Honduras Medical Mission

HONDURAS MEDICAL MISSION

HONDURAS 2024 MEDICAL MISSION TRIP

Reveille will take a medical team to Honduras, July 13-20, 2024. This is a transformative experience serving underresourced communities in rural mountain communities. Team members must be at least 18 years old and fully COVID vaccinated and boosted. Team leaders, Chris Baker and Claire Kaugars, are actively seeking Spanish-speaking medical and non-medical volunteers. If you are interested in joining the 2024 trip, please email Chris Baker or Claire Kaugars.

An information session about the summer 2024 trip will be held on February 11, 9:45-10:45 am, in the welcome center. Anyone interested in joining the summer trip is encouraged to attend.

For more information about the Friends of Barnabas medical mission, visit www.fobf.org. View last year’s trip blog to learn more about how they served communities in need.

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

Reveille UMC’s partner community, Aguas de la Reina, completed the Healthy Communities education and graduated from Friends of Barnabas’ programs! Reveille UMC’s new partner community will be El Capulin, who just joined our Healthy Communities program. If everything goes as planned, El Capulin will be one of the communities Reveille UMC’s Mountain Medical Team visits the summer of 2024.

The Trinity UMC Mountain Medical Team visited your partner community, El Capulin, the week of January 22, 2024. Below is the blog from their clinic day in El Capulin:

Today Team Trinity traveled to a new village in the FOB Healthy Communities Program called El Capulin. Approximately 40 families were seen, and there were so many adorable babies and young children all excited for us to be there. Initial impressions of the community were that they seemed very proactive and were explicit with their health concerns in order to maximize their time with the team and learn as much as they could from us to improve their health and well-being. Many of them had prior access to specialty care which was a pleasant surprise.

Upon reflecting on the day, the team all expressed how grateful the community members were for our presence there. While we made a great impact, we learned that only half of the community was actually able to travel to meet with us because of geographical limitations. This is because a significant portion of the community lives high up in the mountains, and access to it is limited to motorbikes or by foot, and takes a long time to get to utilizing those modes of transportation. These conditions also make getting our team and supplies to them very difficult. We are looking into ways we can access the rest of the community in the near future so they can receive care as well.

Several team members gave their crosses today. Dr. Mark gave his to a young 26-year-old man with severe motor cerebral palsy who radiated such kindness, intelligence, gratitude, and a desire to learn. Linda gave her cross to a woman who has suffered tragedy in her family and struggles with chronic respiratory issues herself, but who showed great resilience and strength. Hannah gave her cross to a woman who was a caretaker for three young children and was struggling to take care of herself physically and mentally, putting the needs of the children consistently before her own. We were all touched by the contagious good spirit of the El Capulin community. They are a wonderful addition to the Healthy Communities Program, and we are looking forward to seeing their progressive development with our partnership in the years to come.