HONDURAS MEDICAL MISSION
HONDURAS 2025 MEDICAL MISSION TRIP
Reveille’s medical team traveled to Honduras in July 2025. This was a transformative experience serving underresourced communities in rural mountain communities. View this year’s trip blog to learn more about how they served communities in need. Here is a note about the 2025 trip from team leader, Claire Kaugars:
Reveille’s Friends of Barnabas Mountain Medical Team spent July 12-19, 2025, in Honduras. The 11-member team was anchored by Claire Kaugars, Miriam McAtee, and Mary Michael Schweiker. Valerie Fernandez Rivera, a Pace Center leadership student uniquely qualified as an interpreter, accompanied the team. They set up a medical wellness clinic in five remote mountain communities each weekday, and one of those communities was El Capulin, the community which Reveille sponsors. Medical brigades like the Friends of Barnabas team have improved the health of these communities through regular visits, vitamins, deworming medicines, and opportunities to find health concerns that can be referred to other partners in the Honduran health care network. Changes to daily living habits through community education through Friends of Barnabase have also helped.
The dental clinic has expanded services from extractions only to include restorations and cleanings. From a dentist’s perspective, it is wonderful to see people excited about saving teeth and proud to be told they have beautiful teeth. Kids Camp collected funds for soccer balls, which were the highlight of the trip for the communities. Soccer is big in Honduras, and to get a brand new ball is wonderful! Our thanks to the children and parents of Reveille’s Kids Camp. Second to soccer balls in excitement was making paper airplanes with Jim Huddle.
WHAT IS FRIENDS OF BARNABAS?
The Friends of Barnabas Foundation and the Reveille congregation partner to provide medical, dental, vision, and preventive care to impoverished people in the rural mountains of Honduras. This ministry supplies needed medications and health education to the communities they serve. Learn more about how to support Friends of Barnabas.
Community Update
Friends of Barnabas held a Health Fair at the Barnabas House for the women who live in our 30 partner communities. Over 280 women attended, and five women from the health fair are currently receiving follow-up care. Reveille’s support in this community is lifesaving!
