May 2012

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends,

This past month has been exciting! It is hard to know where to start. First, our family has been blessed with a new addition, Raquel Hope Jacobo. She was born on March 30, 2012, weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz., and measured at 18.8 inches long. It was an extremely long labor. We praise the Lord that Abigail’s mom was able to come and help take care of our other two children. We have been trying to get adjusted to our “new” routine. Children are truly a blessing from the Lord.

Please pray Luis. This young man has a big heart for the Lord. He has been saved, baptized and is attending church. He has also been tithing. I presented a Bible to him and he told me that he couldn’t read. We found him a tutor to teach him how to read. His tutor has said the he is doing extremely well. Luis is 30 years old and it can be a little difficult to teach people when they are older, but Luis is proving to be truly exceptional. He is already trying to read the Bible, but only recognizes certain words. He cannot wait for the day when he will be able to read God’s word on his own. If anyone has the Bible on tape or CD in Spanish Reina Valera 1960, Luis is a young man who would be worthy of this investment. This has also given me an idea for the ones that cannot read. The Bible says that we are still blessed if we can listen to God’s word also.

Please pray for our residency situation. The government has become more difficult regarding missionary residencies. We’ve had to start the entire process all over again. This time we are putting our residencies under the name of our daughter since she was born in Honduras and will have dual citizenship. Please pray for the costs involved in re-doing our residencies. We will be able to leave the country, but it is coming back that we are worried about. A church has been planted and the work is growing. Please that God would touch the hearts of the leaders here and He would supply according to our needs concerning the residency process. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Your missionary in Honduras,
Daniel Jacobo Read More

March 2012

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends,

February has been an exciting month! We had our second annual Friend Day on February 12, 2012. The church had been working hard inviting people for this special day. We were really excited to see what God was going to do. We had 104 people! The church was very encouraged because there had been people that have left, but they realized that it is the Lord that will grow His church. God will bless our faithfulness to Him. We have been seeing more visitors come since Friend Day. But I have to remind the people that we are a young church and that what they are seeing is only the beginning. A lot of times we can be so focused on those that leave that we forget that the church is not built by men, but by God. The people are learning the importance of soul-winning and visitation.

Please pray for our airline tickets to return to the States for furlough. I am so thankful for those have been able to help with this tremendous need. Our airline tickets will cost around $2,000. I am asking if each church would be able to give at least $100 for this need. The work is exciting and growing and we cannot wait to share these blessings with you when we return.

Your missionary in Honduras,
Daniel Jacobo Read More

February 2012

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends,

Please pray for a 21 year old woman named Yurisa. She has been coming faithfully since October and really wants to serve the Lord. She told me that since she was a little girl her mom has been praying that she would be saved and God answered that prayer at the age of 21. She now has 3 kids. She was baptized last month in one of our river baptism services. We are praying for her boyfriend, Johnny who is 23. She is trying to encourage him to get to church. I led Johnny to the Lord shortly after Yurisa. She also wants to go soul-winning. Please pray for this young family that they would make things right in their home and get on fire for the Lord.

Please pray for the people. For some of the people, the Christian life was exciting in the beginning. They got saved, baptized, and discipled. But now they are finding it hard to make the next step which is service. In order for them to do this there is a lot that they must change. Some are just content to warm a seat in church. We do have workers, but like the Bible says, "…but the labourers are few." Please pray for more laborers.

I am excited about the future of the work here. One of our members is one of the plumbers for the city. He is telling me that they are fixing the water system so the town will grow. The mayor is starting to do some things to attract more people. I am excited about this because that would mean the potential to reach more people. We also heard of some property that just came up for sale. It is perfect for what we want to do. We are very thankful that a small group of the people is now catching the vision for the church. We also have a couple from the States will be joining us here in Campamento. Doors are starting to open up for us to preach in the surrounding villages. Please pray for the future of the work. We see a great potential for future of Iglesia Bautista Manahaim. I want to thank each and every one of you that have personally sacrificed for missions and that has prayed for us. Thank you for your prayers and support.

