Current Events

By Phil Waldron, CEO and Co-founder MUR On March 25, 2022, CNN carried the headline, “Biden says Western leaders discussed food shortages, which he says will be ‘real’.” The reason that President Biden believes this to be true is due to the sanctions that are currently...

30 March, 2022 /

By Phil Waldron   In the United States we just celebrated Labor Day. Here in Honduras, we celebrate Labor Day on May 1st. Regardless of which day in the year that your country celebrates it, the idea of honoring the blue collar, agriculture and service industry workers...

11 October, 2021 /

By Phil Waldron   The most heart wrenching pictures I’ve seen in regard to the border crisis are photos of children. Although we have noted the effects of families left behind as parents make the trek to the United States, we haven’t discussed what happens when children...

06 August, 2021 /

  By Phil Waldron, CEO Mission UpReach [caption id="attachment_205058" align="alignleft" width="457"] Photo cred: Orlando Estrada, AFP[/caption] On June 10th, 2021 the NY Post published an article saying this:  “The president of Guatemala says he places blame for the US’ border crisis on President Biden and the Democrats’ “lukewarm” rhetoric...

06 July, 2021 /

By Phil Waldron Kay C James, founder and President of The Gloucester Institute, a leadership training center for young African Americans, wrote the following on March 17th, 2021: “Recent open-borders immigration policy and talk of potential amnesty has predictably resulted in a dramatic rise in unaccompanied children...

06 April, 2021 /

As we began cancelling groups for 2020, our sadness mounted, and we comforted ourselves with believing that 2021 would see us restored to normalcy.  It appears that was just a dream, and now we are faced with the harsh reality that 2021 will likely be...

03 March, 2021 /

By Phil Waldron [caption id="attachment_204731" align="alignleft" width="423"] Photo Credit: Wall Street Journal[/caption] This month we want to continue to discuss and analyze various viewpoints of the very complicated and much nuanced issue of illegal immigration from the Northern Triangle (Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala) to the US....

03 March, 2021 /

By: Phil Waldron As of this writing, more than 9,000 immigrants have just forced their way through the southern border of Guatemala headed towards the US southern border. They are making comments on camera to Newscasters that, “they have heard that President Joe Biden will...

07 February, 2021 /

As many of you know, Mission UpReach has received generous donations specifically for hurricane relief.  Most of what has been spent up to now has been on much needed food supplies.  In one area, where the church in Corquin successfully delivered relief, the people were...

07 January, 2021 /

By: Jon Stacy “In the midst of a very severe trial, their overflowing joy and their extreme poverty welled up in rich generosity.” -2 Corinthians 8:2 This verse came alive for the Iglesia de Cristo en Barrio Belén when COVID-19 brought the Honduran economy to a screeching...

01 July, 2020 /
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