DESEO

At 16-years-old, with one best-friend murdered and another in jail on drug charges, Hector began to realize that he wouldn’t last long on his current path. Hector started drinking, skipping school, and smoking marijuana with his friends when he was only 13 years old. Hector’s...

02 May, 2019 /

As most of you know, the Honduran public school calendar year begins in February. Our team of nine kicked off the school year by visiting all 13 schools that we will be working in this year. The kids were overjoyed at the sight of our...

27 March, 2019 /

Since 2014, Mission UpReach has offered children starting at age 8, the opportunity to experience Bible camp. With the initial help and direction of Ty Ford, director of Camp Deer Run in East Texas, and a handful of trained Deer Run Staff, MUR has successfully...

11 February, 2019 /

by Dakota Nowell 2018 has been an incredible year of, “firsts” for our DESEO program. The DESEO team focuses on equipping the future generations of Honduran citizens with the knowledge to form healthy, responsible, God-fearing families. Years ago, we decided to attack this habit at its...

18 January, 2019 /

by Dakota Nowell It doesn’t take long to see firsthand the effects that poverty has on over 60% of Hondurans. Just minutes outside the airport you see street vendors using makeshift stands and carts to sell food to the employees. An hour down the road you...

08 November, 2018 /

by Phil Waldron As of this writing a caravan of migrants headed to the United States is crawling along highways in Mexico. Their stated intent is to enter the US illegally hoping that public sympathy will compel the US government to “let them in.” As an expatriate...

08 November, 2018 /

We sat down with the supervisor of our DESEO program to get her perspective on the impact they are having on the community.   Q: What is the impact of the DESEO program on the children in the schools you visit? We see the impact we are having...

15 October, 2018 /

You want to know something that Vladimir Lenin and Adolf Hitler had in common?  Well for starters, they both wanted to transform the societies and countries that they lived in.  And secondly, they both recognized that the youth organization that had begun in England known...

15 October, 2018 /

by Donna Waldron Based on the premise that the Lord’s church is the best catalyst for cultural and societal change, our DESEO public school outreach serves as a great tool to enhance the impact of the church on society. As we teach weekly stories from the...

15 June, 2018 /

DESEO is into full swing since the school year kicked off in February. We have all of our afternoon programs going (basketball, tutoring, and children’s choir). This month we were blessed to have the youth group from the Pine Tree Church of Christ in Longview,...

04 April, 2018 /
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