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From Coffee House to Classrooms: Part 2 With Bro. Joel Sneed
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Four Corners Global Outreach emerged from humble beginnings in 2017 when founder Joel Sneed felt divine direction to establish a coffee business that would fund mission work. By 2019, this vision had expanded into a full-fledged nonprofit operating alongside God's Little One in Honduras, bringing transformation to both mountain villages and dangerous urban neighborhoods.
One of there projects is the distribution of ingenious water filtration systems that cost just $25 each but provide families with clean drinking water for up to 20 years. Rather than positioning themselves as a humanitarian organization, Four Corners uses these practical tools to open doors for Gospel presentation, creating relationships that lead to spiritual transformation. They've distributed hundreds of filters throughout Honduras in communities where contaminated water creates serious health issues.
Perhaps their most ambitious undertaking is Bright Minds Christian Academy, a bilingual school serving children in the Limpera Mountains. What began with just ten students has become a pathway to opportunity for children who previously had no educational options. These students, who initially spoke only Spanish, have made such remarkable progress that they now prefer speaking English—positioning them for future leadership roles both locally and globally. This school represents the long-term vision of Four Corners: raising up indigenous leaders who will transform their own communities.
The ministry doesn't shy away from challenging environments, regularly venturing into what locals call "hot areas"—neighborhoods where violence can be commonplace. In these communities, they've witnessed extraordinary spiritual breakthroughs, including the conversion of a gang member who now serves God faithfully. Whether preaching in pouring rain under a simple shed or going door-to-door in dangerous neighborhoods, Four Corners embodies a mission philosophy centered on following God's leading regardless of comfort or convenience.
Want to experience how international mission work can transform not just those being served but also those who serve? Go on a mission trip and discover how stepping out of your comfort zone can change your perspective forever. As Brother Joel says, "Just go, and watch what it does to you, watch what it does to your family. You'll come back home and everything inside of you has changed."
Hey everybody, welcome back to the God's Little One podcast. I'm your host, Kent, and today we are continuing our conversation with Brother Joel Sneed with Part 2. Thank you for being here still, Brother.
Speaker 2:Yes thank you for having me back, Brother Kent. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:So to start this podcast off, the first one, as I've already said, but I'm going to say it again, was pointed towards God's little one in your beginnings and missions work. This one we're going to be talking more recent in the last few years. When did y'all start? 2019, we established that In 2019, you and your church, y'all started Four Corners Global Outreach. So, to start out this podcast, why don't you explain what Four Corners is?
Speaker 2:Okay, before I explain that, I will say that I believe I mentioned this in the first and part one of this podcast. We are a sister nonprofit with God's little one. We communicate often. Everything we do, we communicate and we communicate well. We're a nonprofit that was founded basically not just for mission in another country. We were founded to have mission work here as well. We have a lot of things that we do here in the States. We're not focused on just one area in Honduras even. We're all over the place in Honduras. We go in the city and we also go up in the mountains. So I have a trip scheduled now in the July taking our school kids over to work in some schools and do some kids crusades, and we will be preaching a couple nights too. So we're pretty. We do a lot of of things we're not just focused on. I know a lot of people feel that we are focusing on water filters or we, but y'all got a lot y'all do we do it, we do a lot, and I like it, like that yeah, we're gonna.
Speaker 1:So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take one step of a step at a time, uh, talking about everything that I know y'all do and y'all you tell me what else I miss, and we'll go like that. But the first thing I want to ask is where did this come from? Where did this whole idea of Four Corners come from?
Speaker 2:Okay, well, back probably in 2017, the Lord began to deal with me and this is a strange story, but about a coffee house, and the name of the coffee house was Four Corners Coffee House. We did that, but the Lord really dealt with me about establishing this nonprofit through that coffee house and utilize the funding from that coffee house to build this thing, and that's what we did. So originally it started from a coffee house. We just would take money from that coffee house and build towards this nonprofit, and it helped pay for all sorts of things over the years. So that's where it originated from. We built off of that and we're still connected. We still have a coffee truck, and so we're still connected with that in a pretty good way.
Speaker 1:So what was y'all's goals whenever y'all first started?
Speaker 2:Our goals were to help with God's little one. That was one of our main goals. To expand, I think, would be a good, because we have a lot of people here that are very interested in mission work.
Speaker 2:So I knew that, in order for us to be more involved, we needed something right here so we could go just back and forth. So that's one of the things that. But of course again, we're a sister to God's little one. So just to give you a For example, in areas where there's feeding stations, we came in behind them with water filters. So we're not a humanitarian act. We use the water filters as tools to get into the location. So we go into places where the feeding stations that God's little one has already established and we bring those water filters there and try our best to do that.
