Rick and Cheryl on Adventure

Trying Times Our last weeks in Honduras are not what we had expected. Since returning from Guatemala, we have been involved in work of the ministry with the intention to return to Canada on April 2nd. That plan has been scuttled. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to gain momentum, this post is being written under an isolation curfew and uncertainty about how long we will be forced to stay here. More on that at the end of the post. One of the events we had wanted to  experience while here is the m onthly meeting that Pastor Victor holds for all of the K-6 sponsored families. It is an opportunity for SOH staff to encourage them and see how they are doing. The whole family comes out to one of the schools and Pastor Victor opens with a devotional. Then letters and gifts from sponsors are handed out and any pictures that need to be taken for sponsors are snapped. Since sponsorship funds are able to provide a small food hamper for the family each month, next was the grouping of familie

Every day is a good day with Hector and Ruth Ruth preparing Spanish rice for 26 Hector receiving a gift from a family which he re-gifted later in the day  Hector and Ruth Aragon have been serving in Guatemala for 21 years and administer one of the child sponsorship programs under Child Care Plus (CCP) that several of our global worker colleagues operate around the LAC region. We were invited to visit the Aragons and experience their ministry first-hand so that Rick could review the operations and provide some organizational advice. We spent 8 days with them, hosted in their home, which is also where Canadian ministry teams come for short term work deployments.  Little by little, over twenty years, Hector and Ruth have expanded their home and team lodgings on their property to accommodate teams as large as 16.  Between the team building and the extra rooms in the main house, they have 12 bathrooms! Back yard of he Aragon home. Just out of sight at the top of the steps i

Back to School in Honduras Who needs 120 bottles of glue, 450 notebooks, 80 dictionaries, 560 pencils, 160 erasers and 120 sharpeners to start the school year?  School in these parts starts the beginning of February and the Schools of Hope (SOH) team here in Tegucigalpa are busy making sure their sponsored students will be fully equipped to resume their education after a 10-week break. Cheryl and I arrived in Honduras on January 9th and will be working with the team here for almost three months. This is our second time in Teguc, as we spent 7 weeks here back in November 2016.   The Capital of Honduras -Tegucigalpa One facet of this ministry is child sponsorship through ERDO, which is the development arm of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC).  More than 270 students are sponsored by Canadians through monthly donations that cover costs like school fees, uniforms and school supplies. 1 39 sponsored students attend grades 2-6 at three elementary schools in the area where SOH