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The mission to Honduras started with a
few people and has expanded to many people from many different denominations and
churches working together to improve the lives of people in Southwest Honduras... More ...
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About Us
The mission to Honduras started with a few people and has expanded to many people from many different denominations and churches working together to improve the lives of people in Southwest Honduras... More ...
Articles
Another Successful Mission Trip!
January 9-17, 2010
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Hello again after another rewarding mission to Honduras. We appreciate your support. Here is what we accomplished this past year in Honduras with your help. Our plans for the future include you.
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Honduras Mission:
A Year In Review
In January 2009 the mission team returned after another successful effort in Puerto Grande and Moropocay.
The construction team, led by Sam Lowe, built a shelter for Pastora Raquel’s outdoor oven so that she would be able to prepare her tortillas in inclement weather (she had previously had to go without food on many days in the rainy season because she could not use her oven). We also did indoor painting in the church and arranged for the floor to be tiled by local workmen after our departure.
The medical and dental teams continued their usual clinics, and expanded the use of the medical records system. (Dr. Moreno has been using these charts as well during his interim visits.) Dr. Moreno told us that he has begun to see the results of increased frequency of clinics: The diabetic and hypertensive villagers are in better control.
The vacation bible school workers were exhausted but happy, having entertained throngs of children for four days in the hot sun.
We ended our week with a wedding in Puerto Grande, and the traditional farewell dinner and team meeting to plan for 2009-2010. We decided to give our ecumenical group a real name: The Kurtz Humanitarian Initiative for Southwest H onduras, or KHISH, named for our founder, Dick Kurtz of Trinity Presbyterian church in B erwyn, Pennsylvania.
We established a website, www.khish.org.
February and March 2009
We presented reports to the mission and evangelism committee, the forum class, and a Wednesday night supper.
Funds for Dr. Moreno’s April clinics were released from the church budget for the purchase of medicines
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We are a small group dedicated to working with the people of Honduras to improve the lives of people in southwest Honduras, particularly the villages of Moropocay and Puerto Grande. The people of Southwest Honduras are friendly, and they work hard to improve their communities. They appreciate greatly our efforts to improve their health and living conditions. We would like to have you join us on one of our trips to Honduras or in our efforts in the United States to collect resources for our projects .
Previous Trip Report
PREPARATION FOR THE TRIP
As usual, we spent a lot of time during 2008 preparing for the
trip, fundraising, gathering supplies and making plans for how we can best
conduct medical and dental clinics and do construction projects in
We continue to work closely with Central American Relief Effort
(C.A.R.E - Steve Mentzer) and with Mission Relief Services,
(Jim Harrison) to improve the lives of the people in
Missionary Trips
The next mission trip is Jan 9-16, 2010. Please join us if you can, or help us prepare to collect supplies for the medical and dental clinics and for the construction projects we will be undertaking. Read more
News
Dental Symposium
On Tuesday, January 6, 2009,
fifteen visiting dentists joined us for a Dental Symposium in Pespire.
These dentists and dental hygienists came from all over Southwest
Honduras. They had coffee and breakfast at La Casada while the leaders of
the Symposium fine-tuned the program. The leaders included Dr. Alex Moreno
Sanchez, his wife, Dra. Hortenzia Valladares, Dr. Leonard Jensen, Maria Elena
and Martha Suarez. They conducted a first-class, give-and-take seminar on
dental practices in Honduras and in the United
States.
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