Liberty Baptist Church

Missionaries To Honduras

Missionary John (Jack) & Verdia
Henderson

64 Crab Apple Lane
P. O. Box # 962
Crossville, Tennessee 38557
Phone (931) 707-9029

Email Address: [email protected]

John and Verdia Henderson Crossville residents and members of Liberty Baptist Church have spent over twenty years as missionaries to rural Honduras. They committed themselves to full time Christian service in 1970 and enrolled in Tennessee Temple University in preparation for whatever and wherever the Lord might lead. After completion of studies there and a call to the mission field of Honduras they completed nine months of deputation and nine months in language school arriving on the field in 1978.

During the following years John served as church planter, teacher, maintenance foreman on a mission compound as well as the many unexpected things that came up each day. Mission medical and construction teams as well as the varied needs of the people of Honduras more than filled each day for the next twenty years.

Verdia served at the beginning as teacher for some seven or more missionary children. As the children grew up or moved on there were the village children to teach in the churches, ladies bible studies, work with medical teams and the many "extras"; that fill the life of a housewife in an area without electricity or the ability to jump in the car and go whenever and wherever one might like. One year was spent in the capital city of Tegucigalpa in which both Verdia and John worked in a ministry of getting the gospel into the public and private school. That work is the ministry of a national pastor who continues to go into some fourteen schools.

After more than twenty years, health problems and an assurance that God was leading elsewhere brought them back to Crossville where they now reside in the Homestead area. They are available to minister through the church in whatever way needed as well as John returning to the field for a few months each year to help with various projects in the area of his special gifts. This year he plans to leave on March l4, 2000.  He has already been asked by an orphanage to build cabinets, bookshelves, tables and doors for them as well as construction of metal trusses for a building in which to house and teach students in the Bible Institute in which they also worked for many of their years there.

John and Verdia worked in ten different villages during those twenty years and five of them now have their own churches with national pastors. They continue to keep in touch with the people there encouraging them through prayer, letters and what financial help they are able to send. They are also interested in ministering to the Spanish-speaking people in Cumberland County as opportunities arise.

Please pray for John and Verdia