More Plans

Today you can start the 100 day count-down. I have just returned from a great 5 days of planning in Honduras and I’d like to share some of the specifics.

Work Locations –

Los Pinos is a community that is familiar to many of us. We have worked there for the past couple of years and we will have an opportunity to visit there however, our major project work will take place in several new areas. There is a team of Baxter students working in Los Pinos that is doing a wonderful work and we will have an opportunity to meet them and hear about their work.

La Paz is about 2 hours outside of Tegucigalpa and we are planning to send a team of 30 to 40 on a “TORCH Road Trip”. This team will be working on a church building project. The church in La Paz has been building a new facility for several years and we are going to help them “Get ‘er done”. We will complete the floor, the roof, and build a simple classroom on the back of the building. When we leave, they will be able to begin meeting in their new building. We also plan to help the church with evangelism and a food distribution. The team will be out for one or two nights.

Santa Anna is a beautiful community about 18 miles outside of Tegucigalpa. Last week TORCH, Mi Esperanza, and the IRC was blessed with a beautiful piece of property that will be the center piece of many ministries in Honduras. Our team will be building a new church building for a group of Christians that is currently meeting in a park. Our evangelistic teams will be working in both Santa Anna and another close-by community called Ojojona. We will be building houses, distributing food, working with kids, and providing health care through medical and dental clinics.

There is a house on the property that will be converted into a medical clinic. By the end of the summer we will have build about 20 block houses on our property. In the next year we will build a children’s home for about 20 kids and we will be well on the way to constructing a training center for Mi Esperanza. God is good…….all the time.

Nuevo Oriental is one of the poorest communities that I have ever seen. There are currently about 200 families living there in houses that are made with anything that they could find. If you have been to Honduras, you know that building materials are in short supply – especially scraps. We will be building houses and feeding people in Nuevo Oriental. The community needs Jesus because He is hope. We will be sharing Jesus by our work and our words. We will have more plans for this community.

Of course we will have many more ministry opportunities than ever. We are planning to work with some very special kids that live in a great children’s home that is managed by a guy named Jimmy Hughes. These kids are all victims of terrible things like having seen their parents murdered or rape or any number of events that can cause mental trauma. We are going to be blessed by working with these kids.

I’ll be sharing even more work plans over the next few weeks. Please keep on watching for more news.

We are going to have great days in Honduras

Marc