The Point of Impact: New Church in Le Ceiba

Welcome to The Point of Impact

We are Paul and Kim Dyar and we are called to Missions in Honduras. Our mission is to connect ministry passion with real ministry need. The need is never ending, however laborers are few. We are working as the assistant to the national overseer of the Church of God, which embodies 1130 churches, 10 clinics, 1 orphanage, numerous feeding programs and has the largest social ministry of any denomination in Honduras. The social ministry includes the Deaf Comunity Center and caring for pastors and their children.

Kim and I have dedicated our time to making sure that ministry is accountable and connected. As the Projects Coordinator for Honduras, churches can know when they send funds through the World Missions and National office of Honduras that it makes the full impact and progress that is anticipated.

We are also engaged in consistent dialogue with the national overseer for better ways of leadership training and connectivity with local missionaries for greater effectiveness.

We have been in ministry, as a team, for 13 years and the last 5 years we have been pastoring The Haven in Maryville, Tennessee, which has been a tremendous joy. The Lord has given us 4 beautiful children who are becoming our ministry team. They are very eager to learn and they love to help others.

Our goal is to bring others to the point of impact. The Point of Impact is where Christ enters the heart of mankind and Jesus becomes the difference maker. We are only branches connected to the True Vine, Jesus. As we advance the Kingdom, we expect God to move in miraculous ways.

Friday, November 28, 2008

New Church in Le Ceiba

I would like to share November 21st – 23rd with everyone. My uncle, Jim Hutchins, and I had the pleasure of sharing those days with fellow servants of God who came here to Honduras to plant a new church. Russell Brinson, Terrell Brinson, and Mark Gidley came in from the US to speak with the pastor and the leadership of the church that was to be established. They had already purchased the land in the Bufalo area of La Cieba, Honduras. This is a photo of the land and an example of some of the structures that people are living in within the area. It is estimated that there are over 6,000 families with single parents, no jobs, etc. living within a mile of this new church site. The Christian brothers came with the necessary seed money to start the church and through their friends and churches are hoping to have a church capable of seating 250 people established and ready for dedication in August 2009.
While visiting with the church in La Cieba we were hosted to a wonderful breakfast by the pastor and his family and a delicious dinner by the youth minister and his family. We stayed at a La Quinta Inn where we met one of the security guards that had shot a thief in the leg the first night we were there. We invited him to church service with us on Saturday night and he and others gave their hearts to Jesus. We had service on Friday evening with Russell Brinson as the guest speaker and Sherman Collins translating. On Saturday evening Mark Gidley spoke. There is only one way to describe the services we had. “God was in the house.” We had awesome worship services.
We reviewed the church blue prints and suggested they establish a building time line, and I was appointed as the coordinator between the church and Doctor Collins, the National Overseer for Honduras. With God’s divine hand guiding this church will be planted in a fertile area where there’s many to be harvested.