St. Christopher’s Mission Outreach outside the United States is working with the Diocese of Honduras. For several years, the parishioners of St. Christopher’s have traveled to Honduras to do construction work, begin new churches and assist in social programs.
It is a long-term program and if you have an interest or question, please call the church office and a member of the outreach team will be in touch with you.

Mission outreach: beyond the borders not only of our parish, community, city and state but even our country. St. Christopher’s outreach mission has found a need and a welcoming presence in Honduras whose strong encouragement, interest and blessing we enjoy. We are entering our fifth year of involvement there, and what a blessing this experience has been not only to those of us who have traveled there to work among the churched and unchurched, but also for those on the home front whose prayers and pocketbooks support our ongoing work. We have seen great glorious progress and found that indeed the harvest is plenty and the workers are few. Despite some initial misgiving and skepticism, the faithful of St. Christopher’s and indeed our community have rallied around and made possible our long-term commitment to addressing the multiplicity of needs of the Honduran people.

From the outset we’ve been accomplishing wonderful things benefiting whole communities and many, many families. Among the many blessings of working among the people of Honduras is the surprise element of each trip. We trundle down with our plans all made, and God inevitably surprises us with His Plan! From social projects such as building a chicken coop...a gentle nudge into free enterprise, to various construction projects such as repairing existing church facilities, the adoption of a village and our commitment to assist them in spiritual growth and eventually constructing a church, to women’s workshops and basic health classes through which we provide soap, shampoo, eye glasses, toothpaste and brushes. We’ve visited schools and seen first hand the great need we can fill as a parish by providing basic supplies, pencils, tablets, crayons, scissors, and books! The joy on the faces of village women when they saw our supply of scissors for the crafts projects spurred us on to hold a scissors collection which provided each home in Las Crucitas a pair of scissors a luxury item in this impoverished country.

Along with many other Episcopal congregations we’ve expanded our ministry to include shipping large containers of used items to Honduras. This is a multi-pronged endeavor in that jobs are provided and skills taught as the items are repaired and resold. The resulting revenue generated spills over into all areas of the ongoing ministry. We are especially committed to providing not only financial support but spiritual and emotional support to the ever growing team of lay pastors, now some twenty in number, who bear the responsibility of taking the Good News into the rural villages where clergy and the mission of the church is seldom present. For those who have heeded the call to serve God and His church it is an arduous task filled not only with the responsibility of their flocks, but with their own ongoing educational studies under the tutelage of a priest. Meeting these commitments often involves long bus rides, longer walks, separations from family and personal economic hardship, all the while trying to keep body and soul together on a small stipend.

The adventure continues. Our team has grown to include representatives from several faiths who share with us a desire to be a part of mission work. We learned much about ourselves, our endurance, our hidden talents and our capacity for loving and giving from the depths of our spirits! We have sung, prayed, worshiped and rejoiced with our Honduran friends and we have found it to be an enriching life altering experience. We would like to invite you to be a part of this growing ministry. If you have an interest or would like to know more about this exciting spirit-filled program, please call the church office and a member of the outreach team will be in touch with you.