Blessings come when you least expect it!

So I'm sitting in a dinner in po dunk Tennessee eating my lunch and the waitress says boy you smell like a camp fire and I told her I was cutting down some trees and burning the brush she asked where and I told her just up the road. She said you don't know the address and I replied no I'm not from here. Then she said what's your tattoo mean I told her it was the life of Jesus. She said you believe that and I said enough to give my life to missions. As I go to pay she says its on the house then reaches in her tip jar and hands me her days tips and says only if more people lived the life they claim all I could say was well thank you and told she was was living a life pleasing to God for giving when she felt lead. I tell you this season of life has brought me more moments like that than I can recall thanks be to God.

All support is appreciated as this life's work cannot be done with out God and his support through His people. Prayer support and financial support are always in need. If you are able to support financially please visit http://www.ignitemissions.org/#!contact/c175r this will take you directly to the support link. Simply follow the provided directions and add Coy Houston Davis in the memo line. Thank you for your support emotionally, spiritually, prayerfully, and financially.

Praise be to the King of Kings and Lord of Lords!

This is the greatest season of my life.  God is really showing me and showing up in all aspects of my life.  I wanna first and formost give a huge thanks to all my finacial and prayer partners, your work has not been in vain. After the Ignite fundraising tour and my efforts since I have been home I am excited to announce that the Lord has blessed beyond my wildest imagination.  My goal was to raise the support for my tuition and housing before I left for school this was $13,000, I have reached that. I have received my acceptance letter from the school, got all my bases covered back home with my property and possessions, and I have booked my plane ticket. I will be moving to Costa Rica January 4th and will be in country till December 15 of 2015. So if anyone wants a reason to vacation I would welcome the company Haha. Although I have reached my funding goal for school the real task still lays ahead of me. I know that God will bring the people that are willing and ready to commit to support the efforts I am making in Honduras. My current and continual need is monthly supports, it is great getting one time donations, but I can not build a budget and have a plan in place for ministry till I have an Idea of what my monthly support is.  Please continue to pray what part you could play in this there is no gift that is to small literally $20 a month HELPS. I wanted t leave you with this, I have been invited to share with a men's group my vision and needs they where awesome, encouraging and very inviting. So much they have taken me in haha, they are an older group of men with some great wisdom it is so awesome to sit with the and learn. Last night God hit me with there words, we were in the text about the Centurion that came to Jesus and asked if Him if he would heal his valued servant, but told Jesus that he was not worthy for Jesus to visit his home, for Him to simply say it be done and it would be done. Because he understood authority being a man that was in a position of authority and when he told one to go he would go, or come and he would come.  So last night I feel that God really just laid it on me that in this process I should not worry with my needs and funding and people to partner with me or even me being effective on the ground there on the mission field, because its not me but the authority that I am being sent with and by. I wonder how much more effective we as a people of Christ would be if we lived and served in His authority and not our own.


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My Plea

Well here it goes the fund raising has began!  I'm finding that the hardest thing about being a missionary is defiantly finding a balance of when to work and make money to survive in the moment, and going to try to find the people and resources that are going to allow me to move into a full time position.  I went before the board of directors for the mission and was approved as a full time missionary.  Ignite Missions is an independent mission, this has its advantages and disadvantages. The plus side is that we can serve freely where we choose unlike if you go through a funded organization such as the IMB they tell you where and when you will serve, but they give you a set salary to live in your designated area, the down side to that is typically they are underfunded and live in questionable conditions.  Since the mission does not receive support from those large organizations, it is not able to employ a North American, because they could employ a Honduran for a 1/10 of the annual need I have.  The advantage to me raising my own support is that I get to be more like a partner than an hired employee, which will give me the freedom to carryout the ministry and call that the Lord is calling me to.  I am gaining support I do not want to sound as I am not getting any support, but it is one time donations which I am very great full for it.  That being said it is very hard to plan out anything longterm without getting monthly support.  Honestly that is my plea for people to pray about what they might be called to give on a monthly basis.  I have been mediating on Romans 12:3-8 it talks about the body of Christ and I truly feel called to be a servant, and once again I am asking people that have been blessed to see what part they can play as a supporter of the needs.  I truly feel that the only way that the gospel will move forward and that we become a people becoming disciples that makes disciples is that we start to function as a healthy body ''The Body Of Christ''.  I have been on the road and going from place to place sleeping from couch to couch hotel to hotel, an God is really surrounding me with some awesome partners in ministry and honestly that's what I more of, I don't wanna do this alone I want people to come on this journey with me and allow God to use and bless their willing hearts.  Will it be you?

