Plans continue to unfold for the 2009 Honduras Mission trip, the third church sponsored trip to Belfate, Honduras and the Cornerstone Foundation mission at Hospital Loma de Luz. The 7-member team from Jacksonville Presbyterian is now focusing on sending out letters to friends and family seeking prayer support and financial assistance for several needs at the hospital, the church that John and Penny Alden have planted in nearby Margurita and a local bilingual school.

Like the last two years, the JPC mission team will be taking their personal luggage as a carry-on and then checking two bags filled with a host of needed medical and dental supplies and equipment as well as baby and children’s clothing. Some specific needs are:
cast cutting blades (there is no shortage of broken bones on Honduras’s north coast), scissors and gauze for wound care, scrubs, a C-arm fluoroscope machine, a whole variety of over-the-counter children’s meds, prenatal vitamins, wet wipes, infant (including preemie) and children’s clothing up to size 5, and boxes of toothpaste and tooth brushes (dental care is a great need). If you would like to donate any of these items, you may drop them off with Richard Evans at the church administrative offices or give them to any of the team members: Richard, Rick and Amber Shields, Tom and Lori Bell, Mike and Kandee McClain. If you are not sure what to get, we have some medical people who can get meds at cost if you would rather donate funds to the mission trip.

As always, you prayer support is needed and appreciated. Specifically, we would ask that you pray for a lessening of the current political tensions in Honduras.

With Every Blessing-2009 Honduras Mission Team