April 2021 Newsletter
27 MAR 2021CORNERSTONE0 April 2021 Newsletter Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.–Colossians 3:23, 24 For of him, and through him, and […]
December 2020 Newsletter
I lay abed last night in the starless night that covered league upon league in satin black on my side of the world. My consciousness was wandering somewhere in the misty borderland between sound asleep and “awake but don’t want to be.” I was searching for a way back into the forest I’d walked out of in the […]
COVID Honduras and Beyond: A Vital and Sensible Public Stance Emerges
Since the curtain opened on Act I: Scene I of the Hand’s Down Winner of this year’s Most Dystopian Play Award: “Covid-19 meets the world of 2020”, we here at Loma de Luz mission hospital in Honduras have tried to stay: 1.) well-informed 2.) proactive 3.) balanced in our preparations and response. Now, looking back over the […]
A Patient Story: Near Casualty of COVID Collateral Damage
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have written a lot in Blog Posts & Newsletters about the collective state of Fear in the world; the collateral damage done when Authorities make collectivist decisions motivated by fear and politics, and the call to action for the individual Christians who comprise the Church to stand up and be counted, […]
September Newsletter 2020
Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you. –Deut. 31:6 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord […]
Quarantine
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us— yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters; These see the works of the Lord, and His wonders in […]
Good Luck, God Bless & Remember to Social Distance: Returning to a Lockdown Country
What follows is a letter describing a very recent re-entry from the US into Honduras. The names may have been changed to protect the innocent, and in fact, in the interest of protecting any and all helpful authorities, you might consider this to be entirely a work of fiction. That individual people were understanding and […]
Summer Newsletter 2020
June-July 2020 Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching. –Hebrews 10:25 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth […]
Short Stories From the Team at Loma de Luz
Isaac Hotz, one of our great LdL missionaries shares the following “Short stories from the team at Loma de Luz.” It summarizes the recent work at Hospital Loma de Luz so well that we are just passing it along in its entirety. ~Bendiciones, jcm ‘GOOD NEWS’ WHEN WE ARE ALL TIRED OF BAD NEWS: SHORT […]
Showing God’s Grace in Darkened Days
…..but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. II Corinthians 3: 5,6 And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with […]