About

A former teacher, John Taylor went to Honduras 38 years ago at the invitation of Jean Isbell for what was to be two weeks. He is still there.

John believes square one in all our callings is to make disciples for Christ. In his work in Honduras that takes on a number of forms, but this is the pattern:

Bring a person to know Christ as Savior, then grow him up to do the same.

He focuses on developing national leadership for indigenous Honduras ministries through mentoring, seminars, and counseling.  His modus operandi through the years has been to bring pastors and other church leaders together for a seminar, then to do a walking (or riding a mule or in a canoe, or bouncing along on the back of a pickup) tour of the given area, visiting each pastor in his home and church.

On these tours, He will take one to three pastors with him from a different area. This affords him 24/7 time with those men, and he can see them in action as they minister publicly and privately.

In the seminars, he has people at all levels of experience, eduction and spiritual maturity. This makes it difficult to speak to all at one level. He is in the beginning stages of building a Ministerial Education Center to which he can bring smaller groups of those already in the ministry for in-depth and focused study at their common level of education and experience.

He is as of Feb 5, 2011, 68 years old, and his physical ability for days of walking over mountains and through rivers and swamps will someday begin to wane. The Ministerial Education Center will enable him to continue the important job of commending unto other capable leaders what he has learned in 50 years of this work.