Your missionary in Honduras,
Daniel Jacobo Read More

December 2011

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends, Merry Christmas!  As we are entering December, I am reminding the people why we celebrate Christmas.  The center is of everything is Jesus.  The people celebrate Christmas on the 24^th in Honduras.  During this time we see a higher rate of drunks walking the streets.  Praise the Lord for Iglesia Bautista Mahanaim, a lighthouse to this dark city.  It is amazing to see how much progress the people have made in their spiritual lives. I am very excited for a young 18 year -old boy named Mario.  He was saved in September and last month was baptized.  He is currently being discipled and is making great decisions for the Lord.  He loves going soul-winning with me every Saturday.  He expressed an interest to serve in the church.  Mario only has a fourth grade education so studying the Bible is proving to be a little difficult for him, but with the Lord’s help, he can be used greatly.  I started discipleship with him on Tuesdays.  As I arrived, his whole family was there and we did discipleship in front of the family.  Throughout the lesson the family was gathered around us as we studied the Bible.  Please pray that we would be able to reach Mario’s family as well. There is an older lady named Lidia that visited as a result of our soul-winning program.  She came up to me at the end of the service and asked me about a Bible.  I told her that I would love to talk to her about receiving a Bible.  When I visited her, I talked to her about the Lord.  At the end of our conversation, she got saved.  She wants to bring her adult daughters and their kids to church. We are praising the Lord for these blessings as well as your part in them.  We are averaging around 70 people in our house and still growing.  Please pray that the Lord would provide for land and a building.  Also pray for a new car as well as buses to pick people up. We would also like to announce that we will be adding to the Jacobo Family. Our third child is due in April.  Please pray for my wife and the health of the baby she is carrying. Your missionary in Honduras, Daniel Jacobo Read More

November 2011

Dear Pastor and Praying Friends, The work keeps getting stronger and stronger!  This past month has been a month of spiritual growth for the people.  I announced to the church that we will have 3 consecutive soul-winning classes.  Each one was on a Saturday.  We have been averaging 8 people in attendance.  This is a wonderful start.  I have given them all the tools that they need to win souls, but there is just one thing impeding them from actually talking to people: fear.  They are very embarrassed to talk to the people, but I know that they will overcome this.  Though they have fear, they are very eager to work more for the Lord.  We have knocked every door in Campamento, but there is still one town close to that we still need to knock.  They are not used to being part of a church that actually evangelizes the people.  Thank God, He has laid out His plan in the Bible for how to grow His church. There is one area that the church is still lacking and that is tithing.  I want to eventually start a Missions Conference and be able to support missionaries, but first the people need to learn how to tithe.  We invited Bro. Johnny Castro, an evangelist from La Espada, to preach one Sunday about finances.  The people became very encouraged.  I have been preaching on tithing and the people got a stronger burden for it.  Praise the Lord that one person has tithed and I am praying that many more will follow. Please pray for our property situation.  We are averaging between 60-70 people on a Sunday morning.  We have made a commitment that we will not stop reaching people even if we have no more room.  Our children's ministry is averaging between 30 and 40 kids on a Sunday morning.  All these services are being done in our house.  Our car has also been breaking down frequently and we are praying for a new car.  We are also praying for mini buses to pick people up.  If your church is looking for a missionary project please prayerfully consider the ministry in Campamento, Honduras.  Thank you for your prayers and support. Your missionary in Honduras, Daniel Jacobo Read More

