Skip to main content

Heroes

Missionaries are my heroes.

This weekend, we hosted a guest missionary at our church. Nathan Alfaro has been a missionary to Nicaragua for about 12 years now, and is doing a phenomenal work in his present ministry. I had the opportunity to visit with him at length over coffee, and got really excited about what God is doing in Nicaragua, and about what God can do at Solid Rock Church. Nathan is such a passionate individual that I can't help but get excited about ministry.

There is no doubt that Nathan would make an excellent pastor here in the states but he is so totally committed to his call to Nicaragua that he doesn't consider staying home, though he's had invitations and opportunities to do so. That's one of the many things I admire about missionaries. They can teach all of us a lot about total surrender, commitment, hard work, and perseverance. It has not been an easy journey for Nathan and his wife, Christine, but they continue to be faithful to their call. And because of their faithfulness, lives are being changed in Nicaragua.

Nathan Alfaro is one of my heroes.
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Day Our World Changed

November 13, 1989. 11:30 AM I had just finished my lunch in the teacher's workroom and was walking back to my classroom. I was teaching at San Jacinto Elementary in San Angelo, Texas at the time. Up until then, it had been a typical November day. As I walked past the school office, the door swung open, and a fellow teacher stepped out with a look of concern on her face. She spoke directly to me and said, “Your wife’s on the phone, and it sounds serious.” I ran into the office, took the phone, and heard my wife say, “I don’t know what happened, but your brother is on life support in a hospital in Austin.”  Twelve hours later, my father and I were sharing a room in a hotel on I-35 in Austin. My sister-in-law, Sandy, and her six-year-old daughter, Araceli, were in a room across the hall. I hardly slept that night. I would doze off and suddenly wake up to my father crying and calling out my brother’s name.  My brother was dead. Osiel had collapsed that morning while his h...
Post a Comment
Read more

Try not to laugh too hard

So we finally gave in and bought a Wii. It turns out that it's a lot of fun. Unfortunately, my kids were having fun at my expense. I was trying out the boxing and had no idea Bethany was video taping me. The jerky movement at the end of the clip is Bethany shaking because she was laughing so hard.
6 comments
Read more

Happy Anniversary!

Today is the one-year anniversary of the beginning of this blog. I started blogging on June 9, 2007 with this post . One year later, I'm still enjoying blogging about what's going on at Solid Rock Church, and linking to other interesting blogs and articles, as well as blogging about some of my thoughts and reflections related to Solid Rock and the church world in general. I know I have a few readers out there, so as long as there are three of you reading this blog, I guess I'll keep it going. And remember, comments are always welcomed!
5 comments
Read more