Two years ago I boarded a chartered 747 with over a hundred others from Birmingham, Alabama on our way to Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Our mission was to help build a small classroom, host carnivals for children, carry bottled water and food supplies to families and tell as many who would listen about a Jewish carpenter who lived 2,000 years ago and died so that they could have life in his name. This short-term mission trip, I later to learned, was not a unique experience. Over one million Americans travel abroad yearly, most often through a church fellowship, for the purpose of helping the poor and evangelizing. What an experience! The hospitality of the people of Honduras was touching. The kids were fun to play with and patient with my poor attempts at Spanish. Worshipping with local Christians was truly memorable. Once when we were all singing "How Great Thou Art", the nationals singing in Spanish and we Americans singing in English, I think I glimpsed a bit of Revelation 7:9-10. The culmination of all history - people from every tribe and tongue worshipping and praising God!
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