September 2011

What a month August was! A mother, by the name of Kenya, started coming to church towards the end of her pregnancy, which was 2 months ago.  She had to have a c-section.  She brought a visitor, her name is Yosimar.  Yosimar then brought her 4 kids.  When Kenya delivered her baby, the doctor put her on bed rest.  Yosimar had to take care of Kenya during that time.  They both stopped coming to church until Kenya was strong enough to walk and come to church.  During her absence from church, we kept visiting her.  At times, we brought her clothes for the baby, bought a Bible and in the month of August, I was able to lead 2 of them to the Lord.  I lead to the Lord  Kenya in July,  and then Yosimar, and Yosimar’s boyfriend, Armando in August. When we first came to Campamento, a lady by the name of Erica did not like us.  I can remember many times she would get mad at us.  She eventually came to church, got saved and then in the month of August got baptized.  What a God we serve! Also in the month of August we celebrated our first year anniversary.  On August 27, we had an anniversary dinner with 50 people in attendance.  There were many testimonies that were given of what the church meant to them.  It was sweet time.  The following day was the actual anniversary.  We had 93 in attendance for our first year anniversary in the morning.  In the evening service, we organized the church with 9 members signing the charter.  We have many more that are being lined up to become members also. We would like to announce also that Christopher and Lydia Fittro will be joining our work here in Honduras.  Chris will be the principal of the Christian bilingual school that we will be starting in Campamento.  Seeing the work here in Honduras, I am truly amazed at seeing God work in the lives of the Honduran people.  Thank you for your prayers and support. Your missionary to Honduras, Daniel Jacobo

July 2011

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, June was certainly an exciting month in Campamento.  We are now starting to average close to 60 on our Sunday morning services.  We have seen more new people come to church because of our soul-winning program.  The people are really excited to see more new people in the church.  We also have our regulars that are really starting to grow.  More people are starting to bring their Bibles to church.  Some parents tell me that their kids think that they are weird because they sing church songs at home.  As we get closer to our first anniversary, it is amazing to see the growth in the people here.  I wondered what would have happened if no missionary had followed the leading the Lord and planted a church here. On the last Sunday of June we had a special Baptism Sunday.  Because of the culture here, people do not usually get baptized right away.  It is a much slower culture.  We try to have a good number of saved people that need to be baptized and then we will have one Sunday where we all go to a river and baptize.  After the service, we will do what Baptists do best, eat.  We tell our church families to bring food and after the service we will eat lunch.  Everyone sits down on the beach of the river while I preach standing in the water.  After the preaching, we had 6 baptisms with 55 people in attendance.  Since the baptisms, we have seen real growth in the people.  Baptism is a very confusing doctrine here because of the many different churches.  Praise the Lord these people trusted what the Bible says and were baptized. Please be in prayer for August 28.  This is our first year anniversary.  In the morning we will celebrate our first year anniversary.  This is the time we are praying for 100 people in attendance.  In the evening we will organize ourselves as a church.  This is will be a very important day in our young church.  I also want to remind everyone that I will be making calls for furlough in August 2012.  If any supporting church would like to have us in, please contact us.  Because of the growth of the church, we have to raise more money.  Thank you for your prayers and support. Your missionary to Honduras, Daniel Jacobo

June 2011

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, The Lord has been adding more wonderful people to our church. In May we celebrated Mother’s Day. I had been working on a family to come and Mother’s day was the thing that encouraged them to start coming to church. The mother can’t read and they don’t have any electricity in their home, but they are some of the happiest and most faithful people that we have. That family invited another family also. It is exciting to see the people who don’t have much, but are encouraged in the Lord. The mother’s name is Cristina. There is no father in the house and she is raising six kids by herself. She hasn't been able to find any work right now. They are still new, but they have a big heart for the Lord. Every time they come I am reminded how we don’t need things to be happy. Please pray for our finances, we are trying to raise money for property and a building. We are running out of space fast. This would be an excellent missionary project to be involved in. Our first year anniversary is fast approaching and we are praying for 100 people in attendance. We are now averaging 50 people in attendance each Sunday. More people are starting to hear about us and how different we are from the other churches. If anyone would be interested in sending a team to help build the building that would be good also. We have a constructor in the church already that will head up the project. Before we can build, we need the property. Another need has also come up. We are still new in the country and we are learning some of the culture here. We ended our relationship with our previous lawyer and hired a more honest one. Our current lawyer is a saved and baptized man. He feels that part of his calling is to help missionaries. We are in the process of renewing our residency. Our previous lawyer told us that the government wants $500 to renew our residency, but she did not give us enough time to raise that money. It was obvious that our previous lawyer was trying to get as much money out of us as possible. The government is still requiring the $500 for our residency. Please pray the Lord would supply this need very soon. Your missionary in Honduras, Daniel Jacobo

