09.19.2011
March Mission Information
09.19.2011
2012 Applications now being accepted.
09.19.2011
Our Education Ministry by Carolyn Cashman
09.19.2011
March Mission Info
In 2012, we are once again sending two mission groups to Honduras. The March Mission is held during Spring Break to encourage our youth leaders to participate.
The focus of the “Satellite Mission” is education, evangelization and construction.
- This mission is limited to 25 missionaries who stay at the Casa Alamania, a small hotel located on the beach in Trujillo.
- The March missionary team consists of:
- 1 or 2 physicians/surgeons who want to teach and work with local medical professionals
- teachers and teens for the school team
- sewing instructors
- construction workers
- an evangelization team consisting of a priest, team leader, and teens with CYM leadership experience.
- This mission does not provide medical care to the villages, however we do provide follow-up for our chronic patients at the local clinics.
- Missionaries are selected based on their experience and skills related to the needs of the mission.
- It is possible to participate in both the March and June mission.
09.19.2011
2012 Applications now being accepted.
Join us as we begin our 16th year of service to the poor in the Trujillo area of Honduras!
March Trip:
- Twenty to twenty-five missionaries are needed including:
1 to 2 physicians/surgeons willing to teach and work alongside Honduran physicians; skilled construction workers; 4 to 8 teens with a desire to work with Honduran teens in our Youth Ministry Program; teachers, sewing instructor, priest, and bilingual evangelism leader.
- The cost for each missionary is $1,510. This includes airfare, local transportation, lodging, and meals.
June Trip:
- Ninety-five missionaries are needed including: physicians, surgeons, anesthesiologists, dentists, eye doctors, nurses, scrub techs, pharmacists, audiologist, construction workers, teachers, translators, and support positions.
- There are positions for only 10 high school students. Students must be 16 by the mission date and be accompanied on the mission by a parent. High school applications are due by December 19, 2011, and must include a letter to Monsignor Malone explaining why you should be chosen to serve as a missionary.
- The cost for each missionary is $1,640. This includes airfare, local transportation, lodging, and meals.
Application/Information Booklets are available after September 18, 2011 in the church vestibule, church office, and online.
The first general missionary meeting is November 14, 2011 at 6:30 pm in the Ministries Building, 3rd floor Room C.
Please prayerfully consider joining us.
09.19.2011
Our Education Ministry
Education has always been one of the focuses of Christ the King’s Honduras Mission.
Early on it was our involvement in the Honduras schools, our efforts to promote personal and oral hygiene, and the sharing of goals, hopes and dreams with all those we met. We can’t forget our own education in all of this -- All that we learn about the Hondurans, ourselves, the new jobs that we take on, the universality of the Catholic Church and of the human spirit, the innate need that all of us have to be able to give something of ourselves, no matter how small.
As the Mission has aged we’ve added many more facets to its education role. Christ the King School is involved in a multitude of ways, teens accompany us and serve outstandingly in very challenging conditions. In Honduras, the First Aid Ladies serve their villages using the knowledge and supplies given them in our workshops. The Handyman program gives new skills to those interested in improving their homes and villages. The crowning effort is the Chronic Medicine program to help promote year-round treatment for diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.
All those areas listed above refer to the amorphous “us” and “them.” There are also plenty of ways that education is individual. For several years, pharmacy students from UAMS have joined our Pharmacy team. They give lots of hours of service and get a special insight into medicine in another place. Dental students have gotten more hands-on experience in a week than they might get in a year at school. They need that year at school to understand “what” to do, but now they understand the “how” also.
My job this year was in the Dental Clinic. Besides, watching three talented dental students give their all, I watched two dentists, one Honduran and one US, share their caring, process and “tricks-of-the-trade” with those students.
This year, for the first time, two young women from the village of Los Leones cleaned dental instruments in the Dental Clinic. Julio, the delegado of Los Leones, was asked to find someone to do that job so that the dentists and students could concentrate on anesthetic and extractions. These women were interested in health careers and willing to scrub and dip and dunk and rinse instruments for more than three hours each day. Their work station was blue basins filled with bleach, vinegar solutions and water. As they were in the same room where teeth were being pulled, they quickly recognized when a
patient needed a calm word, helping hand or gentle smile. Their service was wonderful. I have to believe that their education was memorable, too. Just one more way that this mission touches lives.
Carolyn Cashman
09.19.2011
Mission Reflections by Clare Selig
Looking back on this mission there are so many memories I hold close to my heart and feel so blessed to have experienced. What an amazing opportunity to share with my Dad. For 2 weeks after the mission I looked at my pictures every night. The smiling big brown-eyed, innocent children brought a smile to my face and serve as a constant reminder of all God’s great gifts.
The simplicity of their lives taught me so much about God’s blessings and love. The gratitude the Honduran people had for us to simply check their child’s hearing and give them a tiny sticker put many things I take for granted into perspective. I was reminder of God’s plan throughout the mission, especially when a man from Tennessee called the hotel to speak to someone from the hearing team. He had found our mission on-line and wanted to know if it was possible to help a young girl with a profound hearing loss. We worked together and the girl and her family arrived at the hospital first thing Friday morning to be examined. She received 2 hearing aids. What a life-changing experience to see the smile on her face the first time she heard her family’s voice and laughter! Her tears of joy and gorgeous smile were a true gift from God.
I enjoyed getting to know the other missionaries and to hear how the mission was impacting their lives as well. I will cherish this trip and the many people whose lives were touched by our mission. I have begun praying for next year’s mission and the many Hondurans who need our prayers so greatly. Thank you to all the team members and missionaries who made this mission so enjoyable for me.
Clare Selig
09.19.2011
A Message from the Honduras Director
In 1996, when our mission founders first investigated the possibility of a parish mission to Honduras, they were moved by the profound poverty of the people of Trujillo and the surrounding villages. These beautiful people continue to remind us of the gospels and beatitudes that call all of us to help those in need. You who contribute to our mission effort and answer this call are true missionaries, for without your support our mission would not exist.
Each year our mission grows in both its scope and its impact on the people. In 2010 we enlarged our efforts to include a smaller March mission that allowed us to double the impact of our construction and school teams and establish a Youth Ministry in Trujillo. Because of this success we are planning another March mission in 2011. However, as our mission grows our mission expenses grow. Our appeal goal for 2011 is once again $75,000. This amount allows us to budget for our medical, educational, evangelical, and construction expenses for the coming year. Our budget covers all the basic expenses such as operating costs, supplies, shipping two containers, maintaining our schools and churches, and purchasing medications - our largest line item.
However, our budget does not allow us to do larger projects such as building and renovating schools and churches. These projects have always relied on special donations earmarked for a specific purpose. Renovations to the school in Los Leones, a 2009-2010 project, were almost entirely funded by donations specified for that purpose.
Some examples of “special projects” for future missions include:
- purchase 10 to 15 sewing machines over the next 3 years so that sewing classes use the same machine to facilitate repair and replacement parts. (estimated cost - $3500)
- Build a 4- room addition to the school in Los Leones (estimated cost - $6,500)
- Assist Francisco Morazon High School develop vocational programs in welding, electricity and carpentry. (a 5- year project)
- Build a church in the village of Marañones
These and other projects are not funded by our appeal goal and rely on donations to special projects to exist.
I feel privileged to lead this mission effort for Christ the King Parish. I am continually amazed and touched by your generosity and by the sacrifices of the 90+ missionaries who travel so far to serve the poorest of the poor. The need is great and my prayer is that our mission continues to do God’s work in Honduras.
God bless you and your families.
Sandee Haslauer, Mission Director
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