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Travis Moffitt
All over the world today people are facing the same enemy, Covid-19. This tiny virus has caused a huge commotion. Businesses have closed. Schools have shut their doors. Entire nations have declared a quarantine in an effort to limit the spread of the virus. Connect Global has a plan to help serve as many people as we can who are affected by COVID-19
All over the world today people are facing the same enemy, Covid-19. This tiny virus has caused a huge commotion. Businesses have closed. Schools have shut their doors. Entire nations have declared a quarantine in an effort to limit the spread of the virus. I’m sure in the near and distant future we will look back on this time as a significant historical marker.
We can become a whole new creation for the purpose of being the same blessing to others. Lean in with us as Travis Moffitt shares with us a key set of scriptures outlining our amazing position we can take on if we realize that we are Blessed to be a Blessing
In the midst of all that is going on in our world right now we could all use a little bit of good news.
In the midst of all that is going on in our world right now we could all use a little bit of good news.
In the midst of all that is going on in our world right now we could all use a little bit of good news.
There are things in our lives that can only be explained as blessings. Things we may not even deserve. We can identify those blessings as that which only comes from one source.
A Tall glass of water—On a hot summer day there's nothing more refreshing. The simplest of drinks can be the most thirst quenching, especially when it's exactly what's needed. Until it's unavailable.
This is the case for the residents of the Honduran towns of El Tamarindo and San Lorenzo. Around 600 men, women and children have lived without regular access to this most basic life-sustaining drink—Water.
I have witnessed first hand the living conditions of these wonderful people.
Connect Global is committed to sharing the Gospel of Jesus through collaborative and sustainable solutions. Through partnership with the local Water Management District, local businesses and local churches Connect Global was able to drill a deep water well in El Tamarindo. This high capacity water well is now connected directly to the community's existing plumbing system providing water to every home, every family, every child for many years to come.
The community has offered land and committed to build a secure well house. A local business, Agrolibano, has offered to provide a high capacity water tank. Connect Global has committed to drill a deep water well and supply a water pump. Due to the amazing collaboration and financial blessing from many sources in the US and In Honduras, the people of El Tamarindo now have water.
Our Next Water Project will be in San Lorenzo in late summer of 2019. You can come with us and help bring clean water to a community in Need!
We are raising $5000 to complete the next project and we need your help. Whether you can give $5 or $50 every penny counts. You can literally save lives by helping us. Clean Water can equal improvements in education, income and overall health.
Thank you.
Travis Moffitt
Jorge Amador, our friend, and partner for the past 13 years has become the National Director for Honduras with Connect Global, please join us in welcoming him to the team.
Jorge hosts teams of missionaries from the US into Honduras and takes them to Cusuna, La Ceiba, San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and all points in between. He leaves his family for up to two weeks at a time to make the seven-hour drive by bus. He does this up to a dozen times a year. This type of work makes it very difficult for him to find a regular job for income between these trips.
He has suffered several terrible life tragedies and yet he continues to serve. Even when he himself is in need of several basic items, on every call he speaks to me of someone else who is in need. He wants us to buy food for her. I want to buy food for him.
I’ve known Jorge since 2004 and I’ve never seen him put himself before others. I’ve yet to hear him request aid for himself at the expense of others. He truly has the heart of a servant.
Part of our trip next week will include blessing Jorge. I’m sure we will visit the lady he has spoken to us about. I’m sure we will bless him by buying her some food. I also know we will financially, emotionally, and spiritually bless Jorge. After all, he is my friend and a true Hero of the Faith.
This year, (2017), we have brought Jorge on to our team at Connect Global as our National Director in Honduras. He is an amazing servant, always thinking of someone else and ready to serve at a moments notice. He has been a great asset to our organizationa dna great friend to each of us personlly.
Thank you and may God bless you as well as our new National Director in Honduras, Jorge Amador.
Jorge Amador, National Director in Honduras for Connect Global,
Connect Global National Director in Honduras Jorge Amador with Pastor Milton Valle of Puerta del Cielo in La Ceiba, Honduras.
