Mission Details

We go to Honduras as servants to our Honduran brothers and sisters in Christ. We serve side by side with them as part of a team that is working to make Honduras a better place to live. We are careful not to impose our cultural weirdness on them and try hard to adapt to their needs. Father Joe Rhodes of Baton Rouge recited for us the Honduras Mission Beatitude in his sermon at St. Mary’s in Tegucigalpa: “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape”.  Our being there to pray with and work with our brothers and sisters in Christ is more important than any physical thing we might accomplish while there.  And, we come away from this place of poverty and beautiful people with far more than we brought.

We ask that missioners make a full commitment to the mission because each person is critical to its success. Pre-trip meetings are important to allow the team to be bound by the Holy Spirit and for mission planning. Pre-trip meetings are listed below:

Monday, September 15 - 1st Team Meeting	7 pm	Epiphany
Monday, October 20    - 2nd Team Meeting	7 pm	Good Shepherd
Monday, November 17  - 3rd Team Meeting	7 pm (1/2 deposit due)	Epiphany
Friday, December 12    - Remaining 1/2 deposit due	Midnight	Mail to Honduras Mission, 421 Custer Rd., Richardson, 75080
Sunday, January 18	6 pm - Epiphany Only	Annual Parish dinner fund raiser
Friday, Saturday, January 23-24	6-9 pm Friday, 9-2 pm Saturday	Team Spiritual Retreat, Good Shepherd
Saturday, February 7	5:30 - 9:00	Team Dinner at Fr. Cavanaugh's
Sunday, February 8	8:45 Service at Epiphany, 10:30 Service at Good Shepherd	Team Commissioning(s)
Wednesday, February 11	5:30 am	Team Departs for Siguatepeque
Wednesday, February 18	6:30 pm	Team Returns to DFW
Sunday, March 29	6:30 pm	Post Trip Team Dinner at Christy Herrscher's home

 

The Honduras Mission Trip is primarily sponsored by Epiphany-Richardson, and Good Shepherd - Dallas with support from other Dallas area churches.  The primary ministries are Christian Education and construction. These ministries provide support in areas where the need is greatest.  Some of these areas and needs are fairly constant from year to year while others vary.

 

The budget for the mission trip is approximately $45,000.00.  Each missioner is asked to pay his/her travel and accommodation expenses, however budget is available to support missioners who cannot afford to pay their own way. Otherwise the cost is $1000 per person for round trip airfare and hotel expenses which includes all but about three meals.  The rest of the $45,000.00 is spent on construction and Christian Education supplies. Each missioner carries his/her entire weeks clothes and toiletries in a carry-on bag. A large, 50 lb. military duffle bag full of construction and Christian Education supplies are checked on the flight by each missioner. This avoids shipping fees and maximizes the amount of supplies we can get there per dollar budget. In addition to paying their own travel and accommodations we ask each missioner to raise $400 to help support the cost of the Mission.

 

Some immunizations are necessary: Typhoid, Tetanus, and Hepatitis A can be gotten at the Dallas County Health Services on the Stemmons Expwy. outer road just past the Inwood exit.

 

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