Our main purpose in Honduras is to act as liaisons between those involved in the Maine Honduras Partnership. We help coordinate the logistics for teams traveling between the United States and Honduras.
One component of the work is to organize medical teams that come and work at the clinic in Pinalejo, Honduras (right next door to where we live). The clinic is run by AIEH, the social services network of the Evangelical and Reformed Church (E&R Church) and currently does not have a doctor serving it. Our goal is to host a medical team every month during 2007 so that we can provide free medicine and continuity of care to the people of Pinalejo and the surrounding mountain villages.
The other set of trips that we help to coordinate are construction teams from Maine that have been invited to be part of projects in E&R churches here in Honduras. These projects are spread throughout the northwest corner of Honduras and include building community daycare centers, pastor’s houses, church expansion projects, school kitchens, and classrooms.
In addition to Mainers traveling to Honduras, a delegation of Honduran Youth will be traveling to the United States this summer to attend part of the General Synod gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Church of Christ followed by a week at Pilgrim Lodge. Accompanying them will be the President and Vice President of the E&R Church.
In all we do, we work to keep in mind the basic goals of our Partnership as outlined through our covenant together:
· Experience the all-inclusive, world-wide nature of the Church;
· Engage in service that builds up the Body of Christ
· Support Christians in another land to share and live out their
One component of the work is to organize medical teams that come and work at the clinic in Pinalejo, Honduras (right next door to where we live). The clinic is run by AIEH, the social services network of the Evangelical and Reformed Church (E&R Church) and currently does not have a doctor serving it. Our goal is to host a medical team every month during 2007 so that we can provide free medicine and continuity of care to the people of Pinalejo and the surrounding mountain villages.
The other set of trips that we help to coordinate are construction teams from Maine that have been invited to be part of projects in E&R churches here in Honduras. These projects are spread throughout the northwest corner of Honduras and include building community daycare centers, pastor’s houses, church expansion projects, school kitchens, and classrooms.
In addition to Mainers traveling to Honduras, a delegation of Honduran Youth will be traveling to the United States this summer to attend part of the General Synod gathering to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Church of Christ followed by a week at Pilgrim Lodge. Accompanying them will be the President and Vice President of the E&R Church.
In all we do, we work to keep in mind the basic goals of our Partnership as outlined through our covenant together:
· Experience the all-inclusive, world-wide nature of the Church;
· Engage in service that builds up the Body of Christ
· Support Christians in another land to share and live out their
understanding of Christian faithfulness;
· Help the partners deepen their understanding of what each is called to be
· Help the partners deepen their understanding of what each is called to be
and do in their respective settings within the global family;
· Help each to become sensitive to the cultural differences in lifestyle and
· Help each to become sensitive to the cultural differences in lifestyle and
daily life concerns of the other;
· Work together for a just peace locally and in the world at large;
· Engage in exchange visits
· Work together for a just peace locally and in the world at large;
· Engage in exchange visits
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