05/04/2026
Matthew 28:19-20
(19) Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
To God be the Great Glory!
As the Missionary journey draws near to Honolulu, Hawaii, I have been asked how God’s ministry: Hope Unlimited Ministry’s Missionary journey began to Honolulu, Hawaii. Well, it began with the Lord placing on my heart to “Go” to Honolulu Hawaii and minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ and provide ministry services there and take a team.
Praise God! I said “Yes Lord”! Over the years when the Lord says “Go”, I seek Him with all my heart, pray, trust Him and Go! To God be the Great Glory, as He orchestrated the process of my going on His Missionary Journey to Honolulu, Hawaii!
Though now I will be networking with a ministry there that will be providing housing and various areas of networking in Hawaii of ministry services (sex-trafficking, counseling, working with precious widows, precious families and children, and precious homeless families), I had already purposed in my heart prior to the plans and networking to “Go” and yet not knowing how the Lord was going to work everything out. Praise the Lord, He opened a beautiful door with a ministry and its administrative staff that I had previously never met or heard of.
Yet, through the journey the Lord used one precious young lady that I had been praying with to share with me about the wonderful ministry in Honolulu Hawaii as “His Will” began to unfold. And, Praise God, the journey now begins in July 2026 with a wonderful team. Praise God!
The Lord had placed on my heart in previously years to “Go” to New Orleans and minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ there. I had never been to New Orleans, but my Great God orchestrated everything for me to go to New Orleans and bring teams over the years. Later New Orleans was devastated by Katrina as the Lord continued to have me bring teams to New Orleans after Katrina, though a hard journey, it was truly a blessing!
By God’s Grace, during my first journey to New Orleans the Lord opened the door for the team and I to stay at the New Orleans Theology Seminary.
Later, the Lord continued to open doors for me to bring teams to New Orleans as the team and I later stayed at the ministry of Pastor Greg Hand and his wife at his church called Vieux Carre Baptist church on Dauphine Street which was right in the heart of the French Quarters where we ministered day and night.
Yet all the locations, the Lord said “Go”, such as Clarksdale Mississippi a location which I knew nothing of, my Great God enabled me to take teams repairing houses, providing Vacation Bible School, ministering to precious lives in the housing projects and ministering the Gospel of Jesus Christ as the Lord opened many doors there.
As the Lord orchestrated many open doors there, enabling me to network through phone calls and research prior to my arrival, but arriving the Lord had did more than I could ever imagine. Ephesians 3:20 Through these various travels the Lord has given me many precious relationships within the body of Jesus Christ in these various areas.
So as it has been in other states!
Joshua 1:9 (9) “Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
When God says Go, Trust Him with all of your heart, and He will work everything out that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will go forth! I encourage you to continuously pray and Trust God…He will bring it to pass…
Even in my inadequacies and fears God has been Faithful and what God had promised He surely did Mightily perform. Romans 4:21
Go! God is Faithful, Good and He is Able! Ephesians 3:20
Yet, rejoicing I "Praise God" for the lives that received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior John 3:16
Love Sister, Rita Matthew 28
