The Honduras Agape Foundation
Our goal is to manifest the love of Jesus Christ to the people of Honduras by providing medical and health care and education, resources to construct homes and care for the children and other support for the community of believers.
Background:
In late 1998, Hurricane Mitch devastated Honduras and other parts of Central America. In early 1999, South Aiken Presbyterian Church in Aiken, SC, began a foreign mission ministry to Quimistan, Honduras. The first mission team went to assist in the rebuilding of homes that were destroyed by the hurricane. Since then other church congregations have joined the effort and established "Sister Church" relationships with the Agape Church in Quimistan, Honduras. The Agape Church is led by Pastor Rene' Jerezano. In an effort to support this community, mission teams have built a well and water tower to provide clean drinking water. Teams have also constructed a medical clinic for utilization by short-term mission teams and local physicians who provide medical treatment. Each year missionary teams build cement block homes. This effort has provided twenty two new homes for needy families. Four classrooms have been built to support a childrens program provided by the Agape Church. The construction of a kitchen.
Since the beginning in 1999, these mission efforts have grown into an collaboration that includes various
churches and civic groups throughout the Southeastern United States and Canada. Rapid growth and participation
by diverse organizations necessitated the establishment of a separate non-profit foundation to manage the future
work. In January of 2003, The South Carolina Project Agape Foundation was formed.
The foundation currently has members from throughout the US and Canada. In 2007, the Board of Directors
decided to change the name of our foundation. In order to reflect the growth of our organization, the SC
Project Agape Foundation has been renamed the Honduras Agape Foundation.
The Honduras Agape Foundation is a 501-3c non-profit organization dedicated to sharing God's love and supporting
our sisters and brothers in Honduras.
Problems Being Addressed:
- Unclean drinking water
- Need for medical treatment and facility
- Sub-standard housing
- Educational needs
- Nutritional needs
- General support for the Agape Church family
Goals of the Project:
- Provide clean drinking water for the community
- Establish a means of dispersing the clean water to the local homes
- Complete the medical clinic
- Establish biannual medical mission trips to provide dental and medical care
- Build cement block homes for families in need
- Complete an industrial kitchen and classrooms to be used by the "Lily of the Valley" Feeding program (See attachment #1 for details of this program.)
- Build a storage building
- Establish shipping of support supplies from USA to Honduras
- Provide instruction ( i.e. basic hygiene, nutrition, gardening, sewing, carpentry)
- Support a full time missionary