Preparing to go

Dear Friends, Family, Neighbors and Benefactors of the Mary Our Queen Mission Trip,

As most of you know, we were scheduled to go on our mission trip to Honduras last July. Unfortunately, the week before we were to leave, the political situation became unstable and it was unsafe for us to travel to Honduras.

We rescheduled for December 28 through January 3. Paul, Tom, Stan and Kathleen will leave a day a head of the group to set up the work projects and buy supplies.

We collaborate with the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal who have lived there since Hurricane Mitch to work with the poorest of the poor. In addition to the Friars who live there all year long, we are bringing Br. Paul, Br Peter and Br. Pascal (who live in a Friary in New York) to help us.

We have 40 people going. Half of the team will be doing work projects around the boys’ orphanage (painting the exterior of their dorms, building

a pavilion for shade, and rebuilding their barbeque pit). The other members will be doing a vacation bible school at a local parish (Reina Maria) in the Comayagua in the morning and then the same program for the boys and girls in an orphanage that we have worked with for the past 3 years.

Please keep us in your prayers as we do our final preparations for the trip.

The Mary Our Queen

Mission Team