Speaker 1:We're going to get into really big details about those water filters and stuff. I've never got to see them used. I've seen them and we're going to get into detail with that because that's really cool stuff. The next thing I want to ask you what kind of challenges did y'all face starting this organization?
Speaker 2:Probably, and I'm just going to be very transparent here today. I would say probably the finance part of that, because it's extremely it's a lot of money.
Speaker 2:It's a lot of money, and starting out anything you start out, that's one of the things you're going to be lacking. So we always dream bigger than what we're really able to maintain. I feel like if a person don't go over their goal, then it's really not a goal. I want to have a vision of something that I can't even feel like I can get to. So probably finance, because I have a lot of things in my mind right now that I feel like the Lord has given me that I would like to see grow, you know, and so I would say, probably finance. That's what I think about, a lot, you know. So, yeah, finance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, finances are always an issue with missions, because it's just, you can have times where you don't have the money Right, it's just part of life, it's facts.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's a, it's a constant it never goes away. It never goes yeah because when you go to sleep at night, you have something that you want to do, right. You know whether it be here or in honduras. You have something you want to do and it takes funding right that's like whenever we was working on the glow center.
Speaker 1:Money was always an issue that's exactly right we would get money and we would do what we could, and then we'd have to wait for more money to come in right so, and even after that, it's always been an issue. So, yeah, that's in, but it's grown. Yeah, the Lord, the Lord's really blessed.
Speaker 2:He knows what he's doing, you know and and I think we worry when we shouldn't worry. You know it's it's the, it's the human way. That's what we worry when we shouldn't have to worry. You know he's going to take care of us. He's going to, he's going to make sure it's done. He's already proved that to us time and time again.
Speaker 1:So I think I know the answer to this. I'm just going to let you tell me what was the first ways you all worked with God's little one.
Speaker 2:The first way. Oh, it would be toys.
Speaker 1:It was the toys Toy drives.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we would just take groups over and do toy drives and go to feeding stations and let people see what we're involved in. That right, there is how we got started. I think together Before we were even doing water filters, we were connected.
Speaker 1:I think y'all also helped us get food, if I remember.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've done that a couple of times. There's a location that we were able to get into and contact and they were able to help us a few times and get pretty good, large amounts of food over. So yeah, we helped with that some too.
Speaker 1:We just loaded up a container.
Speaker 2:Y'all brought up there of food, yes sir.
Speaker 1:And that is. I remember we had a time where we I think we ran out of food and y'all found us a place and y'all started running us food.
Speaker 2:That was the Lord. It was like right on time, right on time. He had just ran out of it. I'm talking about the week before. It was right on time. He's always on time, oh always on time.
Speaker 1:So now I want to talk about the water filters and stuff, because I love the whole story about that. So explain where the idea is. We're going to take our time with this slowly, just break it down.
Speaker 2:To start out, where's the idea for doing the water filters? Well, we have a, we have a core group here at four corners, global and, uh, those guys, they work very very hard.
Speaker 2:They do a lot of things that nobody sees. They maintain things that I don't. I don't maintain. I'm surrounded by a great group of people, first of all, that's how this thing operates. It's, it's not. It's not me. Uh, I'm not a very smart person, but I'm surrounded by people that are. So they do that and they came up Kent.
Speaker 2:We were looking for a way to get into places that we couldn't normally get into. So how can we do that? What can we offer these people? To go there and preach the gospel? What can we offer? Again, I'll say we're not a humanitarian group. We're not trying to change.
Speaker 2:Brother Daniel told me one time I gave a young man a necklace that I had. That was very dear to me. The little boy, he was probably about nine. That was probably one of my first trips over. I gave it to him. Brother Daniel said son, you can't give all your stuff away. You can't give all your stuff away. So we're not there to change, to give Honduras clean water. I am thankful for that. They have clean water. I'm thankful for that. But we use that as a tool basically to get into locations, and that's where that group of people that surround me, they came up with that idea and plan and they put all that together and we're able to contact people to help us get started. They know the right people. Still today they're in contact with people, some, that I have never spoken to. So yeah, that's how it got started.
Speaker 1:So can you go explain the need of, why they need the water filters and stuff?
