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Heart oFalanPAGE 2
Guitars ForGodPAGE 5
Cetram BrazilPAGE 7
dreamCastersPAGE 11
tHeJourneyPAGE 12
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Cover photo: Heidi Winter and Toms, a
chief of the Tolupan tribe.
Inside cover photo: New Frontline
missionaries, Greg and Jean Hines.
Publication editors: Cassi Sherley and
Elizabeth Pearman
Fs 2013 ScJUNE
7-15Alan & Heidi to Honduras with
New River Community Church and
Eagles Landing First Baptist
7-July 7 ESL Teaching Team to Honduras
15-29 Elizabeth to Honduras for
Storying with Tolupan
15-29 Luis & Greg to La Campa, Honduras
29-July 7Alan, Heidi, & Elizabeth to
Honduras w/ Beulah Baptist Church
JULY
6-13 Harry to Save-R-Kids, Guyana with
Dogwood Church
13-27 Luis & Greg to La Campa, Honduras
with First Baptist Church Atlanta and First
Baptist Church Kennesaw
20-25 Heidi & Elizabeth to Mahaica,
Guyana
25-Aug 4Alan, Heidi, & Elizabeth to
Brazil with Manna Church
AUGUST
5-Sept 25Alan, Heidi, Elizabeth &
Storying Team to Mabaruma, Guyana
SEPTEMBER
7-19 Luis to Nicaragua with First Baptist
Church Atlanta
21-Oct 8 Luis and Greg to Honduras with
First Baptist Church Atlanta
OCTOBER
10-18 Heidi, & Elizabeth to Mahaica,
Guyana with First Baptist Church Atlanta
Little did we know that a
short-term mission trip with Luis
Chavarria to Costa Rica in 2008
would be the beginning of a long-
term ministry partnership with
Frontline Missions (FM).
Shortly after this
trip, Luis asked us
to lead a mission
team to Honduras in
2009. By the end of
the trip we fell in love
with the indigenous
Lenca people ofHonduras.
Over the next
several years, we could no longer
be satisfied with short, one-week
mission trips. This was when we
began to hear the still, small voice
of the Lord calling us to full time
ministry in Honduras.
The more we learned about
the ministry of Frontline, it became
evident that the Holy Spirit was
leading us to join with them to
spread the love of Christ through-
out the world. We officially joined
FM in April 2013 and will continue
to develop the
church planting and
discipleship ministry
with the Lenca
people.
Throughout our
journey in missions,
the Lord has beenfaithful to provide for
us in the past so we
know we can trust Him to provide
for us as we go forward. Jean and
I ask for your prayers as we transi-
tion into full-time ministry and
make plans to relocate from
Kennesaw, GA to La Campa,
Honduras in early 2014.
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A sense of anticipation and
great concern flooded over me. It
was eleven oclock at night and we
were sent with two police officers to
ensure our safety while walking to
the only church for more than
12,000 people in a slum within the
city of Manaus, Brazil. Mario brought
me here to decide if we wanted to
return with some youth and a
medical team. I told the pastor that I
came to observe, pray, and ask God
for guidance. God spoke loud and
clear, but not like I expected.
Upon entering the church, we
were surprised to find it filled to the
max with people praying and
worshipping God. For over six
months the church had gathered
monthly to pray, fast, and worshipovernight as they beseeched God to
send help to reach their crime-ridden
slum for Christ.
Immediately, people noticed the
American and began to dance with
excitement, shouting out, God has
answered our prayers and has sentHis angel. I had been called many
things, but an angel wasnt one of
them. One thing was for sure; I was
not about to tell them that their cele-
bration was in vain and that I had not
been sent by God to answer their
prayers. The Lord continued to con-
front me regarding my selfishness as
I exited the building.
A four-year-old girl crawled out
from under a house, ran up to me,
wrapped her arms around my leg,
and began to cry. I thought to my-
self, Why me? There are six others
here. Why didnt she run up to one
of them? As I picked her up, she
nestled her head into my neck and
continued crying.
To my amazement, over sixty
children followed her lead, crawlingfrom under the houses and standing
in a single-file line, waiting for me to
hug each one. One by one, I hugged
each child as I struggled with the
offensive smells and filth that cov-
ered most of their bodies. Suddenly,
I froze. The next child smiling at me
was only wearing a small pair of
shorts and was covered with large,
oozing sores all over his little body.Turning to the pastor I asked,
Whats wrong with him? He replied,
He is dying of AIDS.
I argued, No way, Lord, am I
going to hug him. There is no way to
hug him without touching the sores!
