Dr. Mitch Arbeláez

Dr. Mitch Arbeláez will be joining Connect Global this June to lead a teaching of Global Pathway, at CCI Church in La Ceiba, Honduras.

He will also be a part of our exciting Multi-Day National Ministry Leaders Summit. This will be the second Time for Dr. Mitch to join Connect Global in Honduras and We could not be more excited to have him. 

Dr. Mitch Arbeláez

Mitch works as the director of the Global Pathway missionary mobilization program for Latin America. Along with his wife, Michelle, they are instrumental in assisting pastors and church leaders to become more mission-minded and to raise up missionaries to go to the least-reached areas of our world. Mitch and Michelle believe that the potential of mobilizing whole nations for the Great Commission work of God is now.

“Nations are waiting for the Gospel and other nations need to know their God-given potential to reach those waiting nations. Now is the time to awaken and mobilize all nations to complete the Great Commission.”

Along with these responsibilities, Mitch is part of the Go To Nation's world headquarter team helping to train and lead the entire organization in all that God has for them.

Dr. Mitch Arbeláez

Go To Nations

A Sweet Message from our Friends at the Little Lambs Refuge

A Short Update and Video from the Little Lambs Refuge and Outreach Project in Honduras

Here is a quick video we hope you will watch that our dear friends at the Little Lambs Refuge, a girls home in La Masica Honduras, made for us as a Thank You for our partnership with them over the past year. 

This is thanks to all who have given through Connect Global to help us support global ministries like this one and who continue to travel with us to visit and show support to communities in need. 

We have our next trip to La Masica scheduled for April 8-15, 2017. Please join us and help us continue to make an impact in the lives of these sweet children. 

Click Here for More info on La Masica Girls Home

Connect Global visit to Little Lambs Refuge

CJ and Teri Palmer give a quick Video update from La Masica

Here is a quick video update from our visit to Little Lambs Children's Refuge in June of 2016. Thank you to CJ and Teri Palmer of PrepareMyMission for sharing your perspective on video for us. 

Connected Community Update: Aquaponics

[CONNECTED COMMUNITY UPDATE]

Here Pastor Alison of La Masica, Honduras holds on of the Tilapia he raised in a new Aquaponic Fish System. 

A new Aquaponic project now exists in a small town called La Masica. It's going to benefit a girls home we support.

Our friend and long time Honduran partner, Jorge Amador, was the main catalyst for getting this project initiated and completed.

They worked hard and got all the supplies they needed from local friends and partners.

This is a wonderful example of the community working together to create practical solutions to support each other.

You can find out more about this ministry by clicking Here and Here. 

Learn more about Aquaponics 

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These fish were cultivated and raised in a new aquaponic system in La Masica, Honduras for a Children's Home and Vocational School. 

Cj and Teri Explain Connected Community

Here is a brief video explanation of our Connected Community Initiative from two recent Connect Global Team Members, Cj and Teri Palmer of PrepareMyMission.

More info on this local girls home in La Masica, Honduras can be found here, and here. 

Video Update via Facebook

Heart Transplant

 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. ”

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Children are the Future

“Children are likely to live up to
what you believe of them.”

— Lady Bird Johnson

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“Sustainable solutions such as Solar energy, Aquaponics, and Clean Water are making a huge impact around the world to improve very critical, but solvable problems. Connect Global is making sustainable projects available to those who need them most.”

Rosebud Fair

So grateful for the opportunity to attend the annual Rosebud Fair.

The team handed out approx. 800 bottles of water to the historical dancers, and performers. The history and heritage we were able to witness was very powerful and passionately displayed.

Thank you to all who made this trip possible.