Thanks to the overwhelmingly generous support we have received we will be making plans to break ground in 2017. We have been talking with several professional contractors in La Ceiba to finalize building standards and firm up a potential start date. We will inform you of the details when they are complete.
Cardiac Transplantation: The replacement of a patient's diseased or injured heart with a healthy donor heart.
Think for a moment about the monumental process of removing a person's heart. Taking what may be the single most important organ in a person's body out because it is not functioning properly. Assessing the current level of damage as being so great that there is no other course of action but full removal.
Then think for a moment about the cost of the donor. One must die so that another person may live. The donor does not receive a new heart. Their heart is, however, healthy enough for the new recipient. The donor's gift in death becomes life for someone else.
I think this physical example is not unlike the emotional and spiritual journey of a mission trip. Someone gives of their life so that another may receive life or hope or food or clothes or comfort or ...
A few weeks ago Gina, Noah and I stood at the Hedman Alas bus station in La Ceiba, Honduras waiting for our heart recipients to arrive. A group of 6 young ladies whom we had never met, but already loved. Little did we know that our hearts would be extracted over the next month and placed in each one of them.
It was already dark, and still 85 degrees, by the time they arrived. Gretchen, Hannah, Ryan, Kate, Brittany and Amber came pouring out of the bus with another half dozen Americans. They were tired from a long day of travel and weighed down with their huge backpacks. We were their 11th country on their WorldRace. Their 11th host. Their 11th ministry stop. Just one more location on their journey home? Maybe we could be more.
A few greetings with our new family of strangers and we were off to get them settled into their sleeping quarters and then dinner. Over the next month we visited orphanages, hospitals, police stations, churches, schools and feeding centers. We laughed together. We cried together. We prayed for the sick and fed the hungry together. And in all of these activities and meals and conversations, our hearts were slowly excised. Piece by piece this cardiac transplantation took place.
We heard the stories of their visits to other countries. We heard their family histories back in the US. We got to know their brothers and sisters through pictures and tales of family Christmas and sorrow and joy. They hugged my wife. They played Uno with my son. They have our hearts.
And I'm forever grateful for it.
Cardiac Transplantation occurs when the patient's heart is too sick or injured to continue pumping. It's often times the last chance for the heart recipient. And the final gift of the heart donor. Each of us on this earth experience the impact of life. Our hearts grow. We receive love and betrayal. We experience joy and sorrow. Our hearts gain strength and sometimes, often times, our hearts get sick. Our hearts become bitter by betrayal. Our hearts become sour by sorrow. Our hearts become timid by trials. And we begin to die. We need a new heart.
In the book of Ezekial chapter 36, verse 26, God makes an incredible promise to us. He says, "I will remove your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." God Himself describes the first heart transplant. He promises that He will not leave us in a sick and injured condition of cardiac arrest. But that He will become our ultimate heart donor and give us life.
As Gina, Noah and I poured out our own hearts into our team, I could feel the Spirit of God filling us with a new heart; filling us with His heart. I could feel His love for people growing inside of us. I could feel my own bitterness and sorrow and fear leaving as His grace and joy and boldness came flooding in. I could feel my heart of stone being removed and His heart of flesh was carefully sewn in and began pumping new life.
This supernatural cardiac transplantation is indeed a miracle. Yet it occurs through the very practical action of "Love Your Neighbor". It first requires the extraction; the emptying of self; the giving of your own heart. When we are empty, then we are ready to receive His new heart.
We met our team prepared to give to them. We were there to be the heart donors, and indeed we poured our hearts into them. But in so doing, we became the recipients. We became the patients getting the new heart of flesh. Thank you team #kylo for the month you gave us and thank you God for you have given me life.
Travis Moffitt
“In April of 2016, Connect Global hosted a team from the World Race in La Ceiba, Honduras as a part of our ongoing initiative, Connected Community. At Connect Global we are committed to fulfilling the Great Commission of Jesus to share the Gospel with the whole world through collaborative and sustainable efforts. You can join us in these efforts through financial partnership and/or trip participation. ”
