Here We Grow Again

1 Chronicles 4:10,”And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested.” Five and half years ago God planted New Desire in the country of Honduras. We prayed the prayer of Jabez over our property and that sweet poverty-stricken community.  As missionaries we had no idea what would take place. We just knew that God said GO and so by faith we went. In these past five years we have watched God miraculously work in the hearts and lives of this precious third world country where life is so hard and uncertain for its people on a daily basis. Food is sparse for every family, education is a privilege and receiving love is their longing. We have been so blessed to be assigned by God to not only love these people but also to teach them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Countless people have received Jesus as their Savior, families are fed on a weekly basis and children are not only learning about Jesus but are also given the opportunity to receive an education through our Ambassadors for Christ scholarship program. However, Here We Grow Again!!!!Isaiah 43:19 says, “Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.” God has appointed New Desire another opportunity to plant another Church in the mountains of Talanga. The Church is approximately 10 miles from our main property in La Ermita, Honduras. It takes about 30-40 minutes to get there due to vehicles not being able to drive on the rough terrain that goes straight up the mountain. The new utility truck that God Blessed us with is the only vehicle that will climb the mountain. This group of families was placed in our hearts as we found them hungry and hurting. They wanted to hear and learn about Jesus and many have come to receive Him in the past 3 months. Our Honduras leaders have been going weekly feeding and ministering the Gospel to them. It is with great joy that we introduce to all of our sponsors and Churches here in the United States our second Church plant. It will be called... New Desire Honduras Christian Church #2. Better known as The Church on the Mountain. God has blessed us with a pastor who attended a Central American Bible institute in Siguatepeque, Honduras and has been a pastor for 7 years. Pastor Reinaldo Raul Salinas Gutierrez and his wife Nancy along with their 6 children will be pastoring New Desire’s Church on the Mountain. We are honored that he has taken the position as senior pastor. We welcome pastor Raul and his family into the New Desire family. We are so excited to see what God has in store. With this new endeavor before us we are stepping out in faith to build this congregation and to supply their needs both physically and spiritually. Our congregation has already grown to 25 families and approximately 60 children. They will be included in all of our feeding programs as well as our education program. Services have been taking place on the mountain for 3 months now and what a blessing it is to see their faces when our leaders show up to give food and join them in service. As we step out in faith to grow this congregation and new facet of New Desire Honduras, we will need your help through prayer, your willingness to sponsor children for attending school and monetarily to make sure we have the funds needed to love on and provide their daily needs. We will need financial support to maintain our weekly feeding kitchen, which will include these adults and children. We will need financial provision to provide food baskets and clothes for the Christmas project. Eventually we will need financial provision to purchase and build a sanctuary for this Church family. They are presently meeting (and have outgrown)in a home of one of the members. We are presently working on setting up tarps and chairs as well as a podium for the pastor to preach from. Would you pray for us and with us as God has granted our request by enlarging our territory? Would you pray about helping us financially to make their lives a little easier and their provisions possible? 
Please enjoy the photos of our Church family and Pastor Raul and his family. 
We love you all and we Just Love Jesus!!

