January 2012

Pastor Walter hired to be new Honduran Director!

I am very pleased and privileged to announce that Pastor Walter Bermudez is the new Director for Corazón Para Honduras (Heart to Honduras) in Central America. The search for our new director stretched to over a year, but we are excited to have Pastor Walter join our ministry family.Last week while I was in Honduras, I had the privilege of officially welcoming Pastor Walter and introducing him to La Junta (the leadership council of Brazos Abiertos) and to the staff. The response of our Honduras leaders was very encouraging! The message is clear: We are ready to rally behind our new leader and move forward in ministry! Read more

 

Honduran Safety Concerns

In December 2011 Heart to Honduras became aware of the Peace Corps’ intention to pull their workers and volunteers out of Honduras due to growing concerns of violence in Honduras and Central America. As always, we monitor situations like this in an effort to know how it will affect the people, our staff, areas where we work, and how it will affect the hundreds of volunteer short-term missions workers who travel with Heart to Honduras annually. Read more

 

Eldridges in rain forest

Kaleb and Stacey Eldridge choose a community

Here we come! We are Kaleb and Stacey Eldridge, and we moved from our home in Dayton, OH to Honduras last September, working with Heart to Honduras as Community Development Staff. After several months of running all over Honduras trying to identify a community in which we can begin the process of community development, we’re finally settling down and making a community selection. The selection was difficult as there are many communities that we felt deserved consideration. In the end we let the level of community need, the desire of the local Brazos Abiertos pastor to affect his community for the Kingdom, the village’s proximity to the HTH office in San Isidro, and the leading of the Lord guide our decision. This year, we’ll be moving into …. Read more

 

Baptism Honduran Style

It’s one of the most beautiful waterfalls we’ve ever seen… tropical, about 50 feet tall, with clear, clean water. While we were all gathered together on the bank, Pastor Fredy (La Concepción) explained the significance of baptism to everyone gathered. We sang and prayed. Then the action moved down to the water. The two pastors walked into the pool at the base of the falls and two lines of men followed them in and made an entryway for those that were there to be baptized. The singing started again, louder this time, and one by one, the new believers went forward… Read more

 

The Children’s Home Project

Jenny Kast works part time for Heart to Honduras as the Director of The Children’s Home Project (visit the TCHP website). She writes to you this month about her January trip to visit the Orphanages that she works with. Joining her on the trip were two former Ambassador Program students: Haley Janssen and Lauren Vincent (who now lives full-time in Honduras working with children and orphanages).

It has now been two months since an electrical fire in the ceiling of the girls’ room in Nueva Esperanza prompted the evacuation of all children from this government home.  All but about 35 of the kids have been permanently placed in privately run children’s homes around the country.  Nearly 100 of the kids were moved to a very large center outside of Tegucigalpa.  The addition of these children brings the total in this home to around 550.  Lauren Vincent, Haley Janssen and I were able to visit them recently and although it is a beautiful, sprawling campus nearly all of the kids were asking when they could go back to Nueva Esperanza… Read more
 
 

Christmas Coffee

Coffee on Sale! Feliz Navidad from Heart to Honduras
Though the Christmas season is past we still have a delicious supply of Boston Stoker’s Heart to Honduras Christmas Blend! This roasty coffee has hints of caramel and coconut that will warm you past the Christmas season.Christmas Blend is only available until our limited supply is gone. When it’s gone, it’s gone until November 2012! To help us finish off our small supply we are taking $3.50 off the price of each pound.

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We will continue selling the HTH’s Café Burro as well as Boston Stoker’s Heart to Honduras Select all year long.

 
 

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