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Eleven local church members leave for Honduras Thursday, to continue an on-going partnership with three-churches, in that Central American republic. Word Of Life Gospel Ministries Pastor Keith Jiles says a local group travels there three to four times a year to help with anything from ministry to building homes.
“We pick Honduras because of a minister I was attending fellowship with years ago…he was a missionary down there,” he says. “Their biggest issue there seems to be that there doesn’t appear to be much of a middle class – you either have or you have not.”
Jiles says local groups have helped build 12x16 homes… “No running water or anything like that.”
They also contribute with getting food to the residents. “We get food to a lot of people who actually live in dump sites,” he says. “There’s probably 500 people living in and around these dumps who are trying to make a living.”
Jiles says the eight-day trip is sponsored through individual fund-raising and the group’s Faith Outreach Pprogram—which also benefits needs locally.
The pastor says a group is likely to return to Honduras in spring of 2012 and encourages other area churches or church members interested, to contact Word Of Life Gospel Ministries to participate.