honduras trip

Cory & Vicky Brown

Honduras, specifically La Esperanza, is one of our favorite places to be. It's where some of our dear friends live, home to beautiful scenery and a place we can rest in the fact that we are exactly where we need to be. We need to be there — perhaps that is a strange thing to say - but we need to see our friends every year (maybe someday more often!). We need to connect with them, we need to see that they are okay, ask them how they are doing, hear them ask us about our lives, too. We love to remind them and to be reminded that God is with us and has not forgotten us. Honduras is a thin place for us — a place where heaven and earth are not far apart, a place for us to see the face of God and a chance to serve with our whole being. It is emotional, dirty, hard, life-giving, meaningful, deeply spiritual work. In a place where our efforts seem to range from big to small, we are reminded that everything we do matters and that the people of God are everywhere.

Kyle Endress

We look forward to this trip every year, and we’re pretty sure we always end up benefiting more than the folks we go to serve. Granted, a family in need has a sturdy, new home to call their own by the end of the week, and that’s a huge deal when stable housing is one of your major daily concerns. But we get the privilege of meeting and working alongside the people of the “Ocho de Octubre” community, and they are some of the most amazing embodiments of perseverance, hope, and the Imago Dei that we’ve encountered. We carry their stories with us throughout our time apart, and getting to reconnect with them during our annual visit is like sunshine on our hearts.

Camilla Pietreniak

Hello! I am Camilla Pietreniak and I am looking forward to my 1st trip to Honduras. I thoroughly enjoy hearing from my friends at Imago about the relationships they have formed with this beautiful community & look forward to serving in any capacity I can. So grateful for this opportunity!

STEVE & LESLIE HARRIS

Les and I have been going to Honduras each year since 2000, interrupted by covid for a couple years. Progress has been made yet the needs continue. Through the years the Imago team has constructed many houses for poverty-stricken families. Houses that will last for generations.

We have sponsored children, allowing them to get an education and at least making it even possible for them to break out of generational poverty.

We have made abiding friendships with many of the residents in spite of the distance and language barriers. These friends aren’t our “project;” they are our brothers and sisters whom we love.

It’s the houses, the children, the friendships that continue to reassure these families that we have not—that the U.S. church has not—forgotten them.

In enriching their lives even in the smallest way fills our own hearts with joy.

It’s our responsibility to serve the poor and simultaneously our privilege to do so.

Rich Kruiswyk

I am very much looking forward to this trip, my first trip to Honduras to serve with the Imago Dei team and Mercy International. I hope to meet new friends and brothers and sisters in Christ, share our lives, and help with their burdens in any way I can while I'm there. I'm excited to see their beautiful country, get a small taste of their culture, and see God at work among their people.

Susan Scott

In 2015 Rick and I participated in this trip and were profoundly impacted by the experience. I am excited to return and see the progress that has happened since 2015, see how the little ones in my photos have grown and to share this experience with Lydia. As a family we are intentional in recognizing our privilege,  acknowledging the humanity in everyone, bearing witness to the injustice of poverty, actively working to help the marginalized while standing in a posture of profound gratitude.  We know we do these things imperfectly - but we try.

Lydia Scott

My parents have talked about their experience in Honduras. It sounds like it will be a mix of fun and hard work. I am looking forward to this experience and learning new things.

Ainzley brown

I went on the Honduras trip for the first time last year after hearing about it from my parents for quite a while. More than anything, I really liked the people there and am excited to go meet them again as well as try to help out the community. On the trip, I hope to improve my relationships with people I already know, meet some new people, practice my Spanish, and try to improve the lives of others in any way possible.