COPECO

We have a busy day today. We are headed to the school this morning and then meet Pastor Leslie at 4 pm for the prayer meeting with the lady pastors. We took off to Samuel Raymond Christian School in Sandy Bay to meet with Fredy. We got to meet the director, Deborah Hunnicutt, who came to Roatan 4 years ago from Oklahoma. The school building is less than a year old and they currently have 32 students in grades K – 4. All of the kids are on scholarships, most of which comes from Deborah’s church members in Oklahoma. We spoke to Fredy about his cousin and told him that we were very interesting in meeting him. He stopped right then, got out his cell phone and called his cousin Andy Lopez. He set up a meeting for 2 pm this afternoon. We told Fredy that we would meet up with him in a couple of hours and we took off to pick up our laundry and have lunch at Anthony’s Key Resort before our meeting. Our waiter’s name was Marcos and we asked how we could pray for him. He said he was married with 3 kids and would like prayer for him and his family’s spiritual growth. Before we left he invited us to his church. We ran back to Casa Isabella to find out from Elmer the place we were going to meet Pastor Leslie at 4:00 pm. She had called but she still didn’t know exactly where the meeting was to be held. So we left and picked up Fredy at Bo Jangles restaurant in Coxen Hole. We headed to French Harbour to meet his cousin Andy Lopez. From our meeting with Andy, we learned that there is an emergency response government agency for Honduras called COPECO. Andy is the head of COPECO for all the islands in Honduras. He is responsible for any emergency situations that arise on any of the islands and the water surrounding them. He is also responsible for any preventive action such as spraying for mosquitoes, getting prepared for hurricanes, and making sure that all parts of the islands get access to medical needs, etc. For example: if a house burns to the ground his team will set up a tent for housing and give them food until the house is rebuilt and they are back on their feet. We told Andy that Carlos had mentioned that he may be taking medical teams to Guanaja because of the lack of doctors. Andy said he currently did not have anyone in the U.S. working on organizing some medical teams to send over. We told Andy that we were very interested in being the ones to organize and coordinate the medical teams to send over to help his department. He was very open to this idea and we spend the next half hour discussing it. John told Andy that we were Christians and asked if the teams we sent would be free to share their faith – he said no problem. He told us he was having a meeting with the heads of the emergency departments like police, fire fighters and medical personnel on Friday. He then wants to have another meeting with us on Wednesday week to discuss details that will be coming out of that meeting. Fredy would be his project coordinator, so he would be our contact person. We then took Fredy back to Bo Jangles. Before we dropped him off, we got him to call Elmer about the details of the meeting at 4:00 pm with Pastor Leslie. We picked up Pastor Leslie in front of the Baptist Orphanage in Gravel Bay. She directed us down a little dirt road to the Living Faith Assembly Church. There were 9 women Pastors and 1 male Pastor who was our interpreter. They prayed and worshiped for about 30 minutes and then Bev got to speak to them about revival. Bev felt like it was received well. One thing that everybody agreed on was the island has a spirit of religion over it. It is amazing to watch how God is orchestrating all of our connections to people for us. On Tuesday, August 12, when we were talking to the Banana Donut Guy’s wife, she told us that her nephew was a pastor and was probable someone we would like to meet. She had given us his name and phone number. Well it turns out that Tristan, the only male pastor at this meeting, is her nephew. He and his wife pastor an English and Spanish church in Sandy Bay. Tristan invited us to an English speaking bible study on Thursday to talk about what God is doing in our lives. At the end of the meeting they prayed to break down barriers between churches and for revival. It was very exciting to learn that they actually anoint the island once a year: by plane, boat, and land. Tristan is the President of all the local pastor’s on Roatan. He said this year he was involved in the anointing of the island by air. He said it was quite an experience to be flying with the door of the plane open trying to pour the oil out. He said on top of that it was raining. As we were leaving, we were invited by Pastor Carold Brooks of the Assembly Church to come back and share at her church Tuesday week at 7 pm. We took Pastor Leslie home to her apartment in Coxen Hole and she invited us to have dinner with her on Friday night at Geo’s in Flower’s Bay. We then headed back to Casa Isabella. Our heads are spinning with everything that happened today. When we got back we listened to some of our anointing prayer that we had at our church before we left. We felt like it was confirming some of the possibilities and opportunities that took place today. Thank you for all your prayers.

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Hello! We are John & Bev Atkins, founders of Mission Revive.  We are excited to share our journey with you! Please feel free to browse all of the blog to see what God has been doing on the island of Roatan over the past 5 years!! :) 

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