Christmas eCard 2016

PROMISE HOME CHRISTMAS eCARD

We are blessed that God sent these 10 precious little ones to us to love & care for in our Resident Care Ministry! Rejoice with us during this Christmas Season for these children, the 50+ children in our After School Program and the wonderful staff at our Children’s Village in El Portillo Honduras.

Christmas Greeting from the Fowlers

Marcus, Dakota & Lisa Fowler

Marcus, Dakota & Lisa Fowler

[Marcus & Lisa Fowler serve as our Missionaries on our campus in El Portillo. Marcus is our Community Ministries Director & lisa is our Children’s Division Director.]

We arrived at the San Pedro Sula Airport with three duffel bags and a couple of other items on November 1st, 2016. Kirk and Bill both had shared that we would be hitting the ground running. They weren’t kidding! Since then, we’ve had a few hours off each day, but we are leading, assisting, and involved in community ministry constantly.

The little ones here in Promise Home are certainly enjoying life. When we walk into their casita each morning as a family, they greet us with all the excitement, kicks and squeals that you would expect from kids under three. We have family devotions, sing a song, and pray together. It never gets old and there’s some new challenge to be faced each morning. Of course, there is a lot of play time and interaction. Presently, we’re helping them learn to use Dakota as a climbing gym…preferably the majority of them at the same time.

El Portillo believes in going to church. Promise Home Church gives them full opportunity to exercise their faith. We have services for adults all week and a special service for the children on Sunday morning. We have recently started a Discipleship Class and Leadership Training on Wednesday nights. We are working on developing a core group to evangelize other communities. Eventually, God permitting, we’ll start another church in another unreached area.

El Portillo School is enjoying our partnership a couple of days each week. We are involved with an after school program that is a lot of fun. The three classes remind me of the old saying: come on in and have some fun…be careful or you may learn something.

Today (December 3rd) is graduation day for the school. We’ll be celebrating with the community and encouraging the students and their parents to continue the educational process. For some of them, this will be the pinnacle of their academic career. Hopefully, we’ll be able to change the mindset regarding the priority of education as our time here continues.

The future here at Promise Home and El Portillo is bright. We’re not just talking about the intensity of the Honduran sun. “Optimism” is the operational phrase we experience each day. “Cooperative” is a great way to describe the community attitude. There is no shortage of opportunity to continue living out the message that we constantly live and share: Honor God. Work Hard. Live Holy.

The Fowler family here at Promise Home wish you a very Merry Christmas. May God bless each of our families and all of our diligence in serving Him together this coming year.

[Marcus & Lisa Fowler serve as our Missionaries on our campus in El Portillo. Marcus is our Community Ministries Director & lisa is our Children’s Division Director.]

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM ALL OF US AT PROMISE HOME!

We have a lot to be thankful for this year! We thank the Lord for all he has done to bring Promise Home to where it is today. We are blessed to have 10 precious children ages 2 months to 2-1/2 years in in our daily care and more than 50 children from the El Portillo area in our After School Program every week. Watch for more information in the days to come for updates on our ministry to the children of Honduras.

Julio Sanchez, Fish Business Manager

Julio_Fish Program

Promise Home’s Fish Business Manager: Julio Sanchez

Pictured to the left above is Julio Sanchez with his daughter Sonnie. Julio is the manager of Promise Home’s self-sustaining funding Tilapia Fish business. Also pictured (top right) are some of the 41 fish ponds and (bottom right) a view inside the fish processing plant on the Promise Home campus in Honduras. Promise Home currently has more than 600,000 Tilapia in various stages of development and is projecting a net profit this year from the fish business. Ultimately, income from the fish business and other self-sustaining funding programs will underwrite the financial needs of Promise Home’s Ministries. You can learn more about our self-sustaining funding programs here on our website. Please pray for Julio, his family and all the other staff in Honduras as they work diligently to make our self-sustaining projects profitable.

As you may well imaging, it will take some time for our self-sustaining funding programs to provide for the financial needs of Promise Home. As we are implementing the projects that have the capacity to make Promise Home totally self-supporting in the future there is opportunity for you to help today. We are moving closer every day to welcoming abused, abandoned and neglected children for residential care at the Promise Home Children’s Village and extending our reach into the El Portillo community with pre-school and after school programs. Will you help Promise Home minister to these precious children today with a one time or month gift? Please visit our Donate page to make a gift today.

Bill Hayden, Director of Operation & Founder

Bill Hayden

God gave Bill the vision for Promise Home while he was serving on a medical mission trip in Nicaragua in 2006. Since then he has worked tirelessly to lead the ministry to where it is today. As you can imagine, there have been many challenges, frustrations as well as tremendous blessings along the way. Through it all Bill has kept his eyes on Jesus and is driven by the overwhelming needs of children in Honduras. Today the vision is becoming a reality as the first children begin arriving at the orphanage in March. Bill is in Honduras now (where he spends a significant amount of his time these days) with a mission team working to finishing the required construction and other projects to insure the campus will be ready for the children. Please pray for Bill as he leads the way every day to move Promise Home closer to engaging its Mission.

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Promise Home Update by Bill Hayden

We thank The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson Texas for their generous support of Promise Home and for producing this video. Please click the play button to see a brief update on where Promise Home is today. Great progress is being made on the Promise Home Campus in El Portillo Honduras! We are just weeks away from welcoming our first children to our Orphanage! Please pray for us as we complete the work on the Children’s Village and consider making a gift to support the ministries of Promise Home.