A Desperate Prayer

Good afternoon all!

I am writing to ask anyone who may read this to be in fervent prayer for the people of Honduras. I hope that you have heard something about the situation on the news, although I would doubt it's accuracy. My mom has been to Honduras for many years in a row now. Her church visits the same mission there and has developed close relationships with those who run the mission. They are truly lovers of God and only recently has there ever been a political aspect to their relationship. But recent events have necessitated it.

Rwanda's "civil war" 15 years ago is an issue very close to my heart. The fact that it was so poorly represented in the news at the time, coupled with the fact that even though the West was aware of the injustice and didn't care enough to stop it, is enough to dredge up similar fears. Though I rarely concern myself with the news these days, I could not help but be intensely fearful for the people of Honduras whose voices are being silenced through inaccurate news reports and corrupt or misguided government officials scrambling to disguise the reasons behind the justified stand the people there have taken.

My mom has received several emails from various members of the mission there in Honduras, and they have expressed their being appalled at the lack of news coverage here in the US, or the extreme inaccuracy of it. We, as well as every single person my mom's heard from in Honduras, are very concerned that putting someone like Zelaya back into power would quickly lead to a Russian/Chinese Iron/Bamboo Curtain, and would jeopardize the amazing ministries they have going on over there.

I don't mean to rant & rave, and I don't mean to get all news-y and political, but as it's come to my attention, I am very concerned myself for the people there. Every year, my mom has come back from Honduras with amazing stories of God's compassion and saving grace for the people there, and she is always so moved that God has allowed her to be a part of something so awesome. It is no wonder that Honduras, a place where Christ's love has been particularly fervent in the mountain villages that she has visited, is under heavy attack as a country. I know that when the gospel spreads, so does persecution. But I don't want to abandon our brothers & sisters in Christ there, or the lost people still in need of the freedom of sharing the gospel, to a prayer-less predicament. I want them to know that some of us in the States are united in prayer for them.

Please pray for the people of Honduras, that God will protect them from unjust "leadership", and that our President will mind his own mounting shortcomings instead of hypocritically getting involved in another country's affairs. Pray that God will provide the people of Honduras with someone that is actually interested in the freedoms and liberties of the people, not in "electing the right official" (read "bribing into power a shamelessly corrupt dictator"). And pray for our own country and president--we should be promoting a government by, for, and of the people; to reference a letter written by the wife of former ambassador for Honduras to Spain and US, our president is in bed with all the wrong people on this issue. And it does not set a good precedent for our country's leader's stance on our own civil liberties!


Ok, I'll get off my soapbox. But please be praying!