We don’t want you all to feel left out.
So here is an update. In the span of four days we have had the privilege of attending a conference on the book of Ephesians and celebrating two birthdays.
MEDA, the conference center and seminary, is located in Siguatepeque halfway to the capital, Tegucigalpa. We have visited the complex twice before to see our friends, the Patterson’s. You can read more about our prior visit here. But this was our first conference at MEDA. The theme was the book of Ephesians which was wonderfully expounded upon by Pastor David Diez from Miami.
Our reasons for attending the conference are varied. For one, it’s always nice to see the Patterson’s. Mark and his family have become welcome friends here in Honduras. We were fortunate enough for our visit to coincide with the Patterson’s foster daughter’s, Iris’, birthday. Nine years old.
Second, if we are going to serve our local pastors well here through conferences and the like, then we should make a study of an institution like MEDA that has been hosting quality conferences for years. We learned a great deal during our short time there. Third, it was a pleasure devotionally and linguistically to listen to Pastor David plow through my favorite epistle, in Spanish.
Finally, Siguatepeque feels like paradise compared to where we are living right now. The evenings at the conference were in the high 60′s and the temperature during the day never rose above the high 80′s. The heat index here yesterday was 113. Need I say more?
And to top off the terrific conference we returned home to the news that a close friend of ours was celebrating her birthday as well. So, no sooner did we unpack our rental car before we dashed to the store for cake and ice-cream. The party felt very Baptist – devotional first and sweets to follow.
If you would like to see some more photos of the past few days, follow this link for a slide-show.
Luke
Lynn
Tell Christina a belated happy birthday. She looks good for only 19
Love to all, Pamela
It was so nice to see familiar sites and friendly faces. It looks like you had an exceptional week.
Love you, Mom
Great conference site and wonderful birthday party. It was nice to view the pictures and see the pastors being ministered to.
I hear you re the heat. When we moved here from South Dakota in July of 2001, I truly felt like I had arrived in Central Africa. I’m better accustomed to the heat now but a heat index of 113 is tough!
How is your Spanish coming along. It was great to see all the books available for the pastors in Spanish. Hopefully, they are good ones theologically.
All the best,
Barb Coleman
Barb, The Spanish is coming. It actually really helped to attend a conference held entirely in Spanish. And about the books, they are top notch. Many of them were either written by MacArthur or people who hold views very similar. There were even some copies of the Excellent Wife.
Pastor Luke & Lynn, thank you so much for the lovely photos! I am happy that you were able to take a break from the heat and enjoy some sweet Christian fellowship. Ruth tells me that your Spanish is “nothing short of amazing” and I just know it won’t be long before you will be doing your own sermons in the native language. How blessed you are. Please know that you and all of the saints there are much in my thoughts and prayers. Love, Ferne
Wow, the conference sounds exciting, and I am so thankful you all got to enjoy some cooler weather! I chuckled as I read “the party felt very Baptist”…great, but too true! I am thankful to the Lord for these blessings, it sounds like things are going really well.