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah. Everywhere you go there, just about everywhere, the water's contaminated. I mean, it's not good, even in the city. I'll tell you, they had a hurricane right there in La Lima, honduras, a few years ago and it destroyed their water system completely. So they're living right there in town, right there in the city, rather, and they don't even have water to drink. You know, they got a river running right there beside them. So so those, what those water filters do they? You can take a a five gallon bucket, something that we just throw away, and and put attach that filter to that bucket and they can literally go down to that river and get some of that water, no matter what's in it, right, and, and it gets all the impurities out. And that filter, if they continue to use it the right way, it'll last them 20 years. That's a long time, that's, that's a very long time. So, uh, that that, but, but their water is contaminated it's horrible.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the parasites and stuff, it's horrible. Yes, sir, like we always go, and when I go on a trip, I I repeatedly say it do not drink the water yes, sir and we've had people on trips who have drank the water and they've got sick. Yeah, the only person that I know of who goes and drinks the water is uncle joey he's the only one I know he's the only one. I went up there and he and he tells me oh, I drink the water I take showers I, he don't, it don't bother him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we take showers in it, but we don't drink it. No, sir, and I'm pretty sure if I, if I say this a lot, but their lifespan, people in Honduras, their lifespan is shorter because they're drinking contaminated water.
Speaker 2:Right, absolutely, yeah, absolutely. So that's another thing. I mean, it's a good help to them, yeah, and we're thankful for that. I don't want to just make it sound like yeah, and we're thankful for that, and they are. They're extremely I love. There's nothing more I love than to go into a community and see a water filter that we passed out three years ago and it's still in full operation in their home. I love that.
Speaker 1:I've actually got a picture on my phone. We went you know Broderick Clark, we went on his first trip. We actually talked about that on a podcast and we went on his first trip. We actually talked about that on a podcast. And we went on a trip uh, last year, that was the trip I went on last year and we got to go to a village that had one of them water water filters in there, so I got to go see it in a village.
Speaker 1:I got a picture. I'll show it to you when we're done with this podcast, but actually, uh, I do. So I got something I like to do whenever I do a podcast. I rarely do it, but I'm gonna do it on this one. I'll go on facebook and I'll put something on facebook that we talked about. I'm actually going to go take if you could send me pictures of the water filters and stuff yeah and just send me some pictures of all the missions work y'all have done.
Speaker 1:Send it to me and I'm going to put them on facebook for people to see what's going on absolutely so the water filters are really cool. It's something I I love seeing yeah I. I think it's cool that we do that, because we feed them the food.
Speaker 1:They're malnourished up there. So we give them the food, but then we also give them the water, or y'all give them the water filters and stuff. It's really powerful. You kind of talked about it and I was actually going to ask you about the impact you've seen. What reactions have you seen from people?
Speaker 2:Well, the last I would call it a campaign with the water filters was down in the city.
Speaker 2:Yeah water filters was down in the city. Yeah, and we were there and, uh, we brother joey was with me on that trip and we talked to 30 pastors and basically trying to convince them to allow us to work with their churches, bring those filters in. Yeah, see, and and and help them. We wanted to help them. We let them know that and and they received us, and so I don't know, it's a lot.
Speaker 2:I've got a program on my iPad that shows where we have filters at in the country, every location. I can take you back to that filter that you just told me. You saw. I can find it on my iPad. I can go to where that filter is. They have barcodes on them and so when we pass them out, we can keep track of where they're located.
Speaker 2:But anyway, so in this location it's a lot of villages, 30 churches, so it's almost 30 different villages, and in one village you may have 250 families. So those water filters are about $25 a piece. So if you do the math, it's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. So it took us two years, two complete years, solid years and we completed those 30 churches. We went to 30 villages in two years. As a matter of fact, this past year, at the latter part of the year, we completed that project. But in that project I can tell you we saw because the places we were there were extremely dangerous, very dangerous gang-related activity all around, and we went into the thing probably in the dark, we really didn't know. So we learned a lot there.
Speaker 2:But I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1:So you'd say y'all got 30 churches. Who's got them? Is that about the estimate of how many people got it?
Speaker 2:Oh no, sir, it's up, probably because that's 30 churches. You're talking about 250 different families.
Speaker 1:So you're giving them to all the families.
Speaker 2:Yeah, every family gets a filter. Oh wow, every family gets a filter. Yes, sir, so you can say basically 150, 200 people times that 30. Wow, so that's, it's a lot. It's a lot. That's why it took us two years.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that makes a lot more sense I mentioned the finance.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's why it took us two years that makes sense.
Speaker 1:I get that. That's crazy. So, moving on from the waterfowl, because there's more that we get to talk about, is the school. Yeah, so explain where the idea for the school came and just talk about what I mean by a school.
