by Jerry on September 1, 2010
We are off and running as we enter what is already a tiring week. Sunday night Rev. Evan Drake, president of our mission, began a three-night series of meetings about the biblical family. Families are just as dysfunctional here as they are in the U. S. Each night’s meetings were very well attended and he really seemed to have everyone’s attention.
Rev. Evan Drake - marriage seminar
Monday night, Evan broke out of his outline briefly to talk about purity before marriage. At then end of the meeting, he invited the young people to come forward if they were serious about remaining pure until marriage. There was a pause of maybe 20-30 seconds and then one young lady came to the front. Then all or nearly all the others came forward too. Next Evan asked if there were any couples who wanted to improve their marriages. In about a minute the front of the church was pretty packed. What made this surprising was that he did not make a lengthy invitation, and he didn’t apply any pressure. He just said to come if you want to do this and he let the Holy Spirit do the convincing.
Dr. Eugene Priddy - preaching in West End
At 1st Baptist Church - West End
Sunday morning, our founding president, Dr. Eugene Priddy, spoke down in West End. At the end of the service, a man came forward to receive Christ. Pastor Bush asked me to pray with him as he surrendered to his Savior and King. What a wonderful privilege to be there to witness a new birth. Pastor Bush said the man had been coming to church for a while and they had talked several times about his need and Sunday was the day he finally took that all important step. Several people have recently trusted Christ at that church and are continuing to attend, read their Bibles, and grow in faith. I’m very excited about what the Lord is doing through Pastor Bush in West End. Even so, as he told me the other day, the need seems to be growing faster than we can reach people with the good news.
After church on Sunday, we (the visitors from BBI and the Radio HRGS staff) went to the Argentine Grill in West End for “lunch.” I put “lunch” in quotes because [click to continue…]
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by Jerry on August 29, 2010
But it was a good one. As I’ve mentioned, we have some of our leaders here this weekend from the Bible Basics home office. The reason they chose this particular time was to participate in the celebration of Dr. Glen Solomon’s 50 years in the ministry. Dr. Solomon is president of Baptist Ministries of Honduras, the organization that has invited Bible Basics to be here and operate Radio HRGS.
The celebration began, theoretically, at 2:00 Saturday afternoon. We got there at about 1:45, expecting a packed house and looking for a good seat. It actually started at about 2:35. Not bad considering that we are on “island time” here. We found good seats and the house was packed soon after we got there. There were many tributes and lots of music. The mayor and the congressman each shared briefly. There was even a contingent from the Baptist church in La Ceiba, over on the coast. They brought their choir and, as always, did an outstanding job. This little video contains excerpts from several of the tributes as well as tastes of most of the songs sung that afternoon. I hope it gives some idea of the variety of worship music popular among islanders and a sense of what it’s like to attend an island church.
Celebration Vignettes from Jerry Petersen on Vimeo.
by Jerry on August 26, 2010
Tomorrow is the big day! Well, it’s another big day, anyway. We have lots of them here. We’re getting ready for a visit from our founding president of Bible Basics International, Dr. Eugene Priddy; our current president, Rev. Evan Drake; the vice president of International Ministries, Rev. Herman Meister; and BBI’s Spanish director, Rev. Samuel Montoya. This weekend is the celebration of 50 years of ministry for Dr. Glen Solomon, the president of Baptist Ministries here, and these men are coming to participate. They will also be conducting some seminars in the days to come. Herman even said he would help fix the mower and then use it if we get it going.
At the bottom of this entry, you’ll find this week’s HRGS Update. Once again, we had way too much fun with that! But first, let me tell you another reason why being flexible isn’t enough for Roatán missionaries. We need to be liquid. That’s why I’ve included this sunset I shot a few weeks ago to help calm me down. 
In an effort to get things looking a little less “lived in,” I wanted to finish setting up the new work station I’m building for our studio operations. That project has been sprawled all over the reception desk and the plan was to get it done and into place on Wednesday. I didn’t want our president to walk in and have the first thing he saw be computer parts scattered all over. He probably wouldn’t mind, but I would. However, at about noon on Tuesday, the florescent light in the on air studio quit. It would have been nice if it was just burned out bulbs, so that was obviously not the case.
First thing, Wednesday morning, I went to the shop to get my electrician’s tool belt. When I got to the shop, it was hot, hot, hot!! No air conditioner. The line conditioner that we had installed recently blew its fuse, probably because of abuse from the power company the night before. I briefly lamented the fact that it uses a fuse instead of a breaker. (Peter hadn’t noticed that when he bought it because he thought it was the same as the one he’d gotten previously for his house.) Then I dug out a 10 amp fuse, put it in the fuse holder, and found out that the fuse holder was just a tiny bit smaller than the fuse. I tried to pull it back out and the end came off the glass fuse. When I tried to pull out the remains of the fuse, they just crumbled. Sigh! So much for hurrying up to replace the light ballast so I could get back to what I needed to be doing.
I rooted around and found a fuse holder that takes a normal sized fuse and soldered it temporarily in place until we can get the right circuit breaker and install it. I fired up the air conditioner and the compressor did not run. Now what!! I eventually found a loose connection in the control section of the A/C and was finally able to get back to the original interruption, replacing the ballast in the on-air studio light fixture. I think I got to work on the computer for about 30 minutes Wednesday. Oh well! Since today is our day off, I didn’t touch it today. I still have till about 11:00 tomorrow morning to check all the satellite downloads and get that computer wrapped up and put in a better place. No pressure.
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