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​2020 started off with many exciting and wonderful events. First, as a ministry, we have prayed for a year now for God to send us a new Director of Missions and we are so blessed and thrilled that He has. We would like to welcome Gabriela Zelaya Sanchez to the staff of New Desire as our Director of Missions for New Desire Honduras. Gaby and her husband, Oscar Sanchez will be residing in La Ermita, Honduras. Gaby was part of a sponsorship through Good Samaritan Baptist Missions and she has a heart for missions. It is so humbling to see Gaby come full circle as a sponsored child to now being a director of a mission giving back. She truly has a servant’s heart and a passion to love others like Jesus. We are beyond thankful that God sent Gaby to us. Her passion is to be the hands and feet of Jesus.
Second, Will Spears and his team had a youth event with over 80 youth attending. They prayed, worshipped, Will taught each night and they placed their crowns in the fire which represented anything that hindered them from their relationship with Jesus. Hearts were mended, souls were saved, relationships restored, and a sweet bond of fellowship was created. Will also had a Children’s Day for the smaller children. He taught on the lost sheep and that Jesus would always go after that one who went a stray just like He would die just for you and me if we were the only one.
Third, a team from Alabama came and stayed with us and drilled a well at the mission house. This well has been a 5 year prayer of ours and God provided a well. This well was called “The Miracle Well” and “God’s Water!’ We are beyond excited of how this well is going to be such a blessing to so many. We can’t thank God and this wonderful team of men for providing our ministry with an abundance of water just like us when we receive Christ as our Savior. John 4:14 says, “But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Fourth, we had a total of 9 saved in the community as the team shared the Gospel of Jesus and handed out food baskets. Matthew 28:19 says, “ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” We praise God for those souls saved!
Fifth, our Educating Ambassadors for Christ Sponsorship was a huge success this year. Your generosity allowed 44 students the opportunity to attend school. You have no idea the impact your sponsorship has on the these precious children and youth. Let the words of the song “Thank You” flood your mind as you think of these children and the opportunity you have given them. They are a life that’s been changed.
Sixth, Our feeding program continues to grow and it is a huge blessing for our church. We have the opportunity to feed our elders first and then we feed our children on the same day. This feeding program is a blessing because of the lack of food families have. They may eat one meal a day and then there are days when they don’t eat at all. The feeding program provides a hot meal that not only feeds them physically, but spiritually as well. The ladies of the church or our pastor provide songs of worship and the Word of God at every feeding our church provides. We want to be sure that the Word of God is given, heard, and an opportunity for salvation is presented. We can’t thank our leaders enough for the dedication and hard work that is put into this wonderful feeding program. Thank you for those who continue to sponsor the weekly feeding for the elders and children.
Seventh, our sewing program is another blessing that we provide for our church ladies and girls or anyone who would love to sew. We are providing an opportunity to learn a trade that will later help them provide for their families. Sister Ana is doing a wonderful job teaching our ladies and young girls to sew. We are beyond proud of each of them and the willingness to learn. Thank you Ana for sharing your time and knowledge with the ladies. We appreciate you!
Eighth, since the pandemic of the Corona Virus, our community has been on lockdown. Rules for banks, stores, pharmacies, etc have been only allowed to be open for a limited time and day. The people were only allowed to be out on certain days and it has to be a limited amount of people. There have been over 400 confirmed cases. Most of the people are running out of food. They are in a dry season right now so the drought is making it harder for a harvest. The people in the villages are hurting and La Ermita is not an exception. The main places that provide jobs for our community are closed and it makes it even harder for them to be able to provide food for their families. Our church has been doing what we can to give our food to people. Thanks to people like you and your donations, we have been able to give out food three times. Each time we have given food, it will last them 2 weeks. Thanks to the ones who have given during this pandemic, we have distributed about 280 bags of food to our church people and in the community. We have also been using our water from the well to fill the people’s pila’s (a concrete basin) for washing and bathing. We have not been given the go ahead for drinking the water yet, but the water is able to be used for other things needed. We are providing a case of drinking water with each bag distributed so families are able to stay hydrated. We appreciate the donations during this time to be able to purchase and provide food. God has been faithful to provide donations for bags of food and we are trusting and believing He will continue. If you would like to sponsor or donate please feel free to Venmo @NewDesire-1990 or mail to the office address. We are not sure how long the lockdown will be in Honduras, but it is our heart’s desire to help provide food to these precious families that are truly in need and we have been so thankful that we have been able to provide because of people like you. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your generosity.
We have teams that are scheduled to go in June and July and we are trusting and believing that this pandemic will be over and we can get back to doing all of our ministry responsibilities. If you or your church would like to schedule a mission trip, please feel free to contact us. We would love to have you come and be apart of God’s work that is happening at New Desire Honduras.
Thank you so much for our monthly sponsors, our random sponsors and donations that you all provide for our ministry. We can’t thank you enough for all you do for the ministry. We ask you to continue to pray for God to provide the needs of the ministry both stateside and Honduras. We know He is faithful to provide. If you would like to make a donation or help in any way through any of the programs, feel free to Venmo @NewDesire-1990 or mail to the office at 231 Gordon Road Cedartown, Ga 30125.
We Love you all and We Just Love Jesus!

VENMO @New Desire-1990

New Desire Christian Ministries
231 Gordon Road
​Cedartown, Ga 30125

 
                 
                                                                                       Educating Ambassadors for Christ
 
New Desire Christian Ministries and New Desire Honduras believe that every child deserves a quality education. But more than 50 million of the world’s children each year will never be given an opportunity to step foot in a classroom. That’s why New Desire Stateside and Honduras have developed a scholarship program called “Educating Ambassadors for Christ” to educate the children and young adults the importance of education. With this program, we will be sending the children to school and educating them on the importance how education is the key to release a person from the bondage of poverty. This scholarship program will also plant the foundation of Jesus Christ and a hope that through Him they will become Ambassadors for Christ.
 