Speaker 2:Okay. So we got a burden, you know, for the location where God's little one is at, up in the Lepere Mountains. We got a burden for that location, for a school, and I talked to Brother Danny and he called me and he said listen, if you want to do it, go with it, do it. So when he said that, all of a sudden I got this obvious fear over me. I don't even know what we're going to do. But the Lord began to help us and we have a school here in the States, here at Full Gospel, we have a school, cornerstone and so we took some of the base foundational things that they have at Cornerstone Christian Academy and we met with people that are actually over those things in other countries and they put those things together. So we flew to Honduras. I took our principal, our administrator, their family, and we went there and met with these people and they explained to us how to make the operation work and this is a big deal.
Speaker 2:But today this is a bilingual school. So you got right now. It's not large, it has 10 kids in it and they're there. The school is being built right now. Actually, we just last week got the money to finish the foundation inside the school. So we're getting very anxious. We're ready to see that in fruition. But yeah, we have 10 kids there and I'll tell you what one day we're going to look back. You may do another podcast with me one day, 10 years from now, and somebody out of that class will be our interpreter. Oh yeah. So the Lord, he's got a plan. I don't know it fully, but I want to be a part of it. I believe these kids they did not know one single word. All they knew was Spanish when they came into this thing. They don't even speak in Spanish anymore. I mean, it's absolutely amazing what the Lord is doing there. I love it.
Speaker 1:So I know y'all got a teacher up there. I've met her several times. How did y'all get in contact with her? Brother Luis Vargas, okay, he found her.
Speaker 2:He did yeah.
Speaker 1:He located her. Let us know that it has worked out beautifully, beautifully. Yeah, I know, I've seen. I didn't I I. That's the one thing I never knew. I never knew how y'all got in contact. That was through brother louis vargas.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he didn't really know her, I don't think, but he knew of her yeah and she's actually from uh gracias, this is about 30 minutes uh outside of uh la compa. So we went up and she was actually in the meeting. She took a bus all the way down to El Progreso and met us there and we had a day long meeting with these instructors and she was there. She learned a lot there.
Speaker 1:She's fabulous, yeah, so what kind of difficulties did y'all face?
Speaker 2:I think I know, but right now, uh, honestly, is the paperwork, the, the, the paperwork, the legalities of an actual school? Because we're doing that school, just like we do our school here, from the ground up, every single we want everything to be extremely legal in the country of Hunter by the book.
Speaker 2:We want it to be by the book. So when we get a school of 40 and 50 kids, the government's not going to look at us and say you can't do that, all our kids are going to. So we want to be legal, because I know the Lord's in this and we want it to be all right. So we have talked and talked and talked with lawyer after lawyer and we have men in places in Honduras that I've never met only over the phone, places in Honduras that I've never met only over the phone, and they're working trying to get, and again, finance.
Speaker 2:You know you don't just call an auditor and say hey, I need you to do something for me and it's free, it's not free, you know. So another thing would be that but people give, people do they give, you know. I'll tell you one thing when it comes to kids and they see these kids, we get Miss Karen to video them and send us the video. And when people see that, when they see the change that's taking place in those kids, they'll give, they'll give. So we appreciate everybody that gives.
Speaker 1:It's one of the cutest things. You see them kids all just walk out of that school room. It's so cute.
Speaker 2:I love it.
Speaker 1:And I'm going to, like I said with the Facebook thing, I'm going to put a video of that on there as well, or some pictures and stuff. And I know, didn't y'all have a graduation for the kids? We did.
Speaker 2:They were all. We started our school a little different than most people do. We started with a kindergarten based on not their age. We have some in there that probably are old enough to be in like the third grade, but they they weren't. They knew nothing. Yeah, I mean they never. They never been to school, so, uh, so there's a lot. There's a few different entries, so we did like a little graduation we went over and and we bought them all, uh, caps and gowns, and we had a big meal for them and they appreciated. We gave them a little diploma you know, it was.
Speaker 2:It wasn't really, I guess, legal there. You know what I'm saying their paperwork. We're still working on that. But in Honduras, as long as you're working towards the right way, they're okay. They're okay with it.
Speaker 1:yeah, and if y'all want to see anybody listening, wants to see more from the y'all, can go look at y'all's Facebook page.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:I want to say Four Corners Global.
Speaker 2:Outreach and the tag on that will be Bright Minds Christian Academy.
Speaker 1:Okay, yeah, yeah and go look at that and you can get to see more of that and just see more of what they've been doing and stuff. So I don't know if there's—that's the base of what I know of what y'all do. I don Tell me what else y'all do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're so involved with God's Little One Any trip. I talked to Brother Danny here probably about a month ago and he said y'all need to get together he's pastoring now and get a pastor's conference together. So I'm looking forward to that and we do those things still, and those are some of the things that we do, but we're based, based. We're looking right now at that school and yeah, getting that school.