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Sitting States side

     Wow never thought that I would be feeling what I feel.  I'm home, the place that I have called home and known as home and felt homesick for every time I have been away from, until now.  My calling is being affirmed by my desire to be back on the mission field.  I have had some amazing things take place since being back though.  The biggest being I was approved by the board of directors for Ignite Missions, I am officially a partnering missionary.  There has also been some really amazing God things take place other than that.  I was privileged the opportunity to speak at my home church, and share with my family all the amazing things that took place over the summer, and I was able to cast my vision for my future plans.  I brought back 150lbs of green coffee beans to help raise support, and through Gods network I met an amazing couple willing to partner with me to roast, bag and label my coffee.  It has been a great way to share and connect with people I otherwise would have never been able to connect to.  Although I must admit getting the coffee back was quite the adventure.  I received it in 10lb brown paper bags wrapped in plastic wrap, there are other things that come out of central America that look like that haha.  I have been met with an overwhelming amount of people that just have been loving on me, and it is an amazing feeling honestly the one thing I missed was my church family and living life together with them.  My needs at this point are as follows.
1. Raise $12,000.00 for language school, flights to renew visa, and room and board.
2. Begin to build a network of places and people to share my vision.
3. After raising the support for school begin to raise support sustaining me on a yearly basis starting January 2016 with a budget of $35,000-$40,000 a year. Which will include housing, transportation, and basic living needs.
4. Begin to find support for the construction ministry vision I shared in my last post $400 for each project.
There is really no way to make this happen without monthly support and there is no support that is to little $5, $10, $20, $50, $100.
If you would like to meet me or get more info fell free to contact me. coydavis2893@gmail.com

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Last post from Honduras

  Well this is it, my last post this year from Honduras.  It truly has been an incredible experience, truly life altering.  I wanted to share my last experience here, and the men that I served with that really brought the vision full circle.  Our last team proved to to be the team I was wanting to lead this whole season.  It was ten men working construction and five working a veterinarian team.  I must say that these men came to work, so we had scheduled four projects for the travailing construction team to do, four day worth of work to finish the Sunday school rooms at our church in Correletos, and the Vet men had four different villages to visit that we had went ahead and arranged for the men to bring their animals to a field clinic.  I lead the traveling construction guys out to our first project, it was literally straight up the side a mountain by way of a goat trail.  We were pouring a floor in a house of 8 people, and by pouring a floor I mean hand mixing about thirteen yards of concrete haha.  These men from Houston Texas were some real solid dudes and definitely not scared to get dirty and finish the job.  At the end of the day I think that we all had fulfilled what it was that God had brought us to the that house to do, and walked away felling a little more like brothers in Christ.  The next day was no different as we made footers for a home Honduran style, where you take a bed of cement lay huge rocks, then fill the large voids with smaller rocks then pour cement between it all.  Then repeat till the process is complete and you have filled the footer solid till it is level with grade.  This all took place in the blazing Honduran sun but I truly fell that it was a blessing, and we joked and laughed and the guys really started to bond with the Hondurans that were there helping us.  We left and the soon to be homeowners were truly grateful for this blessing that these men had been to them in the process of starting to build their home.  Everyday these men and myself were working to the point of exhaustion and unlike myself these men did not come from a background of construction.  Regardless of their background they were truly honoring God with their sweat and blood.  The third day was a concrete slab for another home, it was really cool this house was going to be built with this huge rock as one of the corners of it.  It was about fifteen yards of concrete hand mixed,  but before that we moved all the bags of cement, gravel, sand, and tools about 300 feet down a cow trail.  Then we had to level the ground and tamp the loose soil before pouring the slab.  This was by far the most demanding day and left all of us battered by the sun and lose of water.  The next day was to be the last and it was a roof for a family that had lost everything in a fire.  This project was not going to be an all day thing so I asked the men if they would be willing to help me with a personal project.  There is a man named Ruben that has helped me all year long on projects.  He is building a house, and God laid it on my heart to bless him with the funds that people have so generously blessed me with.  So I asked him what he needed, he said "the framing and roof" so that he could go ahead and move in and stop having to pay rent and put his money toward finishing his home.  So I went and purchased all the materials required, dropped them off and met the men finished the first roof, then went and like I told them the Holy Spirit moved, cause we framed a 18x24 roof system and roofed it in 3 hours.  Now working with my guys in the states not a big deal, but these guys like I said were not construction workers.  They were that day they allowed themselves to be the hands and feet.  That night they decided they came to work and wanted to opt out of the tourist day we take our teams on.  So the last day I found them another floor to pour and they finished in fine fashion.  I was extremely honored to have had the opportunity to lead these men.  God really revealed to me in a big way what it is that He would have me do.  This is it I have a huge vision but I believe in a big God, I truly believe that the way to reach men here is through partnering with them and improving their families living condition.  After I attend language school funding pending I will be able to communicate my heart and passion for the Lord to them as we work together,  in hopes that it will gain trust and respect to open doors to discipleable hearts.  In turn raising up leaders among the men here.  How will this be done?  Well my vision is to raise support to the point of starting at the front of a village with a team or locals and bless every family regardless of status or connection sharing the message of the love that the saints in the States have for them only requiring one thing and that is that the family must participate in the work in some form or fashion so that we do not breed a culture of handouts when the missionaries show up.  Eventually ending up at the end of village with a thriving cell of men after the heart of God wanting to change their lives and the lives of the people under their leadership, thus God will form a church from.  Little different than building a building and inviting people to it.  Here is what it will take I would like to be able to do a project everyday for 4 days a week, that is 100 projects a year at 400$ a project that's 40000$ a year.  This is the vision God has given to me after my Five months here.  Language school is first though it is a must and it is 12000$ If God is laying any of this on your heart I would love to share more in depth with you, and you can give to the link below God bless your hands.

