This month Don McLaughlin and Nelson Galarraga held a week long preaching workshop for our male staff members. It was both intensely practical and inspiring. The week ended with each participant giving a short 10 minute talk using the techniques that they had discussed during...
by H. Kendle Yates, M.D. Across the globe there are a number of opportunities to do surgical missions. My wife and I are concerned with people’s physical health, but we are even more concerned with people’s spiritual health. Mission UpReach allows us to address both. Restoring...
Many may wonder why we use the term “brigade” for visiting short term mission teams. Brigade is generally a military term but can also mean “a group of individuals organized for a particular purpose”. When the Waldron family moved there in 2009 they realized that...
The local Church in Barrio Belén has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years. An emphasis of that church has always been quality, acapella singing. While God doesn’t call us to be perfect singers, nor is that a requirement for true worship of him,...
It is always a pleasure to host each visiting mission team and this month we hosted a team from VCOM (Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine) in Spartanburg, SC, a medical school that brings students and preceptors who serve and learn at the same time....
Selvin Monterroso is a native Guatemalan who is married to his wife Duña who is Honduran. He has two bachelor’s degrees in theology. One from the Baxter Institute and the other from the Catholic Seminary in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He also spent three years in Abilene,...
Mission UpReach, Inc. has an 8,000-square foot warehouse and parking area rented that contains classrooms and a basketball court. This building is used every day and most nights during the week because it also serves as a place where the Barrio Belén church meets. The...
In 2015, Donna Waldron traveled to the Los Angeles elementary school for a routine meeting with the director. While conversing with parents and teachers of the school, 6-year-old Edith Fernanda approached Donna and struck up a conversation. Donna invited her to come to the new...
In June 2009, the Waldron family, consisting of Phil and Donna Waldron and their two youngest, teenage children, Harrison and Laura, moved to Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras and began Mission UpReach, which was a mission of the Campus View Church of Christ in Athens,...
As we have said many times, we strive to be Jesus to those around us in an overall effort toward planting self-replicating congregations, with the goal of bringing many into the Kingdom. Everything we do as a mission contributes to that goal. One of the...