May 2011

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, Blessings come in many different ways.  I am so thankful that the Lord keeps adding wonderful people to our great church.  A girl by the name of Doris had been coming to our church for a few Sundays, but would never raise her hand at invitation time for salvation.  We decided to make a visit.  I showed Doris how she could be saved from the Bible.  She had never been to any another church so she didn’t have other doctrines in her heart.  She accepted Christ as her Savior.  She comes from a very poor family.  Even though she is poor, she comes faithfully to church with a big smile on her face.  She has one more year of high school left.  Please pray that God would work on her heart. We are going to be starting a new ministry that I have been thinking about.  I will be starting an English class in September. There will be a meeting on May 13, 2011 in which I will give out all the details about this class.  There are no other Americans in our town or in our area that are offering English classes.  The owner of the local radio said that he would announce my English class for free.  I asked him, "How many people would listen to this announcement?"  He replied, "Twelve thousand homes."  We want to use this English class as a tool to reach the people.  Please be in much prayer as we are thinking this may attract many people and that many souls will be saved as a result of this ministry. I would like to announce that we will return to the States for furlough September 2012 until April 2013.  Our work is growing and we have limited resources.  We need to be in as many new churches as possible.  If you support us and would like for us to stop by your church please let us know before August 2011.  You can contact us by Facebook, email, or my cell phone number.  Our e-mail is jacobo2005@gmail.com.  My cell phone number is 011-504-8806-0020.  Our Facebook name is Daniel n Abigail Jacobo.  I am thankful that God is not dead, He is alive, and He is working in Campamento, Honduras.  Thank you for your faithful prayers and support. Your missionary to Honduras, Daniel Jacobo

March 2011

Dear Pastors and Praying Friends, The month of February has been an extremely busy month.  On February 13, 2011, we had our first Friend Day.  We had 76 in attendance.  The entire church worked so hard for this day.  We even had a special guest, the mayor of Campamento.  The majority of the work came after Friend Day.  The week after Friend Day we saw 2 saved.  I am emphasizing with the people how important follow up is.  They have been doing an extraordinary job.  We are trying to have 100 people in attendance by our first year anniversary, which is August 28, 2011. The following Sunday, we had a graduation service for those who completed their discipleship course.  We had 5 graduates in total.  At the end of the course, they have to recite all sixty-six books of the Bible in order to graduate and receive their certificate.  Please pray for these special people as now they will begin the next step in their Christian life.  Their names are: Cesar, Betty, David, Nicole, and Nena. At the end of February, there was an unexpected death.  Betty’s sister-in-law died from stomach cancer.  The sister-in-law was named Carmen.  Many of Carmen’s family members go to our church.  The funeral was held on Sunday.  Instead of just a normal Sunday morning service, we combined the Sunday morning service and the funeral.  The service was held in Carmen’s house.  The entire house was filled.  There were no more seats left and people were standing in the doorway.  Praise the Lord, there was a testimony of salvation and I preached about Heaven from Revelation chapter 21 and John 14.  Please pray for Carmen´s family as we continue to minister to them. Next month we are going to have another river baptism.  This time I will not be able to take everyone in my truck because the church is too big now.  We have to rent a bus.  Not only pray for property, but pray for a bus also.  These are certainly exciting times we are living in.  Thank you for your prayers and support. Your missionary in Honduras, Daniel Jacobo