Educating Ambassadors for Christ is a yearly sponsorship that will serve from February to February. The cost is $150 per elementary school age student, $175 per middle school age student and $200 for a high school age student. This sponsorship includes their yearly tuition, books, uniforms, and shoes. We would love for you to pray about becoming a partner with us for our Educating Ambassadors for Christ program. You are not only making a difference in a child’s life, but you are making a difference in your life as well. 
Educating children now will allow them to be successful adults later.
 
To become a sponsor, simply provide us with the information below.  We appreciate your willingness to partner, educate, and enhance a future for a child that wouldn’t be possible without your help.
 
We Just Love Jesus!
 
New Desire Christian Ministries
Educating Ambassadors for Christ








​Scholarship Form
 
Name: __________________________________
 
Address: ________________________________
 
City:__________________State:____________Zip:_____________
 
Phone: _______________________
 
Amount Paid: _____________ Cash/Check: _____________
 
Exp:__________________________
 
 
Sponsorship of Student:  $150.00__________

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My name is Will Spears, I am eighteen years old and attend the University of Mobile.
I was blessed to be able to celebrate the New Year by spending a week packed full of ministry, service, and love at New Desire Honduras. When I say the week was packed, I mean it was packed. I have been blessed to have been able to travel to Honduras eight times over the past six years of my life and out of all of my trips I had never had a planned schedule as full as this one. Every single day was full of serving in a different aspect than the day before; all with the same goal in mind which is to share the love, mercy, and joy of Christ. I truly have no words to describe how grateful I am that God has allowed me to be a part of New Desire Honduras from the very beginning and has allowed me to experience His presence at work, His divine appointments, and faith in action like I have never witnessed before. This ministry not only touches and changes the lives of the people in La Ermita, Honduras, but has challenged me to grow in my faith, to love more, to listen and trust God’s will for my life, and to know that we serve a God who is good and can make even the worst of situations display His majesty and sovereignty over our lives. 
I am so excited to share with you all what was accomplished in the week I was there. A small team from Alabama, along with the help of New Desire, took on the task of raising the funds to buy a bicycle for every family that attends New Desire Church. For most people in America a bicycle is simply a toy for kids, but it is so much more for families in Honduras. It is most people’s main source of transportation to and from: work, errands, church, and anywhere else they need be. We surprised the people at their homes with these new bikes, along with a big bag of food and basic necessities. Through many generous donations New Desire Church was able to give out sixty of these brand new bikes and bags of supplies to the people of the church; the looks on the people’s faces were priceless. Who would have ever thought that a simple bike could lighten a families load and brighten their day so much? We were able to partner with a ministry out of the capital city of Tegucigalpa who are able to build brand new, safe and sanitary houses in one day for people in need for around $1,800. There was about twenty-five men and youth from the church who came to help this family in need. It was so amazing to me to see everyone pull up on there new bikes and get straight to work; giving up their Saturday to serve others without expecting anything in return. These people get it!  That as Christians we are not called to sit around and wait for someone else to do something, instead we are called to serve, to go, to be lights to others. As I took a step back and watched everyone work together I looked around at all the families in the surrounding houses who may or may not know Jesus or be plugged in to a church. I realize how this house being built for the family in need snowballs into an opportunity for the people in the village to see an answered prayer from a family coming to life right before their eyes. There is a very strong stereotype in Honduras that makes it extremely hard to get men to come to church, and seeing these men serving made my heart so happy to know that they have truly got it, and are shining their light for Jesus in this community. We put on a one night youth retreat on new year’s eve and day. The youth absolutely loved this time together to get away from everyday life to be able to let loose, have fun, and focus on Jesus. Our new year celebration was filled with singing, dancing, teaching and powerful prayer. Through all of these things God’s spirit was ever so present. One of my favorite parts was the prayer stations. We set up different prayer stations that helped us focus on a certain area of prayer. The stations included: thankfulness, encouragement, lost friends, Christians/missionaries in persecuted places, and sin controlling our lives. I loved seeing everyone slowly making their way around the room spending personal time with God, truly thinking about and taking advantage of the amazing gift of prayer that God has given to us.
The people who make up the New Desire Christian Church are some of the most loving people you will ever meet in this world. It never ceases to amaze me how willing they are to serve and give to others in order to spread the light of Jesus even when they themselves have so little. I know God is at work in this church. You can feel His presence throughout the service and can see the joy and peace that only comes from truly knowing Him radiating off the faces of the people of the church. They are so eager to serve and evangelize, something that is lacking in so many churches today in America. I ask you to join me in prayer for these people, even though we are many miles apart we are still part of the same family, the same church body, and serve the same almighty God. I can’t wait ti see what the future holds for New Desire Honduras, and I know it will be great because God is working in the lives of the people in and through this ministry. 
I am Will Spears and I just love Jesus.