Speaker 2:That's priority, right, yeah now we do have a couple more things going right. That that they have not, that we haven't really uh uh told about yet, because I don't know the details of how all that's going to work. So I don't really want to get the car yeah, so uh, but we're.
Speaker 2:it's mainly we like to preach. We don't really want to get the car, yeah, so uh, but it's mainly we we like to preach. We like church, we like to have, we like to to see God move in people's lives. And again, we'll do whatever. When we go in July with the kids group. I'm going to a place we've never been but you know what.
Speaker 2:So we're going to take that. We're going to have a big kids crusade. They're going to let us go into schools, I believe. So I just anything. We just want to be servants. We just want to be servants. We'll work wherever, and we don't have to be in the front of anything, we just want to work. We've got a group of people here, a good group, that just wants to work.
Speaker 1:And so we've talked a lot about it, and now it's time for me to just let you run loose with the stories, whatever you, whatever you memories you got that you want to talk about from y'all working with four corners and stuff well, I'll, I'll just my, my, uh, the star stories of my mind are are obviously uh all to do with spiritual things. You, know church. That's what I want to hear.
Speaker 2:So Brother Luis contacted me and there's a place that's very, very poor, right on the outskirts of Progreso, and it was strange because he just gave me kind of directions and we went into that location without really somebody with us and met what would be I think a classification here would be like a mayor. We met the mayor of that location and they were very open to us coming. So we got there. We had a large group, probably about 16 or 17 people, on that trip and it was outside. None of these people were church. They don't even have a church in that location. So I happened to have my children with me. When they go, um, they don't speak spanish but they, they do all their music in spanish. You know, they know a lot of stuff. So they get there and we have a group with us that have a sound system. It begins to rain and and we're all outside and it just turns into a mess. Hey. But, brother, we got to to, we got to singing and these people got to worship and they're standing out there in the poor down rain. They covered the speakers up with plastic and we just continued to go, go on, and so we did that and that altar call, that particular altar call in that place. I think we passed out 300 water filters at that location, but they all came to that service. It was so many people and they're looking from the out Most of the people that get help at those services are right on the outskirts of the light. They're standing in the darkness, you can barely see them, but they'll come to that altar service. They will come, and so those type things all over that, that place there have. Really see, we've never really worked in the city until we started these water filters. We've never been in the city, so it's been an adjustment. It's been an adjustment for us.
Speaker 2:I remember one time uh, not too terribly long ago that we were in a location and again, the weather was bad. It was, it was extremely bad. I mean the winds blowing hard, nothing. So we could, we couldn't even have church because it was going to be in a soccer field. So we're going to go home, we're going to go back to the room. You know that's what we do. We just go back to the room. Well, they come out to the truck, stand in the rain and said no, can you please? Uh, just stand under this shed. We'll get under the shed and those that want to stand in the rain, they can stand in the rain.
Speaker 2:It was the absolute best service of the entire week and all we had was a guitar. We had a pastor, a lady pastor, playing the guitar and we began to sing. I preached and exhorted a little bit. People got help all through that place and you know, out of that particular service, I have a young man here at my church today. That was his mother playing the guitar. Yeah, he's in the States right now and he's a member here at the church and his wife is looking to come over and she's got a degree in teaching, so she's going to work here at the school. So we're excited about that and he's a he's. He's a pastor's son, yeah, so he, he plays a lot of instruments, so so we have him on the platform right now playing the piano. So, yeah, I appreciate the lord and and what he's doing and I'm looking forward to the future yeah, so you say you talk, you, you.
Speaker 1:You mentioned going into the city and stuff. That's something that I've not talked about much I've talked about it back in the day we don't go in the city, we stay in the mountain the. Limpira Mountains. Talk about y'all's experiences in the cities whatever you can say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's been very many times that we do door-to-door ministry right there in those locations, door-to-door ministry right there in those locations and starting out we didn't really know how dangerous it was.
Speaker 2:We didn't really know. We were kind of going in there and doing things and then we began to learn what's going on. But I'll tell you one story in particular. I don't know if you know, we got into a service one time and there was a young man there that was part of a group that was a dangerous group and we didn't have no idea. We didn't have no idea that he was even in the service. And that man came at the end of that service, gave his heart to the Lord and he's living for God right now.
Speaker 2:He left that group, he was with, he left them, and now he's serving God right now, today. I know where he's at right now, and so I'm thankful, I'm thankful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. What is your favorite experience with working with four?
Speaker 2:quarters. Oh, that's a very difficult. That's a very difficult. I'm going to bring that probably back to the US. I'm going to bring that probably back to the US. I'm going to bring that question back to the US. We do peanut butter and Jesus here.