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mission of AIDS was largely
unknown and shrouded in fear.
Looking at his dancing eyes and
sweet smile, I was confused. I turnedto the pastor and asked, If he is
dying of AIDS, why does he have
such a big smile? He replied, Two
weeks ago Randall accepted the
Lord and he hasnt had any pain
since.
Immediately, Matthew 25:40
echoed in my mind, Truly I say to
you, as you did it to one of the leastof these, my brothers, you did it to
me. No longer was I being asked to
hug a dying child, but I was being
given the honor and privilege to hug
Jesus himself!
I picked Randall up as we both
cried and he buried his face into my
shoulder. What I learned that night
was that wherever the Lord leads
me, fear and self-centeredness
cannot have a place.
Four months later a team of 42
eager missionaries arrived to find
that the city had constructed show-
ers, clothes washing stations, and a
youth center; in addition, they had
organized a food program for the
homeless children. The families of
the slum had created a community
watch group and had run out the
drug dealers. Theft was replaced byfaith and hope as the kingdom of
God triumphed over darkness.
Today, the former slum of San
Francisco is a middle class neighbor-
hood with numerous churches and
the once small Assembly of God
church is a large, thriving ministry.
How did this all take place?
First, God heard the fervent
prayers of a small congregation.Then God networked a church, two
mission agencies, a community, and
a city to accomplish His purpose to
expand His kingdom.
I look back over the years and
see that this story has repeated itself
over and over. The year 2012 was no
exception. This past year Frontline
Missions (FM) has partnered withMESEF (Missions without Borders),
Grace College of Divinity, and Manna
Church to enable CETRAM to
graduate its first class of indigenous
students in Boa Vista, Brazil. FM has
birthed two new organizations
Dream Casters and Transformational
Development Systems to see the
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dreams of those students to bring
hope and change to their com-
munities become a reality.
In Honduras, FM has partneredwith Beulah Baptist Church,
Redeemer Lutheran Church, New
River Community Church, Eagles
Landing First Baptist, First Baptist
Church of Atlanta, Crossroads
Church, Landmark Christian School,
an IMB missionary, and a coffee
broker. Together we have reached
the Tolupan and Lenca tribes with
the Gospel, started a coffee co-op,trained leaders in Bible and coffee
production, built stoves and installed
chimneys, worked on two schools,
and helped plant several churches.
In Korea, FM partnered with
Every Nation Church of Seoul, South
Korea and Serving Life International
to train leaders for East Asian coun-
tries. These relationships were instru-
mental in the conception of
Windswept, whose purpose is to
serve persecuted peoples and
rescue those hunted down by
human traffickers.
As the body of Christ, the only
means to lasting change is through
working partnerships. The days of
doing it alone are over. I dont need
to know how to do everything or to
have every angle covered because
through faith in God and trust in my
brothers and sisters in Christ, we can
accomplish the task of the Great
Commission. We might find our-selves in uncomfortable situations,
challenged beyond our comfort
zones, but the Lord will give us the
players needed to see His kingdom
advanced if we look beyond our
weakness to His Body, the Church.
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I had to say something. I
couldn't let this go. With my heart
beating out of my chest, my hand
went flying up.
"Yes, Heidi?
"I want the first 10 guitars to go
to Brazil!! As I glanced around the
room at their surprised faces, I
continued, We at Frontline Missions
have an indigenous training center in
Brazil and we have to put guitars into
the hands of the graduating
students!" I could not believe my
own boldness. Surely this outburst
was not coming from me; God had
to be stirring my heart. After all, only
He could bring such a dream to
pass.
In the midst of over 60 people at
a home group meeting, Eric
Esparzas response was, "We are
just getting started as a ministry and
only have a little money but we will
see what God wants to do." If Eric,
as the president of Guitars for God,
and his family were willing to trust
God to do great things then so was I!
So the prayers began...How crazy
was my request and how much cra-
zier it would be if we really did hit a
"homerun" with this one.
Before I knew it, Eric was calling
me to announce the wonderful news
that he had enough money to buy
the guitars. God be praised for
bringing such an outlandish prayer to
pass. We coordinated with Cleudes
Silva, the worship leader at CETRAM
training center in Boa Vista, Brazil, to
collect the names of the students
who had already begun learning
guitar and the villages that they
would be taking these prized
possessions to after graduation. The
fun had only just begun.
The logistics of getting these
guitars to Brazil from the US was not
an easy task. Rebecca, Eric's 15
year-old daughter, stepped up to the
plate to begin connecting the "bat"
and the "ball" as she directed what
would make up the guitar "pack-
ages," what store they would be
purchased from, and who would be
picking them up.
