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Help for Honduras |
In the News! Part 3 What follows is a column in the Times Mail newspaper from Bedford, Indiana. Everybody's Talkin': Heading back to help in Honduras By Krystal Shetler kshetler@tmnews.com January 22, 2010 Dan Kerr, Steve Gilstrap, Warren Crawford, Darrin Chastain and Allen Burris are leaving Sunday for Honduras. The team will spend almost a week in the poverty-stricken country, as they've raised enough money to build five houses for the people there. In a column Burris wrote in November, he said, "Last summer 16 of us from the church where I work left our homes and went to Honduras, and 16 of us came back as changed people. We saw poverty unlike anything we had seen before. We built structures that would not pass here for lawn mower sheds and then watched people weep as they received them not simply as houses but as homes." Along with building houses, the team will help with food distribution at the landfill. Burris said the people who live there rummage through the rubbish looking for food to eat and items they can sell. Corn grown through the Bryantsville Hunger Relief Project was shipped to Honduras from Lawrence County in October, and the team is hoping to see some of the people who received it. Burris, senior pastor at the Mitchell Church of Christ, worked with the church to create the Help for Honduras organization, which partners with other Christian ministries in the area to help the Honduran people. By working with the Bryantsville Hunger Relief Project, they've been able to provide high lysine corn to the hungry people in the country. They also are partnering with Capstone Ministries, the parent organization of the ReGeneration Store in Mitchell, to ship excess clothing, toys, household goods and more to the people who need it in Honduras. Here's wishing these men the best of luck on their trip |