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		<name>Mike Pettengill</name>
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			<id>pettengill:656</id>
			<published>2010-03-10 08:55:06</published>
			<title type="text">Mike Working In Georgia – Day 5</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[On Tuesday Mike twice addressed the participants of MTW's Interview and Orientation.  There are nearly 35 future missionaries attending this event.  In the morning Mike provided a 40-minute devotional for the group.  In the afternoon he gave the group a 50-minute presentation on the techniques and importance of missionaries communicating with supporters back in the U.S.  He challenged these outgoing missionaries to view their communication as a way to expand God's glory.Wednesday Mike attended several meetings and completed paperwork in the MTW office.  He finalized our application to return to Honduras for an additional four years.  In the afternoon he met with a leader from East Lanier Community Church and discussed the work we are doing in Honduras, and how they can be part of it.  We look forward to their future involvement in our work in Honduras.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:655</id>
			<published>2010-03-08 09:01:36</published>
			<title type="text">Mike Working In Georgia – Day 3</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[On Sunday Mike spoke at MTW's Vision Conference.  This is an event where people come to determine if they are called to be missionaries.  Mike is helping at this event to recruit for our mission team and to help other discern their call.  Mike addressed the group for an hour.  He shared with them our ministry in Honduras and what is going on there.On Monday Mike addressed the same group as a member of a panel of missionaries.  The group fielded questions from the participants about living in another country.  In the afternoon the group broke up smaller sections.  Mike directed the group through a time of discussion and prayer.This recruiting is beneficial for our ministry.  Mike is also able to help others discern their direction in serving the Lord. ]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:654</id>
			<published>2010-03-06 05:18:09</published>
			<title type="text">Mission Team Leaves And Mike Goes To Georgia</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[On Saturday we said goodbye and thank you to the visiting missionaries. The missionaries were from RUF at Johnson and Wales University in Charlotte, North Carolina.  They did a wonderful job serving the people of Honduras.They started construction on a house for a single mom.  They taught English class, worked with kids, put on a medical clinic, organized a special day for girls and did so much more.  We are so thankful for their service to us, God and the people of Honduras.Also on Saturday Mike boarded a flight to Georgia.  He will be in Georgia for nine days.  The focus of his trip is recruiting new missionaries, raising financial support for the construction of our ministry center on our property in Armenia Bonito and teaching future missionaries.Please be in prayer for the short-term team and Mike as they travel to the U.S.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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			<id>pettengill:653</id>
			<published>2010-03-04 08:46:18</published>
			<title type="text">Rain, Robitussin And River</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[We are coming to an end of the week for the short-term mission on team from the Reformed University Fellowship at Johnson &amp; Wales University of North Carolina.On Wednesday we battled a heavy rain.  It altered our plans quite substantially, but didn't eliminate the work.  The team continued construction on a two-bedroom house for a single lady with three kids.  We all worked through the rain and got soaked.After construction on Thursday we hosted a free medical clinic in Armenia Bonito.  The team was very helpful.  We were able to treat 45 patients and provide them with prayer, professional consultation and free medicine.In the afternoon some of the team took kids from the community to the river for a swim.  Because of the recent rains the river was full and flowing quickly.  The kids and the team loved the river and spent time jumping off of the rocks and hunting for river shrimp.  In the picture above are three of our scholarship kids - Walter, Alicia and Jorge.The mission team leaves on Saturday.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:652</id>
			<published>2010-03-02 08:31:23</published>
			<title type="text">Short-Term Mission Team Leads English And Kids Club</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[The short-term mission team that has been here since Saturday is doing great.  The team is from the Reformed University Fellowship at Johnson &amp; Wales University of North Carolina.On Monday and Tuesday morning the team worked on building a new house for a single mother and her three children.  The family currently lives in a house made of sticks with a wooden floor.  The team has been doing lots of digging and laying cinder blocks to form the foundation for the two-bedroom house.On Monday afternoon the team helped Mike teach an English class in Armenia Bonito.  Mike taught the first part of the class on body parts and animals.  During the second half of the class the mission team broke into small groups with the Hondurans.  They worked with them on reading and pronunciation.In the afternoon on Tuesday the rain came down hard, but it did not dampen our spirits or wash out our plans.  The team helped us with Kids Club.  Over 25 kids showed for the event.  The team played three indoor games with the kids.  We all sang to Bible songs.  They then did a skit about Jesus taking away sin.  They concluded with providing the kids blank t-shirts and allowing them to draw on them and take them home.The team from NC is scheduled to leave Saturday.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:651</id>