On my end, I set up those
"catching the ball" and instructed the
various players on how they were to
carry these precious commodities
through numerous airports and taxis
to finally get them safely "home" to
CETRAM. What an honor to assist
Guitars for God in beginning to fulfilltheir mission of supplying guitars to
worship leaders worldwide so that
they can share the Gospel of Christ
through worship and praise.
Wow. Who would have known
that one could dream so big with
God? Who would have known that
night at Bill Huse's home group that
such an outrageous prayer request
was going to fulfill the very will of theAlmighty by connecting two
ministries in the U.S. for His purpose
a continent away? After seeing
Gods faithfulness to fulfill the extrav-
agant dreams that He places in our
hearts, I continue to "pray that I can
open my mouth in boldness for the
sake of the Gospel of Christ.
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I watched the reality of what I was asking play
across the two students faces. For Johanson and
Peter, these guitars were not only their prized
possessions, but also key tools to share with their
community all that they had learned during their
time at CETRAM
Bible School for
indigenous students
in Brazil. Their facesdisplayed their
conflicting emotions
of confusion over my
request, loss of a
prized gift, and
finally, trusting
submission to their
spiritual fathers
request.
I watched with a
fathers joy and pride
as Johanson and
Peter obediently
placed their guitars
into two other
students hands, not
knowing that something greater was coming theirway. Johanson and Peter had dedicated themselves
for months to learning how to play the guitar so that
they could lead their own people in worship upon
their return to their community after graduation. They
had received these guitars as gifts from Christians
they had met on a mission trip who recognized their
desire to play.
Now, they had given them away, knowing they
would probably never receive gifts like these again.
They gave their classmates a hug and managed to
smile as they saw the joy on their classmates faces
at their new, treasured guitars.
I thanked the
two young men and
asked them toreturn to their seats
as we continued
with the service. A
few minutes later,
my wife, Heidi,
brought in eight
beautiful, new
guitars and set them
in front of thestudents. She had
been working and
praying with Guitars
for God for months
to provide these
prized instruments
for the indigenous
students at
CETRAM. Johanson and Peters eyes widened asthey wondered if any of these guitars were for them.
Then their faces lit up with joy and excitement as thei
names were called to receive yet another guitar as a
priceless gift. Tears filled my eyes as I realized that
Johanson and Peter had each received much more
than a guitar that night, but a priceless lesson on
generosity and trust in God.
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2012 was a landmark year both for Evangelical
Mission Without Borders (MESEF), Frontline Missionsministry partners in Northern Brazil, and the Indigenous
Training Center (CETRAM) in Boa Vista, Brazil.
After twelve years of intense struggle and opposi-
tion, the Lord has truly blessed the ministry and
CETRAM graduated its first class of 21 students in July
2012. These world changers are truly having major
impacts in the indigenous communities in the state of
Roraima, Brazil and southwestern Guyana. Most of the
students arrived at CETRAM with only a sixth gradeeducation, but after two years many are writing papers at
a college level. In this years magazine, we feature a
couple of the students to give you a glimpse of what the
Lord is doing in and through them in the jungles and
savannahs of South America.
At CETRAM we have developed a well-rounded
curriculum that covers both biblical studies and practical
training in areas such as: finance, leadership, computer
skills, construction, agriculture, aquaculture and manage-
ment. In the biblical studies we emphasize application
and thus much of the training is patterned around Bible
Storying. As the indigenous peoples are natural story-
tellers, this allows them to learn the Word of God easily
and teach those who can read and those who cannot.
This summer (2013), Elizabeth Pearman and a team
of three American women will be training twelve students
from CETRAM how to develop forty-two Bible stories
cross culturally in Warau, an indigenous language of a
people group in northwestern Guyana and northeastern
Venezuela. There are over 50,000 Warau people living in
this part of northern South America. The team will work
with eighteen Warau speakers for six weeks to record
these stories and teach them how to share the stories in
their communities. These stories will be used for evan-gelism, church planting and discipleship within the vari-
ous Warau communities.
The twelve CETRAM students participating in the six
week training will not only learn the stories, but will also
be equipped to reproduce this training in many other
indigenous tribes and communities.
Please remember to hold this team up in prayer
especially from August 5th to September 22nd while
they are in Mabaruma, Guyana. If you would like prayerupdates regarding this training, please contact the
Frontline office by emailing info@fmusa.org or by calling
(770) 774-0641.
