It is just about the end of January, which means our second month of support raising is coming to a close. Our goal is to leave the US by October 1, 2010 which is 10 months from when we were accepted by MTW. To reach this goal, we need to get 10% of our financial support each month.
I am happy to say that we are very close to our target of 20% at the end of the second month. We have received 17% of our monthly support! We also have over 40 prayer partners! Praise the Lord.
This next month will be fun and exciting for us. We have already set up multiple meetings with individuals and have at least 1 church we will be sharing with.
We'd love to share with you more about what is going on - both in our lives and in La Ceiba, Honduras. Please let us know if you'd like to get together or want more information! -M
Mike and Ashley Troxell are missionaries to La Ceiba, Honduras with Mission to the World.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Scholarships
The team that is currently in Honduras, which we will be joining, has just begun a new ministry. It involves giving scholarships to kids so that they may attend high school.
In Honduras school is mandatory only through the 6th grade. After that, all schooling is private, and is no longer provided free by the government. This, coupled with a very high unemployment rate, means that a very low percentage of children go to school after the 6th grade.
Our team has come up with a way to help provide for the education of some of the youth as well as share the gospel of Christ with them. The students who receive the scholarship will have to maintain good grades and also will be required to attend a weekly discipleship class.
If you would like more information about these scholarships, please see here.
Ashley and I are so excited to be a part of this, and many other ministries in Honduras. We ask for your prayers as we prepare to go. -M
In Honduras school is mandatory only through the 6th grade. After that, all schooling is private, and is no longer provided free by the government. This, coupled with a very high unemployment rate, means that a very low percentage of children go to school after the 6th grade.
Our team has come up with a way to help provide for the education of some of the youth as well as share the gospel of Christ with them. The students who receive the scholarship will have to maintain good grades and also will be required to attend a weekly discipleship class.
If you would like more information about these scholarships, please see here.
Ashley and I are so excited to be a part of this, and many other ministries in Honduras. We ask for your prayers as we prepare to go. -M
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Get the word out
In the last week or so, we have started to become more proactive in our sharing about Honduras. It started with the missions conference at our church. We were able to present about Honduras and our vision for what our ministry will look like to many. We also were comissioned and prayed for by our church leadership!
In addition, we sent via snail mail, over 200 packets of info and would like to provide you the opportunity to partner with us. We are continuing to work on more packets as we acquire more of the contact information for our friends and family.
This past week our team leader, Mike Pettengill, was in town and stayed with us. He introduced us to 2 other churches and numerous people!
The Lord is awesome and has been so good to Ashley and me. We are so excited to have the chance to partner with others and be used by the Lord to further His kingdom here on Earth. -M
In addition, we sent via snail mail, over 200 packets of info and would like to provide you the opportunity to partner with us. We are continuing to work on more packets as we acquire more of the contact information for our friends and family.
This past week our team leader, Mike Pettengill, was in town and stayed with us. He introduced us to 2 other churches and numerous people!
The Lord is awesome and has been so good to Ashley and me. We are so excited to have the chance to partner with others and be used by the Lord to further His kingdom here on Earth. -M
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
House Guest
So, our future boss, the team leader for La Ceiba, Mike Pettengill has been staying at our house since this past Friday night. He was in town for the CovCom Missions Conference (our home church), as well as meeting up with some of his other supporters here in the valley.
It has been a pretty interesting few days. It started when I got a message saying he needed picked up at the airport. Not a big deal, but we had no chance to talk and set up the details, so we both walked around the terminal for awhile and randomly ran into each other on the curbside.
We have stayed pretty busy, which is good. Ashley and I are just starting our support raising efforts and he is someone who raised support only a few years ago and continues to look for people to support the ministry in La Ceiba.
Mike has made us dinner 3 times already and all three times it has been really good. He was the navigator as we drove to a meeting and told us to "keep going, I think there is another Chandler Rd." (we ended up being about 10 minutes late since we had to turn around after a few miles)
So far so good on having a third person around the house this week. We are very much looking forward to working with Mike and his family and the rest of the Honduras team when we get there! -M
It has been a pretty interesting few days. It started when I got a message saying he needed picked up at the airport. Not a big deal, but we had no chance to talk and set up the details, so we both walked around the terminal for awhile and randomly ran into each other on the curbside.
We have stayed pretty busy, which is good. Ashley and I are just starting our support raising efforts and he is someone who raised support only a few years ago and continues to look for people to support the ministry in La Ceiba.
Mike has made us dinner 3 times already and all three times it has been really good. He was the navigator as we drove to a meeting and told us to "keep going, I think there is another Chandler Rd." (we ended up being about 10 minutes late since we had to turn around after a few miles)
So far so good on having a third person around the house this week. We are very much looking forward to working with Mike and his family and the rest of the Honduras team when we get there! -M
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Big Week
We are now into the first full week of 2010. It is, and has been, a big week in our lives.
1. Our official MTW prayer cards arrived on Tuesday!
2. We finished our first batch of our first mailer on Thursday night.
3. We put the finished mail in the outgoing mail.
4. I picked our future team leader, since he is here for our missions conference. He is staying at our house for the next week.
5. Saturday and Sunday is the Covenant Community Church Missions Conference! We are kicking off our support raising at our church's missions conference.
We thank the Lord for being with us through all we are doing and we thank you all for your prayer and support. -M
1. Our official MTW prayer cards arrived on Tuesday!
2. We finished our first batch of our first mailer on Thursday night.
3. We put the finished mail in the outgoing mail.
4. I picked our future team leader, since he is here for our missions conference. He is staying at our house for the next week.
5. Saturday and Sunday is the Covenant Community Church Missions Conference! We are kicking off our support raising at our church's missions conference.
We thank the Lord for being with us through all we are doing and we thank you all for your prayer and support. -M
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Back to "real" life...
After 17 days of "vacation", I (Ashley) am returning to work. I say "vacation" because it was packed full: Christmas parties, write our first newsletter, print E-giving cards and mailing labels, enter contacts into our database, eat lots of yummy food, go for walks, find a new home for one of our dogs, clean, organize, not to mention shop and wrap gifts... Ah... It was wonderful.
Alas, the time has come for life to return to the steady pace of working each day from 7AM-4PM (and sometimes more). Thankfully, I love my job - my students - my co-workers - my boss... As I've mentioned before, I love where we are. The difference starting tomorrow is that each evening I will be starting my second job - well, our second job. We are ready to find partners to support us and the ministry in Honduras as we go. This coming weekend, we will be speaking at our church's mission conference - our first "talk". We will be sending out our first mailing this week or early next week.
The excitement is building. Anticipation is growing! My favorite verse today: "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" -Ash
Alas, the time has come for life to return to the steady pace of working each day from 7AM-4PM (and sometimes more). Thankfully, I love my job - my students - my co-workers - my boss... As I've mentioned before, I love where we are. The difference starting tomorrow is that each evening I will be starting my second job - well, our second job. We are ready to find partners to support us and the ministry in Honduras as we go. This coming weekend, we will be speaking at our church's mission conference - our first "talk". We will be sending out our first mailing this week or early next week.
The excitement is building. Anticipation is growing! My favorite verse today: "For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?" -Ash
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