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Fall 2023 Newsletter

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I thought we’d start this newsletter with a short piece from Dr. Osiris, a young Honduran Missionary Physician currently serving at Loma de Luz. It is a story from one of her online posts: This week at Hospital Loma de Luz, a little 8-year-old patient arrived whose story has deeply touched our hearts. She lost […]

Summer 2023 Newsletter

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you because he does not wish for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. –2 Peter 3:9 From deep in the realm of the dead I called for help, and you listened to my cry. —Jonah […]

March 2023 Newsletter

Behold the humble, multi-purpose Madreado Tree (gliricidia sepium)!  Here on the North Coast of Honduras it is about as common as dirt, and noticed about as often. Its bark and body are like a Honey Locust, its flowers like Wisteria, and its  second growth like a Mimosa (which is not too surprising as it is […]

December 2022 Newsletter

     In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. –Job 1:1.      Most of us can relate to some part of the pre-tested Job. Most of us sort of fear God, try to walk upright and avoid evil. Though on the other hand, […]

Autumn 2022 Newsletter

         “I am falling. Deeper and deeper I am falling, and the light recedes in the distance. Everywhere else is a darkness so black that it feels like a weight pressing on me from all sides, as I fall farther and farther from the light.  I hear my heart racing, then slowing rapidly, slower and slower. […]

Summer 2022

July 2022      She stands straight and still, eyes on the dawn awakening where the sky meets the water. Her feet are planted on the very edge of that warm sea, the sea in constant conversation with the land where they meet here on this desert beach. The wind breathes from the deep toward the […]

April 2022 Newsletter

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.    —Philippians 4:6      Another winter storm has settled upon us here on the North Coast of Honduras. The sun does […]

December 2021 Newsletter

Christmas 2021 – New Year’s 2022 Dear Cornerstone Friends, We thought for the closing of this year we would show you some of the people and some of the work you’ve supported. May the Lord of Light give you His encouragement and peace this Christmasand in the coming New Year! Thank you for all you do.

November 2021 Newsletter

To Tell the Truth Part 1: Therefore, laying aside falsehood, speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.    –Ephesians 4:25 The chairs where we spoke.             The older daughter looked down and to the right, glaring a hole in the floor just past her right shoulder, as […]

August 2021 Newsletter

Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.         —Matthew 16:24 That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death….     —Philippians 3:10      […]