Honduras
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What You are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god. ~Hans Urs Von BalthasarOur St. Stephen the Martyr Honduras Mission ministry is a Mission of Love and Service. Our team travels to Honduras to do a small part in supporting the overall mission of Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos (SAN) - to help the neglected and impoverished children of Honduras and develop them into self-sufficient citizens that will go out and do the same for others. When we travel to Honduras on Mission, we believe we have a dual purpose to help improve their facilities with our resources and labor, and more importantly to share our love with the children we are called to serve.
At the end of 2019 we and fellow supporters completed constructing a new house for the project our children live in. This will allow SAN to care for 10 additional impoverished children. Unfortunately, due to COVID and other reasons, they have not yet been able to receive the 10 children. This should happen by the end of 2020. Our Honduras ministry is trying our best to help provide SAN funding for the new children they will care for. We would appreciate any donations you provide in care of the new children and more importantly, if you were willing to create a relationship with a child and sponsor the child at $35 per month. Let us know if you are interested in sponsoring a child and we will provide you more information.
Our ministry has been loving and serving the children of Honduras since 2008. We typically travel to Honduras in February and are always looking for new mission team members to join us.
Honduras Mission co-leaders- Patrick Flanigan [email protected] and Debbie Dullenty [email protected]
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Our Mission
The philosophy of our St. Stephen Honduras Mission team is to do a small part in supporting the overall
mission of SAN - to help the neglected and impoverished children of Honduras and develop them into self-sufficient citizens that will go out and do the same for others. When we travel to Honduras on Mission, we believe we have a dual purpose to help improve their facilities with our resources and labor, and more importantly to share our love with the children we are called to serve. Sonia, the director of the Pedro Atala orphanage, explains how she loves St. Stephen's groups because of the love we show for her children. That is what she wants for her children, to know they are loved. -
Who We Are Serving
Sociedad Amigos de los Niños (SAN) was founded in 1966 to provide shelter and safety for Honduras’ vulnerable children—neglected, abandoned, abused, or orphaned in one of the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Led by its founder, Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, SAN’s children’s homes and programs provide a safe and loving haven for kids desperate for care, attention, and a chance for a brighter future. Sister Maria, an 86 year old Franciscan Sister, and SAN have rescued and educated over 40,000 children in Honduras since Sister started the organization. She has received many national and international humanitarian awards for her services to the children of Honduras and is affectionately called the Mother Teresa of Honduras. -
Why You Should Join US
We are often asked, “So what do you do in Honduras?” It is an interesting question to answer because we really do have a fantastic fun time there, but we never want to give the impression our mission trip is a “vacation”. We prepare for and go to Honduras with a spirit of service focusing on developing and maintaining relationships with the orphaned children of Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos (SAN), the people of Honduras, and performing manual labor to improve the facilities that the children live in. Both our work and the relationships are important parts of our mission.
These kids are so easy to love and play with. They love attention, like kids everywhere, but do not have
parents to provide them the attention they desire and most children receive. We try to converse with them as best we can. All of the kids at Pedro Atala attend English class and many of them are very willing to practice with us. But just sitting quietly next to a child is also a blessing for us and for the child you are sitting with. Yes, some are shy and reserved, but they still crave attention, they just don’t project their needs. Sitting with them and reading or just holding their hand sends a message that you care.
And this is what our mission is all about – We do care about them, we try to be in solidarity with them and recognize their dignity in God’s eyes. We travel to Honduras to share our resources, time and talents in a way that shows them God’s love through our interactions with them.