10 of us packed up and headed to Honduras to continue the partnership between The Fields Church and a church in San Jeronimo, Honduras called The 1814 Project. You can read all about it here. Exactly 1814 miles away is a small town of 4,000 people who desperately need someone to come along side of them and help transform their [...]

For the next eight days I will be Honduras as part of the The 1814 Project. The 1814 Project is a partnership between a local church in San Jeronimo, Honduras where we are working to bring spiritual, educational, and economical transformation. While I just don’t want to share what I am doing, I want to also share about some other [...]

A team from The Fields Church is in Honduras this week. It is a continueing relationship we have with a community there, called San Jeronimo; called The 1814 Project. The team has been restoring the bathrooms at their elementary school. Fixing toilets, getting them operational again. Repairing the bathroom roof. Fixing playground equipment. Also, we are helping one of their [...]

Today was our last day in San Jeronimo. We spent the day in the elementary school, doing book of hope distribution, building soccer goals and painting desk. Then in the evening we showed the Honduras/El Salvador soccer game on a projector screen in a park, were over 500 showed up.

Writing this from my phone, because I’m too wiped to get out my iBook. We spent the entire day one the Village of Ireland. It’s right outside of San Jeronimo. It’s a community of 600 displaced people from Tegucigalpa, due to the result oh Hurricane Mitch. They live in small cinder block houses with no electricity or running water. We [...]

We kicked off the day with teaching on leadership at the local church, while another group taught the kids. Then at night, we kicked off the Project Hope with a huge celebration. The Fields Church and Travis were given the key to the city of San Jeronimo.

Today was our first day in San Jeronimo. We kicked it off with a market day. San Jeronimo is 20 minutes from any business, so we helped them realize that they could buy and sell goods right there in their community. Fireworks in San Jeronimo from Evan Courtney on Vimeo.

Long day of travel, starting out driving to ChicagoThursday night, and arriving to our hotel in Comayagua, Honduras on Friday afternoon. I’m running on fumes. And I got high/sick from the fumes from the 2 hours van ride from the capital city Tegucigalpa to Comayagua. The1814Project

First Assembly is adopting a small town for the next 3 years in Honduras called San Jeronimo. I’ve blogged about it here. and here. We just aren’t doing a one stop missions trip. But we are partnering with the local church. Our church won’t get credit, they will. Here is what the next three years will look like. Sending a medical team from [...]