Henderson Missionary Family

The Honduras Baptist Dental Mission is now starting to heat up for the year and it has been such a blessing to see God’s will being done through the people.  The second team of the year was the Ronnie Norris team from Arkansas.  They were a team of 48 people so not all of them could fit on one flight.  There were 14 of them that came a day early due to the size of the team.  All was well up until the next day.  The other part of the team was awaiting their flight when they found out that their flight had been cancelled due to a flight attendant not showing up.  The airline put everyone on a different flight and flew them to Houston later that day but could not send them here to Honduras after that.  They stayed the night in a hotel then got up and flew here the next morning.  While all of this was going on, the other part of the team had to make a decision on whether to go out into the field and only work for two days or stay in El Plan and work at our on-site clinic. We have recently finished a dental/medical clinic in the compound that is set up to see medical, dental, and optical patients.  They chose to stay and work the clinic all week which turned out to be the best.  When the other part of the team got here on Sunday they all worked to get the clinic ready for the week.  The next day, they started seeing patients and as God’s plan continued to unveil the first person to come in the clinic was a man who was in a diabetic coma.  If we wouldn’t have been there that week, the man would not have lived to see the next day. Some other people formed evangelism groups to go out and witness to people.  I decided to go out into the village with the guys in the evangelism groups.  The first day we just stayed around close to the compound and went to different houses sharing the gospel.  I pretty much just gave out Bibles and said, “Dios le bendiga” which means God bless you in Spanish.  The next day we went to a school in another little village right across the main road.  We went around to the classrooms and told the kids to tell their parents about the clinic and we also told them about Jesus.  There was a little place to buy drinks and baleadas (See previous post for explanation) inside the school.  The principal told us that we could have a free drink and a free baleada so that was a very good part of that day! The next day, which was the last day, we went to another school and did the same thing.  We walked back to the compound that day and on the way back we went door to door and shared Jesus with the people.  We stopped at this one house and Michael, one of the guys from the team, asked me if I wanted to share with the two women that were there.  I couldn’t turn him down so I started asking them questions and telling them about God’s grace and they came to know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.  It was a great feeling to lead my first two people to Christ and to know that I will see both of those women again one day.  There were a lot of great people on that team.  Michael used to be a missionary in Uruguay so he and I connected very well.  He gave me a lot of advice that will help me here.  There was another guy who was out witnessing that really impacted me.  His name is Jim Whitaker.  We talked a lot about everything and I am really glad that I got to work with these men of God.  My birthday was during their time here and Jim gave me a Jesus Calling devotion that was signed by the whole team.  They really made my 16^th birthday a special day to me.  As we are still here in El Plan, I ask that you will continue to pray for me and my family as well as the mission.  Thank you all for supporting us in the past and in the days to come!

God Bless,

Brantley Henderson

Have you ever heard of the place Copan?  You probably have not and you should consider yourself lucky.  The previous team stopped by these ancient Mayan ruins on the way back from the village a few weeks ago.  When we got there I found out that it was a tour guided event, so I, my dad, Andrew (the other missionary’s son) and Ricardo (a 15 year old translator) stayed out of the tour.  There was a little place to get something to eat right outside of the tour, so we went and ate the Honduran special, baliadas.  It is basically beans, eggs, cheese, sour cream and lettuce all wrapped in a flour tortilla.  Once you’ve eaten one you’ve eaten them all.  After that, we heard that it was going to be another two hours before the team would be out of the tour.  We then decided to take a Moto-Taxi into the city of Copan.  For those of you who don’t know what a Moto-Taxi is, it is a vehicle that is pretty much like a four-wheeler with a cover on the top that drives on the main road.  Every town has at least twenty of these “taxis” that ride around and wait for people that need a ride.  So, I, my dad, Andrew, and Ricardo all pile into this motorized buggy and head into the town.  My dad rode up front with the driver and there was only one seat up front so he had to share with him. The other three of us rode in the back that is only designed for two people. The taxi would go about 30-40 MPH, which is very fast when you are in buggy with nothing preventing you from falling out. On top of all of this the driver was not what you would call safe.  If you were to look up “reckless driving” in the dictionary I’m pretty sure you would find a photo of this man.  At one point we were halfway on the curb and halfway on the road just cruising.  We got to the city and the roads were all laid with stone.  It looked like roads that would be in Italy or something.  The driver let us out and we all paid him 20 Lempiras each, which is a dollar. This shows you how cheap things like that are here.  We walked around the city for a few minutes and found a store that sold fake Justin cowboy boots. It wasn’t all bad though because the place had air conditioning and a television, in Spanish of course.  The lady in that store was always staring at us and thinking, “Either buy something or get out of my store you Gringos.”  By then it was time to head back. We took another Moto-Taxi back to the tour place but this taxi was not as fast this time.  It wasn’t as much of a thrill as the ride into the town.  When we got back we sat on a curb until the team got out of the tour.  During that time, we had all thought that we were closer to home than we were when we left the village.  I looked at our location on my phone and we actually drove two hours in the opposite direction to get to these precious ruins.  We were pretty frustrated at this point.  We left the village at nine that morning and didn’t get back until about eight that evening.  It was a pretty long day if you ask me, but I am glad that I experienced it so I know what to prepare for in the coming trips.  As we prepare for another team to get here on Friday, I keep hoping that there is not another Copan Ruinas somewhere in the depths of Honduras.  Please continue to pray for my family and the mission as a whole.  With prayer everything is limitless!

God Bless,

Brantley Henderson

Hola! We have just completed our first week out with a team from the United States. The team that traveled down was Bob Leal’s team from Arkansas.  We traveled into Honduras to the department of Copan to the town of Veracruz. Here the team set up medical, dental, optical, and pharmacy clinics to help the people of Veracruz. The team saw about 1500 people throughout the week. This team will always be a special team as it was my family and I’s first team as an associate missionary family.  This week we have all been a little “home sick” I guess you would call it. One major thing that opened my eyes was, when the team left yesterday it kind of became real to me that we would be staying. Please continue to pray for me and family as well as the whole mission.  I look forward to keeping all of you in touch with what we are doing down here.

God Bless,

Brantley Henderson

My name is Brantley Henderson and my family and I have recently moved to Honduras as full time missionaries.  The past couple of months have been very hectic due to all the packing and moving.  It has been kind of hard moving down here and leaving so many friends, family members, sports, church activities, etc. behind.  For example, I played my last basketball game this past Friday and that was a very emotional time. But, looking forward I have been trying to realize that it is all in God’s plan and He will take care of everything.  I have just started home school and I think it is going to take some time to get used to.  As time goes by I think it will start to sink in and hopefully it won’t be so abnormal.  As we are down here I ask you all to please pray for me and my family and the whole mission organization. With prayer a lot of things are possible that seem crazy from the outside.  

God Bless.