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Alcoholism, drugs, going to wild parties,
fighting, feeling a deep sense of loss, nightmares ofdepressions and demonic oppression, very
religious, attending services every Sunday in
desperate hope to ease my conscience of guilt
and shame for the past week; [this] was a normal
way of life for me. These are some of the remarks
made by Romario concerning his former way of
living before meeting Jesus.
Romario, a native Macushi Indian, a graduateof CETRAM, was born and grew up in an indige-
nous village in the country of Brazil. His village is
the administrative center of twelve other villages. In
these villages there arent any evangelical
churches. The entire region is controlled by a
dominant religious group through a network of
foreign religious leaders. For decades, community
life and living has been under the dark shadow ofreligion.
With head looking down and a sense of hope-
lessness, thinking of taking his own life, a crushed
self-image and suffering from deep wounds from
being maltreated by his father, Romario arrived at
CETRAM in search ofa better way of living. Upon
his arrival he most willingly accepted Jesus as his
Savior and friend. Then the long process of changebegan; he began by feeling free from the past of
guilt and shame.
At the community of CETRAM he experienced
deliverance from horrible nightmares and demonic
oppression; these were replaced with peace of
mind and a guilt-free conscience. He felt valued by
the family of CETRAM. His self-image changed as
the Holy Spirit clarified his position in Christ. His
love for Jesus and the lost in his community grew
as he studied the Word of God. Out of this love a
vision was birthed to reach the youth by using
Scriptures to communicate life-impacting truths.
Life for him at CETRAM was transforming, and
despite struggles he remained committed to
completing his training.
Returning to his community on his first mission
trip he was welcomed by a religious leaderaccusing him of dividing the community. He calmly
responded that he was bringing Jesus to the
village and not a religion like the leader. Fury and
anger erupted from the leader, From this day on
and forward you are excommunicated from the
church; you are a heretic and bound for hell. Not
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but at the same time refusing to
kiss the hand of the religious
leader, he knelt down calling on
Jesus and began to pray openly
for his village, asking Jesus toforgive the religious leader. The
leaders of the community were
amazed to see his new humility
and boldness in confronting the
religious leader. That day his
father and mother gave their lives
to Jesus. Thus began a work of
salvation in his village, which has
continued to increase to thisdate.
The transformation in
Romerios life motivated the
leadership of that village to visit
CETRAM to investigate the
cause of Romerios change.
Upon their arrival at CETRAM
they were shocked at the love
and respect they received. That
same day they announced that
the doors of their villages are
open to the Gospel and that theywant to partner with CETRAM.
They asked that their other
twelve communities be reached
and that Romario return to his
community to teach the youth
the way of Jesus and how they
can live as a community. The
village leaders are also support-
ive of his Banana PlantationProject proposal, as it will
generate income for the village.
This project will be funded by the
secretary of Indian Affairs and is
due to begin early next year.
Presently Romario is
completing his 7th grade studies
at a local government school. In
August he will be heading back
to his village to launch his vision,
to teach the youth about Jesus
way of life and to start hisbanana farm project. CETRAM
will provide logistical support as
well as sending teams of
students to help him. This will be
coordinated by Brother Jos
who is the chief coordinator for
the indigenous areas.
The community has seen
what true Christianity is all about
through the transformational life
of Romerio. The Coordinator for
the Indigenous areas, Brother
Jos da Silva Pereira, and Pastor
Awan Chatarpal recently visited
Romerios village. They heard
first hand from the leadership of
the villages of their need for
CETRAM to provide training in
management and leadership
skills to the leaders representing
the twelve communities. They
want to serve their people better.
All this is happening because of
the sacrifice of one young man,
Romario. A new light has
dawned in the community and it
must be kept burning till the
break of day. We are asking for
prayers for Romario and his
team as they continue to share
the light of Jesus with these
villages.
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In January 2009 I traveled560 miles in a dugout canoe in
Southern Guyana with five
college students to enlist young
Wai Wai Indians to attend the
opening class of our
training center in Boa
Vista, Roraima, Brazil.
Twenty-six months
later, one of theseyoung Wai Wai,
Rabeck Shu Shu,
showed up on the
opening day of the
training center.
Shu Shu arrived
after two weeks of
travel and one badmotorcycle accident
with a large smile, an
eagerness to learn,
and a willingness to
serve in any way pos-
sible. To our surprise
he also arrived with a
clearly God-given
talent in music. In notime he was playing
the guitar and piano
and writing songs. We
all knew this was a young man
that God was going to use in a
powerful way.
In the months that followed,Shu Shu became a key partner
in developing a set of 20 Bible
stories for his tribe. He worked
tirelessly with Elizabeth Pearman
to develop these stories accu-
rately according to Gods Word
and the Wai Wai culture.