​Honduras Needs: (Please see the note at the bottom of this page )
 
Over the Counter medications such as:
 
Tylenol (All Ages)
Ibuprofen
Cough Syrup (All Ages)
Cold and flu medications
Fungal cream
Eye drops
Ear drops
Peroxide
Alcohol
Eye glasses
Medications for a variety of stomach issues
NyQuil
Hydrocortizone cream 
Benadryl
Neosporin
Pain Relief cream (muscle/joint/bone pain)
Burn cream
Hand sanitizer
Gloves
Gauze
Alcohol swabs
Band-aids
Medical tape
Cotton Balls
 
Infant Needs:
 
Small diaper bags
Receiving blankets
Diapers
Wipes
Infant medication with syringe
Onesies
Socks
 
School Supplies:
 
Ink pens
Pencils
Mechanical pencil sharpeners
Erasers
Notebooks
Backpacks
Colored Pencils
Scissors
Glue
Glue Sticks
 
Note:
It is easier to refill the supplies with monetary donations so that we can purchase the items in Honduras.  We have found that trying to ship these items each time we fly over is actually costing more than it would to purchase the items there.  If you would like to donate to fill our medical supplies, baby needs, school supplies, and the food kitchen, please send donations to New Desire Christian Ministries/Honduras General Fund. 
 

​Summer 2018 Update
It has been a great year so far in Honduras. In 2018 alone, we have seen 31 people give their hearts to Jesus. We baptized 19 people. The Holy Spirit has been moving in the lives of so many people in our community.
During the weekend of July 13-15, we had our second annual youth retreat. Including adults, we had around 100 people. We had been praying for quite some time for the moving of the Holy Spirit in the lives and hearts of all of us. I can tell you, we were not disappointed. Friday night we had our first service and immediately we began to see God work. Our kids were coming together and encouraging each other through prayer and this took place during the song service. We were in the middle of the preaching service, when I was called away to talk with one of our faithful teenagers. When I turned the corner, I saw him completely broken and crying uncontrollably. I asked him what was wrong and he told me that he wanted to be able to praise God freely. I asked him why he thought he wasn’t able to praise freely. I then asked him if he knew without a doubt that Christ lived in his heart. I must tell you, this young man has been coming to our church and serving faithfully for a very long time. We all thought he was saved, but this night the Holy Spirit showed him that he was lost and it was breaking his heart. Misael and I led him to the Lord that night. Oh, what a sweet thing to witness when a lost soul realizes he now has eternal life in Jesus Christ. Immediately, we returned to the join the service. When I turned the corner, I saw the most amazing thing taking place. The preaching was over and the invitation had been given, and one by one several youth had come forward to be saved. Most of them, were ones that we had been praying for quite some time. Each one of our leaders had their Bibles and was leading those kids to the Lord. That night, we had 7 souls saved. To God Be The Glory! It was a night we didn’t want to come to an end. 
The next day we had a day filled with many fun activities and more Bible classes. We had 2 saved that day. I remember one in particular that had come down for prayer. I prayed with him and asked him if he saved, and he told me yes. It really surprised me because from all I knew and had been told that he wasn’t saved but you really can’t question someone when they say yes. So, I prayed with him and I got up. Well, to my surprise he didn’t get up. I immediately knew something was wrong, so I bowed down beside him and asked him again, “Do you know without a doubt that if you die today you would be in heaven with Jesus”? This time, he started crying and told me “No, I’m not sure”. I am so thankful for the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. 
We are looking forward to seeing what else God has in store for us this year. Please keep us in your prayers.
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