Speaker 2:I think y'all do that, y'all's church. Yeah, so that particular ministry Zach and Christine Zimmerman are over that here and that particular ministry has tremendously. We have an old school bus that we bought from the school system and they was going to let it go, so we bought it for very cheap and so they run that bus on services and through that peanut butter and Jesus we fill that bus up. Man, and I'm seeing now and I'll tell you what I was laying there in the bed the other night I looked at my wife and we were looking at photos of the service. We always do that and we saw about five of those kids. They sit on the front row. I mean, they sit right up on the front row. They're just so comfortable. I love that.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:And I thought to myself, I said, and I told her, I said, one day, one of those kids, they'll be in ministry and it may be 20 years from now, lord cares. They'll be in ministry and they're going to tell a story. An old, raggedy school bus would pick me up every service. That's why I'm here where I'm at today. I want to be a part of that. They don't have to mention a church, they don't have to mention a name. I just want to see people helped and that's, I think, being part of Four Corners. That's the most impactful thing. I love the Mississippi, I love travel, I love going, I love seeing, I like being in different cultures. You know, I love all those things, but we still have home here and we work here. We work here. So we take what we do all over the place everywhere we go. Yes, sir.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something we didn't talk about was uh, where have you been anywhere besides Honduras?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've done some work in Guatemala. Uh, not a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We went down there. There was a hospital. We went down and worked in. There's, uh, some nurses here.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:We went down. Actually we took a group of men. I think we went there several times. We took a group of men and did a lot of work there in the hospital. It was run down completely. They could hardly use the rooms and we put new ceilings in and stuff like that and just worked through. A doctor there is what we did so it was a very I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, but we didn't stay there long.
Speaker 1:Yeah, main focus is home missions and in Honduras, Right right.
Speaker 2:That's what we're focusing on.
Speaker 1:So what has been your favorite part of doing missions?
Speaker 2:My favorite part. It's probably I like to meet people. We meet different people everywhere we go and, again, I have relationships all over the country over there. I like that, I like to be able to. Those relationships are very, very important to me and so through all of this, outside of learning everything that I've learned through missions, I guess it would be that relationships, yeah.
Speaker 1:You got any more testimonies or stories you can tell from your stuff with Four Corners oh?
Speaker 2:well, there's a lot, I mean there's a lot, I mean there's a lot. I don't really have one in particular that I could go into. One reason is I know this will be aired, so I'll say this A lot of those stories I can't really convey because it's dangerous.
Speaker 1:It's stuff that could hurt somebody. Yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Not just us but these people that are getting help there. If other people find out they'll retaliate against that. So we have to kind of keep that stuff. We don't post a lot of pictures because you can't do that. You can't do that in the city and I learned that the hard way't do that in the city yeah. And I learned that the hard way.
Speaker 1:I remember I learned the hard way. Y'all was up there and we was up in Honduras. When y'all was up there, Brother Luis was.
Speaker 2:I think he called y'all and told y'all that he did he told y'all y'all didn't.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, I don't know if he knew them, but he knew the area I was in and what they say is it's a hot area. That's how they define dangerous it's hot, it's hot. But most of those places down there they got souls, man, and we see God work in such tremendous ways down there in the hot areas we have. And just I'll say this these are the type things I'm talking about. We'll go in and do water filters, we'll turn off the main road, go into these villages, in these neighborhoods. Somebody will follow us all the way to our location and then they'll watch us get out, they'll watch everything we're doing and then they'll leave. And they explained to me what that was. I mean, he's doing his job, you know. He's watching to see what the Americans are doing there and to find out. You know, are we legit? And they listen to the gospel too. They're standing outside the church. I mean, we preach to everybody. You know so. But anyway, that's one thing I really love, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so we're getting ready. We ain't got too much to tell here or to say here, unless you think Is there anything that I've missed that you want to bring?
Speaker 2:up? I don't think so. I think everything kind of covered everything.
Speaker 1:So how important do you believe short-term missions trips are for long-time missions?
Speaker 2:You're talking about uh compared one another how important is it for the missions?
Speaker 2:well, I honestly think it's very important for for people there and people here yeah you know, we have people here that are capable and able the lord has called them to do long-term missions. And then you have other people that, honestly, they go and they'll do a short-term mission trip Now, short-term when you're talking medical or something like that. I think that long-term is obviously the better way, because you can't really go in and change people's health in five days, so you need long-term missions to do that. But but also you go in there, blow through there in five days and take a group of evangelists and and just preach the gospel and watch the place erupt. Yeah, that's I like that, you know, I think I so. So they're both good, right, you know, and there are a few variables obviously between the two, but but they're both outstanding.