Upon graduation, Shu Shudecided to stay on at CETRAM
as a leader to help the six new
Wai Wai students. As classes
began, Shu Shu began leading
and teaching the new
students.
On the first Sunday
night service of the newschool year, I asked Shu
Shu to write a song in
Wai Wai about my
message and then close
out the service with this
song. To the amazement
of many others, that is
exactly what he did. By
the time I finished preach-ing, he had the lyrics and
music to a beautiful song,
which described my
message in detail. When
asked, How do you do
it? How do you write so
many songs? He replied,
I just write what I hear!
What a joy it is to
partner with this young
man whose heart is to
reach many tribes with Gods
Story in obedience to what he
hears the Holy Spirit calling him
to do.
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To give the full picture of how
prayer releases destiny in our lives, Ineed to go back to 1997.
I attended a meeting where Alan
Winter talked about an upcoming trip
to a children's home in Guyana.
Truthfully, I had no interest what-
soever in any kind of mission trip and
simply attended his talk out of
curiosity. At the end of the meeting
he made one comment that has
completely changed my life. He said,
"Pray and ask the Lord if this is
something He would want you to
do." No problem, I thought, I have
NO desire to go on this trip. I will
pray. The rest is, as they say, history.
I prayed. God said go. I went. I was
hooked, and I LOVED it!
Fifteen years later I have been
on many trips; the only difference
now is that I am asking the Lord,
Which trips should I go on? I feel
like I am a part of the Frontline family
and I try to pray with them on a regu-
lar basis. During a time of prayer with
some of the leaders of CETRAM, the
Lord spoke to me about a project
that would be called Dream Casters.
The sole purpose of Dream
Casters is to help the graduating
students fulfill the dreams that they
have prayerfully written into a project
while at CETRAM. Most of these
students come from very hard-
working families who struggle just to
put food on the table. Very few of
these students have any prior job
skills other than farming to feed theirfamilies. In the school the students
are not only taught the Bible but also
vocational and leadership skills,
business plan development, and
basic computer skills. While the
students now have the skills and de-
sire to help their communities, they
lack the resources to take advantage
of the opportunities before them.
This is where Dream Casters
comes in. Dream Casters is a micro-
financing organization, which
provides short-term, very low
interest rate loans to financially
fund business ideas of the
graduating students. A board
has been developed of alumni,
faculty, and individuals
connected with the school to
prayerfully fund and mentor the
students dreams. As the
students succeed in their busi-
ness endeavors, they not only
pay back the loan, but also
become mentors for others to
become part of the program.
The Lord will continue togive the students dreams and
visions for their lives as they
seek out an intimate relation-
ship with Him. What I am shar-
ing with you is the vision and
ideas that I believe are an ex-
pression of only part of His
thoughts and instructions. I
began with the statement:
Prayer Releases Destiny. The
question I ask you now is: Will youpray and ask God if He would want
you to be a part of Dream Casters?
Remember: Prayer Releases Destiny
If you would like to partner with
Dream Casters by giving through the
non-profit organization Transforma-
tional Development Systems, please
contact Don Lewis at
eagle2nations@gmail.com or make a
check out to T.D.S. and send to
5600 Short Road, Fairburn, GA
30213 c/o Frontline Missions.
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What a wonderful privilege it has been to be on this
journey with God during my first year at FrontlineMissions. This journey has taken me from the Americas
to Asia, and at each stop, God has taught me that in His
kingdom, partnerships are relationships. A few of these
partnerships have come through my friendships with four
young ladies, each from a different country but sharing a
passionate love for the Lord.
When I first met Marta in the mountains of
Honduras, I saw a shy ten-year-old girl curiously watch-
ing our mission team. She didnt say much that first year,
but I remember her cautious smile. As each year passed,
I saw Martas trust in us grow and she became my friend
and ally. At fourteen, Marta has a deep integrity and love
for her people that is beyond her years. She is one that I
go to when I need to know which families have the most
desperate needs for rice and corn. She is the one who
will organize all the kids to pick up trash in the commu-
nity. She is the one who brings an old widow to my
attention who needs a stovepipe installed in her house.
She is the one whose hand is never out to receive, but is
instead extended to help someone else.
I found my sweet Guyanese sister, Pamela, when I
went to CETRAM in 2012. Many nights she came into
my room, gave me a hug, and said, Sister Elizabeth, let
me pray for you. What drew me to Pamela was her pas-
sionate love for her Savior and Friend, Jesus Christ.
