KidStory Trip

May 2-8, 2018

Dear friends of From Hand to Heart,

I hope you and your loved ones are well and blessed with the richness of the very Presence of God!  We had a great KIDStory* childrens’ worker training in San Antonio de Cortes, Honduras May 2 - 8! It was much better attended than we ever hoped or imagined. We had 32 trainees from 9 different churches! Steve Nine, our trainer is an excellent communicator and the KIDStory materials are unique, powerful and, we believe, will prove very effective in producing eternal results! It was so well received, we are looking at dates in the near future for another session in San Antonio de Cortes and several other Honduran towns for new trainees and for an advanced class for those who attended this session to dig deeper into ministering God’s Word in childrens’ ministry. At the close, we had tearful testimonies (not the norm in this stoic culture) of gratitude for new ways to help children who live in generational poverty to know Jesus through knowing His Word. Another real success is that about 40% of the trainees were guys, some in their late teens, one guy in his 50’s and all ages between, including several of the Pastors (we had three Lady Pastoras)! In a culture that is increasingly fatherless, this is a HUGE praise (when groups of boys were asked who they would most like to personally meet, it was not sports heroes or musicians as would be expected. Overwhelmingly their response was their desire to meet their own fathers; most had never had contact with their biological fathers – tragic!). KIDStory could provide ways that men of differing ages could be “Adoptive Dads” to kids, providing teaching tools to help introduce them to their Father God in Christ Jesus using His precious Word! Please pray and believe it will be so, Amen.

Plans are coming together for Lanny’s Project: Logistics discovery visit to Belize, Central America, June 30 – July 5 for an October 2018 CHIA Medical, Dental & Optometry Mission, the Project: Evangelize Revival Team outreach in partnership with Pastor Jacob Lujan, Son of God Ministries, San Jon, New Mexico, January 23 – 28 in San Antonio de Cortes, January 29 – February 2, on Roatan Island, and the Project: Logistics prep for the CHIA Medical, Dental & Optometry Mission, February 3 – 10 (excursion R&R on Roatan February 10 – 13). I will update you as these opportunities develop.

Please remember our new Project: Nourish childrens’ feeding program in your earnest prayers. We have an opportunity that is SO beyond what I could have imagined. It will be a GOD-SIZED blessing if He deems us worthy, WAY bigger than my “Pay Grade”, to repeat a famous comment, that will bless thousands of desperately poor children! Please, please pray.

As you can well imagine, these awesome, growing opportunities have commensurate costs that will and are quickly outdistancing our Operation: Hand Up finances. I would simply ask for your help. God already knows the plan and how it will be supported (Where God guides, God provides!) and He has ALWAYS provided by touching the hearts of people who hear and respond. I simply ask for your help and I humbly thank you for your faithfulness in providing the means to offer a hand up to those living in generational poverty! Great things are ahead!

I pray and trust our Lord will bless and keep you in His care.

In Kingdom service,       Lanny

*KIDStory is a ministry of Kids Around The World, www.kidsaroundtheworld.com