It is now autumn in Ontario and that means that the El Hogar team is now planning our next mission trip to El Hogar in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.  El Hogar de Amor y Espernza - the home of love and hope whose mission is to transform and empower abandoned and hopelessly poor children in Honduras by providing a loving home and education.  Our next trip is taking place at the end of April and so our planning and fundraising now begins.  What would a Christmas be without our famous Gingerbread churches?  They will be first available for sale at our St Luke's Christmas Market on November 19.  

We have been baking like crazy.  Making parts for 150 churches and houses.  It takes hours to get to this point, but now we are beginning to construct. We use this time to team build and know that the hours we put into this is for the children in Honduras, so that they may " fulfill their ultimate potential as productive, caring and independent Honduran citizens" which is from the El Hogar mission statement. 

Go to http://www.elhogar.org/ , the official website to see all that is happening there.  The latest academic marks of the children are posted for you to check out and in another week, graduation takes place to mark the end of the school year. 

Stay tuned for some pictures of the graduation and of the progress of our churches.