Pamelas inner beauty spilled over to her countenance
whenever she expressed her love for Jesus in worship
with her hands and voice lifted high. Her love for Jesus
overflows on everyone around her.I know Vanilda as a beautiful princess from the Wai
Wai tribe in Brazil. While she is not a princess in her
earthly lineage, she certainly is in the eyes of our King
Jesus. Each day that I was at CETRAM, I saw her carry
herself with the grace and dignity of a princess of the
kingdom of heaven. Vanilda was a vital part of my trans-
lation team to craft 20 Bible stories into her tribes
language and culture. Her eagerness to help translate
and record Bible stories in the midst of the stifling after-
noon heat touched my heart. It was a joy to see her
transformed by the love of Christ each day, and become
more of the princess that God has created her to be.
I encountered Praises bright smile and open
personality when I traveled to Seoul, South Korea. Praise
bubbles with a deep-rooted joy that cannot be
contained. After hearing her story of her difficult escape
from North Korea two years ago, I realized that her joy
could only be rooted in the freedom she has found in
Jesus. When I asked her about her dream for the future
she responded that she wants to be a missionary. My
people in North Korea dont know about God, but they
need someone to tell them, was her heartfelt reply.
Praises desire to be a missionary took her to a BibleSchool in the Philippines where she was able to learn
Englishin just four months. Praises life is a beautiful
expression of the freedom and restoration found in Jesus
Christ.
These four young ladies have found their way into
my heart and made a place of their very own. What a
privilege it is to partner with young and passionate
leaders from my generation as they impact the world
with the love of Christ.
the Journey
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During the week of June 9-16,
2012, a group consisting ofLandmark Christian School alumni
and members of New River Commu-
nity Church travelled to the moun-
tains of Honduras to the Tolupan
Indians. The Tolupan, an unreached
people group residing in the Mon-
tana de la Flor region of Yoro, Hon-
duras, are ostracized and were long
ago restricted to land that could
grow few products other than coffeetrees.
Since 2005, Frontline Missions
and their teams (including Landmark
and New River teams) have been
progressing in a friendship with the
Tolupan people. This friendship is
unprecedented and historic. The
Tolupan, having been neglected by
the authorities and exploited by
fellow Hondurans, have long rejected
outsiders and kept tight walls around
their communities.
When the New River team
pulled into the town of La Ceibita, a
village in the Tolupan region, they
were greeted with hugs, kisses,
smiles and handshakes. This warm
welcome came as a shock even to
the few missionaries who return to
this village year after year. The
Tolupan are a people known for the
lack of emotion that they show and
yet they were hugging and kissing
the necks of the Americans who had
just driven up! The welcome did not
stop there, however, as there was a
warm reception for the team in the
other villages to which they travelled:
Monte Rey, La Muralla and Las
Naranjas.
The New River team met up
with a similarly scheduled team from
Eagles Landing First Baptist Churchand both teams went to Monte Rey
together. The men of both Eagles
Landing and New River built a solar
dryer in Monte Rey while the women
set up a medical clinic in the towns
school building. Leading the clinic
was OR nurse, Karen Beard, who
attends New River Community
Church.
While the Eagles Landing teamcontinued work on the solar dryer
and clinic, the majority of the New
River team, led by pastor, Fred Gilke-
son, hiked to the village of La Muralla
and completed work on a solar dryer
on the property of Lencho, a coffee
farmer from El Cote.
The New River team was also
able to send several of the Landmark
graduates into the town of Las
Naranjas to pray and share Bible
stories. These boys prayed over a
woman for healing and were able towitness a miracle when hiking
through that town the next day; the
woman was healed!
In total, there were 10 miracu-
lous healings (many of these being
members of the teams themselves),
205+ people seen in the medical
clinics, 2 solar dryers built, and over
45 people accepting Christ to be
Lord of their lives. New River ishappy to say that this was a very
successful trip and it was a joy to be
with Alan Winter and for the first time
in 12 years, his wife Heidi! May the
Lord continue to work in the lives of
the Tolupan and those who are
sacrificing time and money to reach
out to them.
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Now I dont hv to do wht I dont wnt to do!
One common health issue that we have seen with
the Tolupan has been various respiratory problems.
The question was brought up by one of the medical
professionals as to why this predominately occurs in
the women and small children. One look inside their
homes and the answer is obvious: they cook inside
with an open fire so they breathe the smoke.
Instead of only treating breathing problems, we
began installing stoves with chimneys and everybody
wanted one.
