OVERVIEW
OF OUR SHORT TERM MISSION
 New Sudbury Pentecostal Church Missions
Team from Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, arrived in Honduras
March /2005. Joined by people representing 5 PAOC
churches in Northern Ontario, we have been touched
and blessed by the warm reception of the people here,
especially the children. Day after day, our eyes
have been opened to the many needs around us.
Pastor Alvin and Nellie Anderson have a broad vision and are striving
to meet the needs of the local people. Their hearts are pure gold.
They see a need and do whatever they can to meet it. Whether it
be within their own congregation, at one of the two feeding centers
located in the mountains, the Day Care Centers set up to educate
the preschoolers and show them God’s love, to the juvenile
detention centers, prisons and orphanages, or on the streets of
Tegucigalpa, they have outreach ministries wherever needed. The
list keeps growing. The needs are great.
We as a team have been able to supply
paint and supplies for the inside and out of Feeding
Center number one, money to renovate the Trades School
so that young women can get off the streets and learn
how to make a decent living rather than prostituting
themselves, stealing or living hand to mouth digging
through the garbage.
We have supplied 108 pairs of black
shoes for the children so that they can go to school.
The cost to buy them here is unattainable for most.
Without them there would be no schooling as it is
part of the uniform. No shoes, no schooling. The
children would be without hope of education, a chance
to make their lives better. We have seen the difference
this ministry is making in the lives of the people.
There is not one child that Pastor Alvin misses when he goes to
visit the various centers. Even though he may be talking to someone
else, a child will come up and snuggle in, He will either take
them up in his arms or place his hand on their heads and impart
to them blessing. We now have had the privilege of doing the same.
We pour out the love of Christ as we minister, play games, do crafts,
sing songs, do skits, help with physical labor or just sit and
hold a child, we are making a difference.
We have painted, cleaned and reached
out to many areas sharing the love of Christ wherever
we can. Even going through gang territory and having
gang members approach us, we have not been intimidated.
We have expressed God’s love. Some hard hearts
we see softening. We have experienced people giving
their hearts to the Lord and have had many divine
appointments too numerous to mention here.
Our Granddaughter, Sarah, did a project
in her grade six class, Alexandria Public School
in St. Catherine’s Ontario. She had them fill
shoe boxes with items we could give away to the children
while we were here in Honduras. She called the project, “Honduras
Hope” How fitting, we can make an effort to
do whatever we can to bring hope to the needy people
of Honduras. There is so much that we can do. On
our own, we cannot accomplish a whole lot. But collectively
our hands joined together, we can accomplish much
for God’s Kingdom purposes. You may not have
much to give, or you may have a lot. The fact is,
maybe you could just do something.
We have many pictures posted on mehonduras.org
web site.
Randy and Judy Lundrigan
Team Leaders
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You’re jointing a team of other
believers that you don’t know very well. You
feel insignificant and wonder what you have to offer
the group.
When you look into the big brown eyes of a Honduran child that
is looking up to you for encouragement and love, all your nervousness,
reservations, and language barrier seem to fall away. All you can
think about is the child.
The children. Oh . . . The children. They live
on a mountain range with bumpy, narrow, dirty,
steep hills in tiny one or two room
wooden huts with steel roofs. As you drive by they are hanging
out their windows, or standing on the street. You see no or little
toys. Some are better dressed than others but nothing according
to our standards.
Manos Extendidas, headed up by a lovely
dedicated couple, Alvin and Nellie Anderson, along
with a great team of workers, work tiredly to feed,
care and share the gospel with these precious souls
and their parents.
We have painted, prayed for, ministered to, done public speaking,
feed the children, spent time just loving up on the people. What
a privilege. Hallelujah!
Nancy Vernon
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Hola… Oh My Goodness, we have
been here for just over a week and wow…. My
life has changed already!!! When I go back to Canada
I will no longer be the same. The change that I have
experienced has come from the different things that
we have confronted here in Honduras! We started out
our adventure going to an orphanage than to a detention
center for boys playing and experiencing life in
Honduras. Than we went on to a girls detention center,
and 2 feeding centers up in the hills, which was
amazing. Manos Extentidas- Hands Extendid has so
many different branches here in Honduras and now
since we have been here were apart of this team!
At the beginning of this long journey I didn’t
want to come, now I don’t want to leave! If
I wasn’t in high school I would be living here… we
have had some interesting times here in Honduras
and its going to be hard to leave because of the
time we have had! I pray that this ministry builds
and continues to grow in the coming years that they
reach all generations!
God Bless Manos Extendidos and the helpers in this
ministry, your doing a great job and it takes
a lot of courage to do what you
are doing.
Jessie Peregrine
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Well, I’m not normally a kid
person but it’s been a real experience to be
at the day care centres and play with the children.
Beautifull children, big brown eyes and bright smiles.
I put on the clown outfit one day. They were afraid
of me at first, but I had a horn under my arm and
would take there hand and toot the horn. It wasn’t
long before I had a whole troop of children following
me. They love to ride on my shoulders and just sit
on your lap. This is a land of extremes on one hand
we have poverty and the other wealth side by side,
it cries out with possibility and opportunity for
the Gospel message to take hold. I’m still
trying to assess what God is saying to me here. I
have come to tears a couple of times.
Ed Moran
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