			<published>2010-02-28 10:16:12</published>
			<title type="text">Short-Term Mission Team Here From NC</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[On Saturday a short-term mission team arrived from Reformed University Fellowship from Johnson &amp; Wales University of North Carolina.  The team consists of seven college students and a family of four.  They will be here for a week.On Sunday we took the team on a tour of La Ceiba and got the oriented to their life for the next seven days.Sunday evening we took the team to church in Armenia Bonito.  The team, who knows no Spanish, learned a Spanish worship song and sang it a church.  Tyler, the Team Leader, preached with the help of an interpreter.Monday the team will begin construction and ministry work.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:650</id>
			<published>2010-02-25 09:22:46</published>
			<title type="text">Medical Clinic And Working On The Property</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[The last two days it has been pouring down rain.  Subsequently the temperatures have dropped.  The men are happy to be free from the oppressive heat and are eager to get out and work in the sloppy mud.  The kids, on the other hand, get sicker with mosquito born illnesses, colds and allergies.The men have continued work on our two-acre parcel.  They continue to remove fence posts and have started removing large stones.  Today one of the men was happy to report to Mike that they have killed five snakes so far.  Our job foreman, in an unrelated accident, was hit by a car on Wednesday.  For those of you who know Santos, he did not stay in the hospital, has no broken bones and will recover fully.On Thursday we hosted our first full medical clinic in almost a month.  With Erin being gone in Haiti we held no medical clinics.  Erin was happy to get back to what she loves.  She even implemented some new tricks she picked up in Haiti.  Erin believes she even found a case of Malaria.We treated nearly 40 patients.  Mike ran intake.  He took everyone's vital information and primary complaints.  He checked blood pressure, blood sugar, heart rate, height and weight.  Mike was able to pray with each person and give them an evangelism tract in Spanish.  The community was pleased to have their medical clinic back.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:649</id>
			<published>2010-02-23 09:13:07</published>
			<title type="text">Baseball, Burning And Bread</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[Erin and Lindsey are busy purchasing everything from toilet paper to peanut butter.  We have a short-term mission team arriving on Saturday and we are racing around to make sure we have everything ready for them.Work continues on our two acres of land in Armenia Bonito.  The workers chopped down the eight feet of grass and shrubs with machetes.  They did it through two days of pouring rain.  They wanted to work through the rain to beat the heat that was sure to follow.  They then stacked up all the weeds and grass and burnt it.  Next they started working on ripping out the old fence posts and barbed wire that line the property.On Tuesday at Kids Club we taught a lesson on Jesus calming the ocean.  During the game period beforehand we brought out a wiffle ball (like baseball) set that Sean picked up.  We were uncertain how the kids would do with throwing and batting.  Baseball is played in Honduras, but not much.  What surprised us the most is that most of the girls could hit and throw and most of the boys could not.  When we play soccer with the kids the girls don't play.  It was fun to get the girls involved in a team sport with the guys.]]></summary>
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		<entry>
			<id>pettengill:648</id>
			<published>2010-02-21 09:34:54</published>
			<title type="text">Boys Day Out – Games, Pizza And Jesus</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[On Saturday we hosted a boys day at our home.  Mike and our teammate Sean brought seven boys from Armenia Bonito over for a fun day.  These kids seldom get out of the poor community of Armenia Bonito, and when they do they dress up in their Sunday best.At 11:00am we all headed to our home, where we played video games with the kids.  Most of these kids have no experience with video games and they found it difficult to learn.  But, they had great fun playing car racing, sword fighting and boxing.  They played elimination tournaments, where the best keep playing and the looser sits down.  This allowed all of them to get lots of game time.We broke for lunch and ate pizza.  As usual the boys ate like it could be their last meal for a few days.  They stuffed themselves.  During the lunch break Mike provided a message on sin, salvation and heaven.  He shared with the boys a basic message on Jesus' plan for our lives.At the end of the day the boys did not want to go home.  They whined and begged for more.  We promised them there would be other opportunities.  With this promise of future fun they all piled in the car and headed back to Armenia Bonito.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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			<id>pettengill:647</id>
			<published>2010-02-19 10:16:44</published>
			<title type="text">Erin Back From Haiti</title>
			<summary type="text"><![CDATA[After being gone for three weeks Erin has returned from Haiti.  We are thrilled to have her home.She did some amazing work to help the survivors of the January 12th, 7.0 earthquake that killed over 200,000 people.Click on this link to see a four-minute video of the amazing work she did.Please continue to pray for the people of Haiti.]]></summary>
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			<author><name>Mike</name></author>
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