Missionary Partners Foundation
A Faith and Prayers Ministry

Located on the Honduran island of Guanaja there is a village named Mitch in memory of the terrible hurricane that swept through and did such tremendous destruction in Honduras and Nicaragua a few years back.  Thanks to volunteer builders and donations received from local folks as well as gifts from supporters abroad, this school has been provided with classrooms and the basics to make possible educational advancement for a group of more than 100 primary and secondary students.  Recently the 2010 school year began although it was necessary to trim back on teaching staff.  The local Bay Islands Mission has the responsibility of supervising this institution, but the amount of financial support coming from the mission is practically non-existent. Read the rest of this entry »

Some of you who read these missionary letters are well acquainted with what it means to have a special needs child.  Fatima’s son, Yurgen Leonel has cerebral paralysis.  How his mother watches over him with such loving care.  Without a complaint, she just faces each new day overcoming the obstacles in their path. The parents brought their boy to Costa Rica in order to get better medical attention for him than they had in their homeland.  Read the rest of this entry »

Paula Perez traveled sixty miles from Puntarenas to see us recently.  She had heard about the work Missionary Partners is doing in behalf of folks in dire need.  This poor woman is living in the home of a daughter.  They sell tourist trinkets to survive.  Paula suffers diabetes mellitus type 2 as well as pancreatic complications.  The ulcer on her left leg is ghastly and makes it very hard for her to walk. Read the rest of this entry »

“Jesus now returned to the Sea of Galilee, and climbed a hill and sat there.  And a vast crowd brought him their lame, blind, maimed, and those who couldn’t speak, and many others, and laid them before Jesus, and he healed them all.  What a spectacle it was!  Those who   hadn’t been able to say a word before were talking excitedly, and those with missing arms and legs had new ones; the crippled were walking and jumping around, and those who had been blind were gazing about them!  The crowds just marveled, and praised the God of Israel.”

Mathew 15:29-31
The Living Bible

Dear Missionary Partners,

Do you suppose it is childish for a certain geezer missionary to spend time day-dreaming?  But if such behavior raises eyebrows, then what’s the good of reading and re-re-re-reading Bible stories, and especially those that tell about the spectacular healing miracles performed by Jesus?  Oh I suppose some learned professionals can read those accounts with deadpan faces and about as much emotion as a fence post, but I cannot!  To tell the truth, I want to somehow step into my worn old Bible, squeeze past the letters and ink, and burst through to the “inside” where the telling is no longer in some reader’s monotone but in living full-bodied surround-sound, with 360 degree 3-D reality.  Naturally, that comes with all the appropriate biblical language skills, flowy garb, fish smells, and curious coin-collector’s bring-back purse.
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