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Monday, December 20, 2021

Two Years After Honduras

It has been two years since I have returned to what had become a home for me. I have not gone this long since before I was a teenager.  It feels weird to say the least. I have felt a bit lost this summer. Even after graduating from Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College with my Doctorate of Education in Leadership & Learning in Organizations, the end of my degree path, I am still incomplete without waking each day in the depths of Honduras.  

Does it sound weird for a man who bought his first house with his soulmate to long for a lumpy mattress in an old jail cell under thatched roof?  How about trading the steak for beans? Seeing something from justice and impoverishment perspective?  This is what happened when I spent my most formative years watching the most important people in my life bring me along with them on mission teams to the N. Coast of Honduras from 1998-2019.

My hunger to relive memories and make additional attempts to deliver another educational workshop with Agentes Comunitarios de Salud Integral (AHMEN's Community Education program), however, will always pale in comparison to my true goal.  I am ready to make another attempt to build a team to help me create an app that can be used by every single volunteer in Honduras to learn more about where each other work, when, with whom, and with what foci.  I wrote about it and attempted to raise money for this app in the past.  I have made no progress though because I have been relying on others to get started.

NOT ANY MORE!!

I want to come speak to your church, small group, school faculty, club, business, and nonprofit.  We need every single person who has ever gone to Honduras with you or around you to help me build a map of volunteerism in Honduras.  With this map we can see what the external safety net looks like and thereby strengthen it.  Just like I was brought along on an initial project to Honduras in 1998 that would change my life, now I ask you to let me bring you along to change the lives of millions.  Let's partner for the future of missions in Honduras.  For it is together that we are the difference.

Friday, February 19, 2021

Happy V-Day, Sonia!

It is easy to forget that real people are hurting outside our homes because of the struggles going on behind our front doors.  



It is easy to forget pain exists beyond our neighborhoods for the ongoing problems on every street corner.

Beyond the city walls are billions of people who are experiencing a time in history of unbelievable wealth for so few and a life vulnerable to poverty, sickness, and death for so many.



These are the faces of but a few of your brothers and sisters who live on the outskirts of La Ceiba, Honduras. 


They don't have much of physical value but are wealthy beyond compare because they have love in their hearts.




And even more than what one person can muster, the Hondurans pictured here are friends with an angel on earth.








Happy Valentine's Day, Sonia!! Thank you for everything you do for your friends and neighbors.