Speaker 1:How do you think it helps the long term? Like adds to it, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, well, long term, you're talking about a completely different. I've never lived in another country, so that would be something that would definitely it takes a calling.
Speaker 2:It takes a calling because you're going to. You know, I'll tell you this. I told my wife one time we were there and we had left the Glow Center because we had no phone service. We would drive down towards La Campa so we could call back home and we stopped. There's a certain place you'll probably know where it's at, on the mountain, where you can look out across, and it's so beautiful between La Campa and the Glow Center. We stopped right there had great phone service.
Speaker 2:I said wouldn't you just love to live here? And she's just sitting there, you know, looking at her phone, waiting to get some service to call. And I said you ain't got no worries. No, you know, I started naming all these things and she said and no life. So you know, it's not for everybody Long term, it's not for you. It's definitely a call and you've got to put those people's sacrifice a lot. But they stay there. They're the footmen in that country. Americans go there, they're a footman for us and work and prepare and they do a lot of stuff that nobody sees. So it's very, very important.
Speaker 1:It's very, very important and it wouldn't be possible without somebody there. We've got Brother Luis there and we wouldn't be where we're at without him, because he gets everything ready before we're there.
Speaker 2:That's exactly right. He's talking to the pastors. Brother Luis Vargas is a busy man. He is a busy man.
Speaker 1:For those who don't know, he is from Honduras. That's where he lives. He is a Honduran and he is basically like our in-country in Honduras, missions representative or director whatever you want to call him I have a term, but we'll just say that and he does so much, It'd be so hard without him. So I'm going to probably just say like one more question and give you time to say some closing remarks. What would you like to see in the future?
Speaker 2:well, uh, I can tell you, when I get something in my heart and on my mind, I focus on that, and right now it's that school right right now I'm I'm pretty consumed with getting those things up and running.
Speaker 2:So, so, utilizing those kids, seeing those kids grow, that that's my burning desire right now. So the future, my, obviously everything. I don't know what the future holds. It's a lot of things going on there right now, so, but but inside of me, burning on the inside of me, is those young people but being used, both locally in the Limpia Mountains and globally. I mean, they can. They'll be bilingual by the time they graduate. They can do what they want to do, you know. So that's probably for the future. That's. That's. That's a great goal that I want to see accomplished and I'm bound to set out to do that. You know, I'll do whatever I have to do to see accomplished and I'm bound to set out to do that. I'll do whatever I have to do to see that happen.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, and now we're going to go ahead and get ready to close this podcast. Like we did last time, I'm going to give you time to give some closing remarks, or if there's a question that I ain't asked you, or something like a story or something you want to tell, or just whatever you want to say, you got plenty of time.
Speaker 2:Go ahead and say whatever you need to say Well again, I want to say to you I appreciate you doing this. I think it's helpful. People can hear from different views of the mission field. They can hear what's happening. They know what's going on. I think it's important, so I want to thank you for doing that.
Speaker 1:First of all, Thank you for being here, yes, sir.
Speaker 2:Secondly, I want to encourage somebody again, somebody that may be listening to this podcast. You've been back and forth, you've been on the fence. You don't really know what to do, but when you hear me say these words, I believe it's a confirmation to you go, just go, just go and watch what it does to you, watch what it does to your family. You'll come back home and when you come back home, you may be gone five days and you'll come back home and everything inside of you has changed. I've got a young man here that's leaving here with us. He's trying to go on this next trip with us in July and he's never been. But I told him that and I told him the same story I told a moment ago about the men crawling to the altar and tears welled up in his eyes. You know, and he's never even seen that, he's never been a part of that. But I could tell that burn in there those type people. When you take those type people, hey, they get help. You know what I'm saying. They get changed. And they not only get changed, they come back to the States and they're just a walking sign of Jesus here and so but yeah, I would just tell somebody you know, pray about it.
Speaker 2:Just ask the Lord if you are on the fence and see what he says. You know, don't just. You know. The Lord told me last night I was up some praying last night through the night and you know there's a difference in hearing the Lord and listening to the Lord. Now you may be in the last year of your life hearing the Lord say go, but you need to stop and listen to what he's saying. One of them is just vibration and sound. The other one is stopping and taking hold of the actual words that he's saying. One of them is just vibration and sound. The other one is stopping and taking hold of the actual words that he's saying. Listen to him. Listen to him, just do what he says. Amen. I appreciate you, brother Kent.
