Honduras (MNN) — Lamentations 3:25 says, “The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.” FARMS International had to wait for God’s direction after a recent discovery trip to Honduras.
Executive Director Scott Clifton says his team was “on hold” after meeting local farmers. “The things they identified that would be helpful were outside of what FARMS as an organization could do,” he begins.
“Someone said, ‘I could really use a piece of equipment.’ Another person said, ‘I need transportation.’ Other people said that water was really an issue. There wasn’t one project that would help everybody.”
But the Lord didn’t keep FARMS International waiting for long. A week after returning from the discovery trip, Clifton learned about a program called “Farming God’s Way.”
“I was able to attend a workshop and realize very quickly that this is the thing that could help many people in Honduras.”
(Photo courtesy Gabriel Jimenez/Unsplash)
The training pairs God’s principles for living with business and agricultural practice. Learn more here.
“It’s a simple method. It’s repeatable. You don’t need to buy all these outside tools and equipment or specialized anything. It’s working with what people already have,” Clifton summarizes.
Next steps
To get involved, connect with FARMS International here. “If anything mentioned piques someone’s interest, then please reach out. I’d love to have a conversation,” Clifton says.
Pray for wisdom as FARMS prepares to introduce this method to Christian farmers in Honduras.
“It’s new to us, so there’ll be learning involved. There are also costs involved, between travelling and the food and lodging,” Clifton says.
Pray that planning and logistics come together smoothly to support the training workshops.
“It’ll be about a week long, and then there’ll need to be some follow-up, and we’ll need to put monitoring and evaluation in place – simple measures that allow us to see if it really is having an impact, and what that impact is, and then we go from there,” Clifton explains.
“Once it’s established, then there’d be other opportunities down the line [such as] introducing a cash crop or maybe having more of a business case where a revolving loan program could work.”
Header image is a representative stock photo depicting a farmer harvesting carrots in Honduras. Photo courtesy of Chente Colindres/Pexels.
