It is hard to believe it, but we are about to leave on our annual mission trip this week. This year, we are traveling to Choluteca, Honduras to help build a school complex. The school campus will center around one large 80’ x 144’ school building with offices, ten classrooms and a gymnasium. In additional to the central building, the school will have 30 other free-standing classrooms. We are the last of six volunteer groups that will participate in building the campus.
Our group consists of 47 volunteers. Each person had to pay their own way or receive donors to sponsor their trip. We have a core group from Houston, with additional friends and family from Pennsylvania, Atlanta, Tennessee, North Carolina, Denver and Washington.
When putting together our final trip information, I did some research on the composition of our group. I had always known that once people go on a trip, that the majority of them are hooked and go on future trips. This year’s statistics bear that out. Of our 47 missionaries this year, 30 of them are repeat volunteers with 17 attending their first trip. The breakdown is as follows:
First trip – 17 volunteers
Second trip – 4 volunteers
Third trip – 8 volunteers
Fourth trip – 4 volunteers
Fifth trip – 5 volunteers
Sixth trip - 1 volunteer
Seventh trip – 4 volunteers
Eighth trip – 2 volunteers
Ninth trip – 1 volunteer
Eleventh trip - 1 volunteer
Our group leaves on March 10 and will return to the US on March 21st. God willing, we will complete the block construction on the school and complete three or four of the stand alone school buildings during our stay there.
We will do our best to post on a daily basis. Feel free to leave comments for any group members you wish to communicate with and we will do our best to get the message to them. Please keep the group in your prayers as well.
Our team is listed below.
Barbara Battistone
Bobby Battistone
Joshua Bourgeois
Ron Dethlefs
Ed Dewar
Billy Gager
Nathalia Gager
Nicole George
Esther Gottfried
Eric Griffin
Mayra Griffin
Ryan Hambley
Greg Hatch
Rachael Hatch
Linval Henry
Jean Henry
Sara Hernandez
Andrew Hinds
Danielle Hinds
Richard Kay
Robert Mathador
Geneva McCallum
Ezequiel Perez
Robin Pimentel
Samantha Pimentel
Stephen Pimentel
Twyla Luke
Walter Grant
Gricelda Ramia
Eliel Reeves
Maurice Reid
Lovely Samson-Lagazo
Michael Lagazo
Ely Don Lagazo
Renata Santos
Renee Gonzalez
Ernie Schirra Jr.
Neale Shields
Thelma Slater
Danae Spencer
David Spencer Jr.
Dale Spencer
Jacqueline Tavares
Claudell Wilson
Gino Wolff
Ray Wolff Jr.
Roxie Wolff
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