Limestone Presbyterian Church

Fifteen Limestone Church members and friends will travel to Honduras to spend a week working with PC(USA) mission workers there -- offering a medical clinic (we have three doctors in our group), a sewing project and a construction project.

Honduras is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America, with nearly two-thirds of Hondurans living in poverty. Here are ways that you can be a part of this trip.

Please pray for those who will be traveling and serving. See below for a list of participants so you can pray for individual travelers on specific days, starting this Saturday.

Thank you for your contributions of sewing supplies, soccer balls, medical supplies, Spanish children’s books, and money. Our mission team will present a monetary gift to Heifer Project in Honduras for their important work. Consider making a donation. Heifer Project provides farm animals and training so Honduran families can become self-sufficient. You may place your donation for this gift to Heifer Project in the offering plate this morning or you may mail your donation (marked “Heifer Project – Honduras”) to the church by June 5th. Thank you!

Purchase BoGo solar flashlights for Honduras. We sold out of our first shipment and hope the second shipment of lights will arrive in the coming week. See the sign-up in the narthex today or contact the church office at 994-5646 for information on donating lights. We still have deluxe lights (2 for $30) for you to purchase and donate. You may choose to donate both flashlights, or donate one and keep one for your own use at home. Details about the SuperBogo solor flashlights are online along with the "Importance of Light" in developing countries (Poverty and Economic Costs; Environmental Impacts Global Warming; Battery Groundwater Contamination; Deforestation and Top Soil Erosion; Health and Safety Cancer; Accidental Fires; Malaria; and Women Empowerment and Family Security). They make great gifts! Checks should be made out to "Limestone Presbyterian Church". We will take as many as we can in our luggage and we will ship the rest to our partners at Heifer Project in Honduras. Please let us know if you want to keep or donate your second light. These lights also make great gifts. Thank you!

Please pray for the following mission team participants during the days they are traveling:

Saturday, June 7: Please pray for safe travels for the group, and for Frank Lasala, an Emergency Room physician.

Sunday, June 8: Please pray for Jeff Long and Bill Balascio, both from the Hanover Street Presbyterian Church.

Monday, June 9: Please pray for Barbara Hoover, one of our deacons, and her sister, Judy Apostolico.

Tuesday, June 10: Please pray for Lee Ann Connolly, an elder at Limestone, and Lauren Connolly, one of our high school youth who is also one of our deacons.

Wednesday, June 11: Please pray for Carolyn Gillette, one of our co-pastors, and Catherine Gillette, one of our high school youth.

Thursday, June 12: Please pray for Chuck Miller, a pediatrician, and his granddaughter (a graduate student), Dana Clasby.

Friday, June 13: Please pray for Pam Zorn, an ER physician who is Chuck Miller’s daughter, and Pam’s son, Ivan Zorn, a high school student.

Saturday, June 14: Please pray for Andrea Sotomayor of New Castle Presbyterian Church and Justin Greenberg, two grad students in Spanish who just completed their studies at the University of Delaware.

Sunday, June 15: Please pray for the people of Honduras we have met and worked with, and safe travels home.

Photos from Limestone’s 2007 Mission Trip to Honduras

Background Note on Honduras

Honduras is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America, with nearly two-thirds of Hondurans living in poverty. Area: 43,278 sq. mi. (slightly larger than Virginia). Population (2006 est.): 7.3 million. Literacy - 76.2%. Per capita income: $ 894. About 90% of the population is mestizo. There also are small minorities of European, African, Asian, Arab, and indigenous Indian descent. Most Hondurans are Roman Catholic, but Protestant churches are growing in number. The restored Mayan ruins near the Guatemalan border in Copan reflect the great Mayan culture that flourished there for hundreds of years until the early 9th century. Columbus landed at mainland Honduras (Trujillo) in 1502, and named the area "Honduras" (meaning "depths") for the deep water off the coast.

Pastor Carolyn Gillette has led four previous mission trips to Honduras. Carolyn’s hymn, "The Storm Came to Honduras," was used to support the relief efforts of many congregations after Hurricane Mitch; this hymn was on national PBS-TV.

Learn more about Honduras

Presbyterian Church (USA) and Honduras

PCUSA Mission Workers Tim & Gloria Wheeler

Heifer International’s projects in Honduras:
CASM Dairy Cow Project
CDH Community Dairy and Chicken Project
and
Honduran Bee Project to Initiate Honey Production and Commercialization

U.S. Department of State Background Note on Honduras

BBC Country Profile on Honduras

Honduras This Week (English Newspaper)

Limestone’s Honduras Mission Trip

Jesus said,

"I was hungry and you gave me food,

I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink…

³⁷ Truly I tell you, just as you did it to

one of the least of these… ^*

you did it to me.” Matthew 25:35-40

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