also continue to pray that the Lord would provide support as He has been so faithful to do every year, and even pray about the possibility of personally supporting me on a regular basis.
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Thank you for your continued investment into my life and this ministry, both prayerfully and financially. “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all” (2 Corinthians 13:14).
Kenny Fuller
