Published QuarterlySALUDOS!fromBAJIO CHRISTIAN MISSIONVol. 25, Number1Las BrisasM/M Bill HoffApdo. 3166San Pedro SulaHonduras, Central AmericaCorporate OfficeP.O. Box 61013Las Vegas. NV89160-2013Spring 1994One of Bill's ministries is teaching in Las Brisas. Las Brisas is a squatter connmunity ]^he sit^of mrange ab^ean^^west of San^^^ T^ieChristmasgifts and thosewho prepared pr^^ching. Rebecca holds teacher's son.tfiem. When theHoifs arrived last August,LasBrisashad just been leveledbythe authorities inan attempt to preservethe mountains as awatershed andsave the rain forest. Only a few houses around the school survived, but now building hasaccelerated and thereare morethan eighty elementary gradestudentsinthe school. Thevillagers live inconstant fearthatatany timetheir houses may bedemolished, and theywill be homeless.Thecommunity hadelectricity until February when a national shortage causedthe electric company to cut their lines.(The power was being stolen.) Services areconducted by flashlights andcandles. Bible readings are difficult because ofthe darkness, but Bill takes the Bible text printed in very large type sothat hecanteach. The singing isvery joyful; one ofthe believers plays a guitar and his wife leads singing. Just last week ayoung lady was baptized. She isthe first in her family.The Schnellers andHoffs took upa Christmas gift for every family in thevillage. It consisted ofapproximately twenty-five pounds ofrice, beans, corn, sugar, shortening, and some candy anda plastic toy for eachchild. These people were verygrateful because they live in abject poverty.Rebecca holds teacher's son.Class at school.BaptismSite Chosen for Bible InstitutemmBuUdozer leveling land.~. ,.,. -^1 Some of you will remember that one of the chief reasons thatHoffs were going to Honduras was to establish a Bible institute.Vj ' M\ . ,V-''^ inonths have passed, how are they doing?^ 1_A Because funding for institute property is not at present avail-uB- able,Bill hasbeen forced toconsider somealternatives. Aftermuchdeliberation, hehaschosenanunusual concept forthe=^. -, :|B|H t, campus.He has decided to lease property, in the last few years^ landprices in Honduras have skyrocketed,soalongterm leaseseems to offer the best alternative to purchasing. Billexplains thata lease goes contrary to all of hispreconceived ideas about BibleC' colleges because: he attended Pacific Christian College where hisT Jk>' ;jlli grandfather had attended before him, andhe taught at JohnsonBible College, acentury-old institution. But after muchprayer, itBuUdozer leveling land. became apparent that if a school were to beestablished, it wouldhave to follow a different pattern. Because of Bill's experience inMexico, he believes that para