What’s Happening Now
It has been a busy time at Promise Home.
In May, we had a team from the FBC Vincennes Indiana. Brent and Becky Stuckey and Gary and Sherry Memering visited Promise Home. They were visiting in preparation for bringing a team in June 2018.
From the Dallas Texas area in July, we had a team to help us in the children’s area. The team was led by Cecilie Anders and Sarah Colby.
They sorted and organized the clothing in our storage area. Assembled rockers and changing tables for the children’s rooms.
The youth sanded and painted the playscape equipment and assembled equipment for the children.
In September Jim and Sandra Murphy stayed with us for a week. Jim and Sandra are great at repairing things so they stayed busy working on equipment in the Children’s Village area.
Also in September, we had a ministry team from the Heights church in Richardson Texas led by Richard Covington. The Heights Church is planning to send two teams next year to Promise Home.
October was our busiest month. We had a team of fifteen young adults from the city of El Progreso (30 miles South of Promise Home) come to Promise Home to enhance our After School program.
They visited the families within walking distance of Promise Home and signed up 91 children to participate in the enhanced program.
The first day of the new program we had 76 children attend.
New enhanced program will provide school clothes and supplies for the children and help the children financially stay in school. In Honduras only 15% of the children enter the seventh grade. We want to change that.
In the second half of October, we had a team from the Heights church in Richardson Texas. Since it was a large team, they were able to do accomplish a lot.
They brought books and educational aides for our children. They installed two bookshelves in two of our learning center rooms.
They painted and decorated furniture in the arts and crafts room.
This was an adventurous group so they installed razor wire around the perimeter of the fish area.
They also installed a snake guard around the perimeter of the children’s area.
If you would like to help us finance the enhanced After School program at Promise Home, it only takes $37 a month to sponsor a child for this program. The child gets lunch on Thursday and Friday, school supplies and school clothes. The program provides a Christian based education weekly on Thursday and Friday. Twice a year the child will write you a letter to tell something about his/her life here in Honduras. Our children are between 3 to 12 years old. We live in a poor community; your help would be greatly appreciated.
To help, please just drop me an email at bill.hayden@promisehome.org.
Thanks,
Bill Hayden
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