In June we had a team from Eagles Landing First
Baptist of McDonough, GA to install chimneys
throughout the community of La Ceibita. In the home
of one young widow with three small children, I began
asking questions: What happened to your husband
and how do you support your family? I found out that
she worked for different farmers when there was work
and earned enough money for six months. I then
asked, How do you survive the rest of the year?
About this time, a two year old came up to her and
wrapped her arms around her mothers leg. With tears
in her eyes the lady looked at me and stated, I have
to feed my children! Then looking down she said, I
do what I dont want to do! Recently I became a
Christian and I dont want to go back to what I wasdoing.
On our last day we purchased crafts, necklaces,
and baskets from the Tolupan. One of the women that
came to sell her crafts was the widow with her two
year old. When she came up to the table I told the
team to buy everything she had 600 Lempiras or
$30 worth. As she counted the money, tears began to
run down her face. She reached for a hug and told
me, I have enough to feed my children for four
months. I wont have to do what I dont want to do
anymore!
In 2012 FM teams bought over $4,500 worth of
Tolupan crafts. Please join us in prayer as we work to
develop the economy of the Tolupan so that young
mothers wont have to sell themselves for five pounds
of corn or beans anymore.
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My name is Maci Hanner and I
stayed at the Save-R-Kids Childrens
Home (SRK) in Guyana, South Amer-
ica for six weeks over the summer of
2012. My mission in going there was
to tutor the kids at the Home and do
educational evaluations, but it
became so much more than that.
Working with the kids closely, I
was able to build relationships with
them that are so special to me and I
absolutely cannot wait to go back.
During my stay, two sisters named
Tanisha and TracyAnn had a huge
impact on me. I was blown away by
the sisters identical smiles. We
immediately became best friends.
One night I was spending time
with the girls in their room. After
some silly games of singing and
dancing, Tanisha and TracyAnn
began opening up to me about their
past. They told me about their
mother passing away when they
were younger, leaving them with no
caretaker, no place, and no home.
They shared their difficulties through-
out the years and how they had
moved all around the country, neverstaying in the same place. When
they came to Save-R-Kids, they
knew that they were finally home
with Michael and Michiel Campbell
and the rest of the SRK family.
In spite of their difficult start in
life, these girls were so courageous
and strong. I loved
being in their company
and they could always
make me smile. Tanisha
always wanted a hug; I
loved looking down to
see her sweet face
looking up at me. What
blew me away about
both her and her sister,
TracyAnn, was the joythey carried. After all
they have been through,
they still managed to
have those infectious
giggles and smiles. I
know Michael and
Michiel have had a huge
part in that.
The family dynamicthe Campbells have built
is so incredible. They
welcome the kids into the Home with
open arms and love them as their
own. The girls often talked about the
things Brother Mike has taught
them and how they look up to him
as their father. Its such a beautiful
thing to see children who did not
have a place before, being loved andaccepted by the SRK family.
Living with the Campbells for six
weeks, I was able to be part of their
normal, everyday life. I was so
blessed by what I saw. You cannot
be in any part of the Home without
hearing laughter coming from the
next room. I am so amazed and
thankful for what Michael and Michie
do for the Home and the children.
After being there, I have seen what a
true supernatural family looks like. I
have seen what it means to have a
heart for someone; to love them in
the way only a mother loves herchildren. I have seen people with the
biggest hearts you could imagine.
My trip was life-changing to say the
least. The Campbells and all the kids
taught me so much about family,
love, strength and courage in the few
weeks I was there. I could never
thank them enough.
Save-r-Ki dSGuyana
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We were blessed to have a
team travel to La Ceiba, Honduras
for a Therapy and Construction
Mission. Part of our team focused on
building a new room at the Jungle
School. This school is funded by
Helping Honduras Kids, which
provides education, food, and
medical assistance to children living
in poverty. Our team poured
concrete, laid cinder blocks,constructed a bamboo house for
their Indian Day celebration, and
taught English classes in addition to
bonding with the children.
While one group worked at the
Jungle School, the therapy team
(comprised of physical, occupational,
and speech therapists, an
autism/behavior specialist, and a
special education teacher) worked atthe Emilia D'Cuire special needs
school - the only special
needs school in
Honduras. With help
from Atlanta Prosthetics
and Orthotics, we were
able to bring custom-
made foot/leg braces
and used custom wheel-
chairs, crutches, hand
splints, feeding aids,
positioning devices, andtools donated by others.
Our team also provided
educational training to
the staff and parents of
children with special
needs.
We also cherished
the time we spent with the children
at the Hogar de Amor orphanage in
the evenings. We swam in the river,watched movies, and ate pizza with
the kids. They even
put on a show of
ballet, singing, and
dancing for us. They
were quite talented!