Speaker 1:Yes, sir, this has been. I've enjoyed getting to hear about stuff that I don't you know. I talk to people about God's little one and stuff and I know what we do and stuff, but this has been a way for me to be able to get to know what y'all do and get to share that with other people. So it gets to that side of it and it has been good getting to hear about it. Thank you for allowing me to come. I'm actually not in our podcasting studio, well closet right now. I'm actually in Jonesboro at y'all school getting to do this with you and I have I've enjoyed getting to do this with you. Thank you for giving me your time today. God bless you. Thank you everybody for listening to this episode of the God's little one podcast. Thank you for being here, brother Amen.
Speaker 1:Brother Joel talked about going to a certain village and how it was pouring down rain and stuff to where they was just going to go back to their room. But they ended up staying and just preaching under a pavilion or like a metal building or shed or something and the people that wanted to be there just stayed out in the rain and he said that it was the best service of that trip and you know it wasn't comfortable. It was not a comfortable experience. It was pouring down rain, it was rough, but they did it anyway and it was the best service they had all week. And you know, I've said in this podcast I've talked on this thing about how it's not always going to be convenient, and that's true. I want to say something else about that. It's not always going to be convenient. We're going to have to go out of the way, but it's also not always going to be comfortable. You're not always going to be able to go to a big church where there's cushioned seats and air conditioning. That's not reality. The reality is missions work is not always comfortable. It's not always easy. You're often going to have to go into an uncomfortable situation, whether that's overseas, having to go preach in houses with no air conditioning, having to preach outside, whatever it is. But those are powerful moments. Some of the best moments that I've heard in missions is not going to big churches and seeing powerful things. It's being just outside. It's just being in an uncomfortable situation, in a difficult situation. But having a powerful moment, having a powerful time with God, it doesn't matter the location, it doesn't matter what we're dealing with at the time. What matters is that God is in it. It can be uncomfortable, it can be difficult at times. We can often not want to. I know we get used to here in the States having comfort, having air conditioning, having cars that we can go drive to, but that's not what makes it work. What makes missions work, what makes ministry work, what makes working for God work, is to be willing to go do what he tells us to do, what he calls us to do, whether it's comfortable or not. So I encourage you, whatever God's calling you to do, whatever he's told you to do, whether it's to go on a mission trip, whether it's just to go witness to somebody you know. Whether it's uncomfortable or not, whether you want to or not, I encourage you to do it anyway. Step out, do it, no matter how comfortable it is, no matter how difficult it could be. Go out, witness and see how God uses you Well.
Speaker 1:Thank you for listening to this episode of the God's Little One podcast. We hope you enjoyed this episode. This was a blast to do so. Like you heard how I said, I ended up going to Jonesboro to record this in their school and I'm going to let y'all know the audio. I know the audio is not the best on this one and that's why the building we was in. I might've said that on the last one. If I did, I apologize for saying it again, but uh, yeah, that's why the audio is so bad. But yeah, it was still a blast to do. I enjoyed getting to do this podcast. I hope y'all enjoyed getting to listen to it. It was awesome and, uh, yeah, we enjoyed getting to do it.
Speaker 1:But anyway, in our next podcast we're actually going to be doing some, uh, recent stuff. So, if you remember, we've had Dre Hobson on this podcast and we've also had Brother Joey Sweeney on this podcast on two different podcasts. They weren't together but we had them both on the podcast. Well, they had a trip, very last minute trip come up once not that long ago, and we're actually going to be talking about that trip and what God did, the experiences they had. And I will tell you it is a powerful, powerful podcast, powerful trip.
Speaker 1:I enjoyed getting to do this one. It was so good and I'm not joking. I challenge you if you don't believe me, we'll wait for it to come out and listen to it. I dare you. It is a phenomenal podcast. But yeah, something cool about this podcast that I thought was or something that I liked that I thought was cool.
Speaker 1:I have three mics in this studio and this is actually the first time I've had two guests in the same room. I've had two guests on before, but they've been on phone calls and stuff. One person be here, one person on a phone call or two people on a phone call. This is our first time having two people in studio with me, so that's first time using three mics. It's a blast. I hope y'all enjoy the episode. I definitely definitely enjoy doing it and I I 100% encourage you to go listen to it. We talk about some powerful, powerful things that happened on this trip and yeah.
Speaker 1:But anyway, thank you for listening to this episode of the God's little in contact. If you would like to contact us or call us or text us and give us a question, we would love. We want to answer y'all's questions. I've been trying to get questions out, so I encourage you to ask your questions. If you'd like to ask us your questions or just tell us how we're doing and stuff, you can contact us at 318-491-1772. And if you'd like to send us a donation or anything like that. Our PO Box is PO Box 904, oakdale, louisiana, 71463. Any kind of donation is greatly appreciated. We thank y'all for everything y'all do. God bless y'all. Thank you for listening to this episode and I'll see you on the next podcast.