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     Wow, finally a MIN to update and catch my breath.  We have been going none stop, fast paced for the last month and a half.  We finished our team season strong with three teams in a row, back to back with no break.  The teams were very logistically demanding.  First we had a team that did youth in the morning and a women's conference in the afternoon.  While the whole time I was heading up a construction project on the elementary school, we erected a pavilion from scratch out of steel C channel and metal roofing, then poured a 33×24 concrete slab underneath. This all took place in just five days haha.  After finishing up this team we took them to the airport and as we said goodbye we rushed downstairs to greet our next team.  This team was different from all the rest that I've worked with this year, because they were from North Carolina specifically Asheville so I did have to explain where it was I lived previous to here and we were able to chat about things we both knew.  Also mid week I was blessed by my good friends and home church through these folks, as I received Christmas in July.  I was such a blessing to receive all the gifts and uplifting and encouraging words from all the folks that have been behind me during this whole journey.  This team was also very different because they hosted a very large youth conference.  Which meant we were working nights and weekends which was completely different from what we have done all summer.  Needless to say the Lord gained the increase from the labor, as the turnout was over 100 teens for four days straight.  Just as the week before we took them and said our goodbyes and then ran downstairs to greet the last of the straight threw teams.  This was Sams home church from Louisiana.  They were also doing a youth conference, but also had a budget to do construction.  I lead the construction project, and they were blessing a man and his family that was suffering from type 2 diabetes.  This man has had both legs cut off below the knee and his kidneys have shut down.  The mans son was having to work in his fathers place to provide for the family but was doing an amazing job.  What really impressed me about the young man was he was not waiting for us to change his life situation of his families he was doing the work, like we were supposed to install windows in the home.  He had it done before we arrived.  We were able to pour the bathroom floor, form a shower pan, pour the bedroom floors and build a handicap accessible bathroom stall for him.  This was a huge blessing because his son was having to carry him to the bathroom outside.  We also plumbed his toilet and shower.  It was an awesome thing to be part of.  As we dropped the team off at the airport we also checked into security and boarded a flight but not to the USA but to Costa Rica.  I had been here 90 days and my visa had expired, also I was able to go and tour the language school I pray God will allow me to attend starting in January.  I need to break down the language barrier in order to be effective.  The school is 12,500$ for the full three semesters which will be almost a full year but this cost covers everything housing, food, and all my school needs.  Please be in prayer about what part God would have you play in this process.

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    Well that was fun while it lasted, just finished up a fourteen day straight work week.  We literaly dropped off our Buena Vista team at the airport, and then ran down stairs to greet the next team that arrived on the plane that the other team was leaving on.  This team was also a multitask team, not as big as the previous team but it did have constuction ministry team, which obviously is where I jump right in.  I was not with the team as they traveled to the two diferent schools, but I do know their work for the Lord was not in vain as they seen twenty-six professions of faith.  Very happy to have met them and greatful for their hearts and service to the Lord.  The majority of my week was spent working with some very awesome men,  there was a mix in age there was a group of older guys and also some collage age guys.  I really was greatfull for the wisdom that the older men shared with me, and I was extremly greatful for the strong backs of the young men.  The first day was a bit rough the plan for the week was to get the roof system on the Sunday school rooms on one of the Ignite churches in a village close by, and also get the concrete floor poured in both rooms.  So we get there and first thing there was already oposition, the power was out in the whole village due to a tree taking out the power line and the roof system was all metal trusses that had to be designed, cut and welded.  No power made this impossible, so we started to paint the metal with corrosive resistant paint and fired up the concrete mixer and began to pour the floor. The next day power was restored and we began the work on the metal.  We flew through it as if the Holy Spirit was guiding our every move.  We finished the original project and was able to as a porch to the front of the school rooms. With a day to spare I loaded up the young men and went and roofed a house in a very remote village.