Mission UpReach Newsletter - May 2015

May 2015 Volume 8, Issue 5
Mission UpReach Newsletter
Six New AIMers Arrive
We are so blessed to be joined by
these six smiling faces as part
of the work here in Honduras. Back
(standing from left to right):
Kyle Frazier, Abbie Wilson. Second
row: Tristen Bowers,
Nathan Clark, Malia Davidson.
Third row: Dakota Nowell.
This past month six new AIMers
from the Sunset International
Bible Institute in Lubbock, TX
arrived to work with us for the next
22 months. This group is made up
of Abigail Wilson, Tristen Bowers,
Kyle Frazier, Nathan Clark, Dakota
Nowell, and Malia Davidson. Our
first order of business was to spend
three days in Capucas, Copán
(famous for its coffee production)
at a retreat where our MUR staff
and current AIM team could orient
the new arrivals.
Immediately after coming back
from the retreat, the new AIMers
left for Antigua, Guatemala for
three weeks of language training.
There they receive individual,
face-to-face instruction in
Spanish for 7 hours a day. Three
weeks in that kind of immersion
training is equivalent to a full
year of Spanish classes in a more
traditional setting. We expect
them to return well grounded in
the fundamentals of the language.
Some of them already have a good
working knowledge of Spanish. In
fact, Abbie Wilson lived in México
as child for five years. Abbie is
the younger sister of Rex Wilson,
who is on our current AIM team
that arrived here just over a year
ago. She and Rex are the children
of Dennis and Teresa Wilson
who were directors at Ciudad
de Ángeles in Cozumel, México,
which is an orphanage that Phil
and Donna Waldron helped found
almost 15 years ago. We are happy
to have these new volunteers.
They will be instrumental in
maintaining the momentum that
our first AIM team has built up
with the past year’s work.
See and read more in this issue: (l. to r.) Renee Fleming teaching us another language; our Boot Camp graduates at
the Baxter Seminar;, and the great work that visitors like the Edmund, OK group do for the of western Honduras..

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Visits of blessing
Edmond Church of Christ, Oklahoma
Evan Burkett, Campus Minister for the
Edmond Church of Christ, led a college group
down here that included Jaron Brandt, Forrest
Whiddon, Sean Bolin, Michaela Lawson, Tori
Smith, Paige Green, and Haley Goodin. Despite
being a small group, they accomplished many
good things. They spent part of their day
helping out with the construction of a small
warehouse to hold equipment and supplies
for our medical brigades and evangelistic
campaigns. Then in the afternoons, they
worked with our DESEO Team and helped with
our youth basketball league.
Renee Fleming, Legacy Church of Christ,
North Richland Hills, TX
Renee Fleming, a volunteer from the Legacy Church of
Christ in the Ft. Worth area, taught fifty of our people
sign language for three weeks. For a long time Mission
UpReach has wanted to be able to equip our local church
members with the ability to communicate with the deaf.
Recently, Renee retired from teaching full time and was
willing to come down here and hold these classes. It was
a tremendous success and we anticipate that this will
serve to launch our local church into year-round ministry
reaching out to the deaf community.
Local church growth continues with five more baptisms
Our local church, which a team of MUR employees
planted early last year, is continuing to see significant
growth. Just in the past month we have had five new
people put Jesus on in baptism. We are grateful for
this continued growth, but even more grateful for
the spiritual growth that we are seeing in individual
members through the excellent Sunday school program
for adults and children and through CRESCO, our
Saturday Bible school.

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2nd Mini-Boot Camp
We held our second mini-boot camp this past month in
Marcala, La Paz, located about four hours south of Santa
Rosa de Copán and the MUR offices. These short intensives
include close to 25 hours of class and training in a three day
period. Our goal for these sessions is to increase the number
of church leaders that we prepare and recruit more men to
come to the week-long sessions of our Boot Camp Leadership
Training Series in Santa Rosa. This time, we had 19 people in
attendance, including 13 men and six women. The evaluation
comments from the participants at the end of the session
reflect a high level of satisfaction with the results.
Mini-evangelistic campaign held in La Paz
Our church planting
team, accompanied by
men who are studying
in our Boot Camp
Leadership Training
Series, spent four days
in the community
of San José de Pane,
Guachipilin, La Paz.
Right now, there is
no existing Church
of Christ meeting in
the community. So,
in collaboration with
the Church of Christ in
Guachipilin, our team
and their students
evangelized and
preached throughout
the small community.
One man was baptized
and we believe more will
follow. The plans of the
brothers and sisters in
the Guachipilin church
is that San José de Pane
will soon have its own
congregation.
Baxter Seminar:
Each year our church planting team and a few selected graduates from
the Boot Camp Leadership Training Series travel together to the Baxter
Bible Institute Seminar
held in May. This year, 14
of our men and students
participated. We believe
this international seminar
does a great deal of good to
challenge our church leaders
and help them realize that
they are part of a movement
and not just isolated,
independent congregations
of the Lord’s church.

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A note
from Donna
Our summer brigade season has
begun! We look forward to sharing
with you all that God has done with
these wonderful volunteers over
the next two months. Our visitors
not only raise the money for their
own expenses, but they also bring
with them the money and other
resources to do the good works they
realize while here. This is a huge
blessing to our mission and the local
churches. If you want to know more
about organizing a group or joining
a group, please don’t hesitate to
contact me. We are already booking
groups for 2016.
In just a few days I will be
traveling to Shreveport, LA with
Cindy Sarahi Mendez. She is the
(now) young woman we have
been helping for some years that
had to have both legs amputated.
Cindy has to periodically return
to the Shriner’s Hospital for new
prosthesis due to growth and the
wear and tear of them. Getting her
ready to go is no small task. We have
invested hours of time getting her
passport renewed, obtaining a visa
from the US Embassy, and arranging
to move her care to Shreveport
from Tampa. We did this because
the family who has so graciously
cared for her over the years moved
to Searcy, AR, necessitating us
finding a family closer to one of the
Shriner’s facilities. Dwayne and
Sherry Simpson in Longview, TX
have agreed to host Cindy for the
2 months it will take to make her
new prosthesis and receive physical
therapy. Cindy’s father is very ill.
This also complicated us getting the
visa due to the fact that he could
not be present for the appointment.
God opened doors, just like He has
done throughout this process with
Cindy! We feel honored to be able
to continue to be a part of what God
is doing in Cindy’s life. Please pray
for her and her host family in the
months ahead.
Planned Giving
Available
Remember that with
Mission UpReach now
having official IRS 501(c)
(3) status you can leave
a bequest in your will
that will bless future
generations with new
church plants in western
Honduras. All you need
to do is include Mission
UpReach, Inc. in your will
stating what size of bequest
you would like to make.
Change of
Address
As of January 2015 we have
changed our mailing
address to the following:
Mission UpReach, Inc.
1809 W Loop 281
Ste. 100, PMB 107
Longview, TX 75604
Please send all checks,
donations and correspondence
to this new address in
Longview, Texas.
You can still correspond
directly with us at:
In the midst of her father’s illness, God opened doors for us to obtain Cindy’s new
visa to return to the states for her new prosthesis.
Phil and Donna Waldron
Apartado Postal #255
Santa Rosa de Copán, Copán
Honduras, Central America
waldronfam@me.com
Phone: 706-534-7060