We were so
blessed to have the
prayers and financial
support of manygenerous people. With
those funds we
bought shoes, baby
formula, bottles, food,
and other baby
supplies. We hiked to
various villages and
delivered the much-
needed items. The smiles on the
children's faces as they slipped a
pair of shoes on their bare feet were
indescribable. The people invited usinto their one room makeshift homes
and sometimes even tried to feed us
what little they had to show their
gratitude for the love we showed
them.
I cannot even begin to explain
the humbling experience of seeing
God's love on the other side of the
world. We may go on a mission
thinking we are serving His peoplewhen in reality, in many ways, we
find His people serving us. God is so
infinite. Thank you all for your
prayers, love, support, and encour-
agement. We feel so blessed to be a
part of the missions.
With much love and gratitude,
The Alvarez Family
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Chavarr ia m i n iStry
The work of missions is all
about equipping the saints to
advance the Kingdom. Our heart is
not only to reach the lost, but also
to maximize the kingdoms
resources by equipping believers to
reach their own people. An example
of this is the Lenca Project. This is
an effort to partner with local lead-
ers to plant indigenous churches in
over twenty communities without
churches around La Campa, ineastern Honduras. We are part-
nering with two Honduran pastors
and several U.S. churches to further
Christs work there.
In 2012 we planted churches in
Cruz Alta and Chimis Mataras. We
trained pastors and leaders and
started a couple of com-
munity projects that will
improve the quality of life
of the Lencan people. In
an effort to prevent
dependency, the training
of pastors and develop-
ment of community proj-
ects were led by the local
pastors and churches.
This helped to empowerthem and to further ad-
vance their testimony.
We have been
blessed with volunteers
from multiple churches
and prayer partners with
hearts for the
nationals to reach their
communities for Christ.But the impact is not only
for those in Honduras,
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, or
Colombia. Those who
partner with us advance
the Kingdom of God in
their own lives as well. I
love to tell those consider-
ing a mission trip: If you
have never been part of a
short term mission trip, go
once; I can promise you,
your life will never be the
same.
In 2013 we are
planning to plant two more
Lencan churches in Honduras and
two churches and a Bible Institute in
Nicaragua. We will continue to train
leaders and pastors and have mar-
riage retreats in Honduras and
Nicaragua. We are also excited to
welcome our close friends, Greg
and Jean Hines (see page 1), as
they become full-time missionaries
to the Lenca people in early 2014.
We are very thankful to God for
allowing us to be part of what He is
doing in the different areas. We are
thankful to all of you, our co-labor-
ers in ministry, for allowing Him to
use you to reach so many people.
To God be the glory!
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South Korea
After reading FMs 2011 magazine articles about
Bible Storying, Simon Suh, a Korean-American
missionary to South Korea, invited me to come to
Seoul to train the members of his church, Every Nation
Church. I respectfully declined due to a busy calendar
and a lot of neglected upkeep at home. The next
morning, Pastor Simon walked up to me with a photo-
graph of a Christian who had been executed by the
North Korean government. His crime? The possession
of a page, not a whole Bible, but a single page from
the Word of God. Then Simon asked me, You donthave two weeks when our leaders are dying?
I replied, I have two weeks in early November.
Over the next nine months before the trip, I kept telling
others, and myself, I am only going once!
On November 3rd, 2012 Elizabeth Pearman,
Heidi, and I headed to Seoul, South Korea to conduct
two weeks of training in Storying so that these North
Koreans could carry Gods Word in their hearts insteadof their hands. What we didnt totally realize is that we
were in fact training three separate groups South
Koreans, English-speaking internationals, and North
Koreans now living in South Korea.
As we led the training, we listened to the North
Koreans tell stories of how they had survived persecu-
tion, torture, starvation, fear, and constant oppression
of the North Korean government. We fell in love with
our new friends and they began to call us family. The
day of our teary goodbye, we promised that we wouldpray for them and commit to do what the Lord
instructed. Two weeks later, we had begun to:
1. Facilitate the birth of a new organization,
Windswept, started and run by young people who
want to raise money to rescue those who are victims
of persecution and human trafficking.
2. Partner with Guitars for God to send guitars to
Asia. We have the money for 5 guitars to date.
3. Raise money to rescue a family of five.
4. Involve churches in praying for the persecuted,
underground church in North Korea.
Contrary to my initial declaration, God had other
plans for our one-time trip to South Korea. He has
knit our hearts with the North Koreans and birthed a
partnership to help spread the story of the freedom
found in Christ to those bound in darkness.
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