Mission Teams

Honduras

Below are a few details about mission teams to Honduras.  In order to schedule a team, a designated team coordinator must contact David Sperow to ensure the preferred dates are available.  Upon confirmation that the dates are available, an information packet will be provided to the coordinator.

This packet has the mission trip manual, information sheet for coordinators, application and release, and the security briefing/release.  The coordinator is the team leader and will be responsible for communicating with La Cima staff as the planning process and trip organizaion proceed.

• The mission trip fee varies from year to year to reflect the rate changes with hotels, vehicle rentals, fuel, etc.  This fee for a one week (seven night) mainland mission trip has historically been between USD 1000 and USD 1150.  The historical fee for a Roatan island mission trip has been between USD 1250 and  USD 1350. This does NOT include airfare.  The fee does include lodging, three meals per day, in-country transportation, short-term emergency medical/air ambulance insurance, driver/interpreter, national exit  and airport taxes. Once you have arranged air travel to and from Honduras, the only other financial concern you will have is souvenir, snack, spending money, and money for alcoholic beverages.

• Teams are responsible for providing all supplies and materials necessary to complete their mission objectives.  La Cima DOES NOT provide these items.  La Cima is responsible for logistics and planning of “in-country” aspects of a mission trip.  When all is considered, this may result in total trip expenses being greater than the Team Fee+Airfare, but the final expense will be determined by the team coordinator and not La Cima.

• Typically a team will leave the hotel each day and will work with our mission partners providing medical or dental care in the form of day clinics at locations the partners select.  On Roatan Island, we work in a fixed clinic location in the community of Los Fuertes near French Harbor under the auspices of Clinica Esperanza which is located in Sandy Bay.

• The teams will need to transport everything necessary to work each day and all the materials will need to be transported back to the hotel every afternoon.

• Lodging in San Pedro Sula and the island of Roatan is at a modern hotel or resort.

• Mainland teams must have a minimum of ten (10) and a maximum of eighteen (18) members.  Special exceptions can be made with prior approval of La Cima.

• Roatan teams must have a minimum of ten (10) and a maximum of fourteen (14) members.  Special exceptions can be made with prior approval of La Cima.

• Most of the time, rooms are double beds with double occupancy.  If there is an odd number of people on a team, it may be necessary for a rollaway bed to be used in one room.  This is done in an effort to keep the trip fees as low as possible.

• Unmarried couples may not share a room.

• Breakfast is at the hotel or a local restaurant.  Lunches will be provided at the clinic site or will be fast food.  Evening meals will be in local restaurants.

Safety

“Is it safe to go on a mission trip?”

NO!

Going with God is NEVER safe.  Read “Dangerous Faith” to the right before proceeding.

That said, since God gave us brains, we use them.

Safety concerns are at the forefront of many people’s minds when considering a misison trip to the third world.  We have taken every precaution to reduce risk as much as possible for our teams.

No matter what we do, however, all risk cannot be removed.  There are certain dangers inherent to international travel, particularly travel by United States citizens.  In Honduras, there is a significant amount of gang related crime and violence.  Nearly all of our partners in Honduras have been affected personally by acts of violence.

The perpetrators of these acts are precisely the reason we are working.  Those involved in crime and violence need to hear our message the most.  The answer to these problems is to spread the love of Jesus Christ.  There are no secular answers to societal problems found in the world today.  Once the true answer, of Jesus, is presented and accepted, positive change will occur.

It is dangerous to go where God is working.  It is far more dangerous, however, not to go if He has called you.  It is a matter of determining through prayer and seeking whether or not God has called you to participate in missions on foreign shores.  If He has, then the answer is:  GO!  If He has not, do whatever it is He has asked you to do instead.  It is that simple.  He did not promise to remove the risks when serving Him, He did promise to be with us wherever He sents us.  “If God is for us, who can be against us?”

There will be a security briefing form sent to every team member prior to a mission trip.  It is vital that everyone be aware of what potential safety concerns exist before making the decision to participate on a mission team.