In the big city of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, there is a fourteen-year-old girl named Stefany. Stefany gets moved from orphanage to orphanage and really has nowhere to call her home. Many of you have visited a place called Las Casitas, and if you have—...
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” - Romans 12:12 This verse in Romans was consistently on my mind throughout the past summer as I served with Sparrow Missions. It was a verse that challenged me immediately when our summer staff read it...
NOTE: During the months of September and October we are excited to have our summer staff missionaries take over the staff blog! Many of you have served with or been served by our summer staff and God has used each of them in tremendous ways!...
His way is perfect. When He says yes, when He says no, and when He says wait, when we can see what He’s doing and when we don’t understand. A few weeks ago, Lesbi and I taught a lesson on Jeremiah 32 in one of our discipleship...
I can’t begin to describe how grateful I am to God every day for the ministry he has given me in the bordos with the youth boys. I have seen them grow for the past four years and God is doing wonderful things in their...
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares The Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and future.” -- Jeremiah 29:11 The funny, but not always fun, thing about following God is that even when...
I’m learning a lot about this 4 letter word these days. I thought rest was something you did while sick. When your body clearly can’t handle life’s normal threshold of stressors because of a fever or a broken bone, you rest to regain your strength. ...
“Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.” Recently in San Pedro Sula, Sparrow had the opportunity to start an English language training program for fifteen of the older youth and a few adults from the Bordos community. ...
Sometimes God says wait. Wait for My timing and just trust. This past week I have been getting settled into San Pedro Sula, finding my way around the city and….waiting. When I finished language school, I was so excited to get to San Pedro and actually get...
Almost two weeks ago, we learned that on one our strongest youth boys, named Franklin, had passed away. I can’t really describe in words the pain I felt. Franklin was a responsible and hardworking young man, who was a believer and incredible brother in Christ...