TAN Mission Report January 2026 – Honduras Report

Our mission to the Central American country of Honduras was packed with a wide variety of ministry opportunities: two pastors’ conferences, a meeting with a fellowship of local missionaries, Sunday and midweek services in the local churches, a missions-emphasis meeting in a local church, a women’s conference, and evangelistic outreaches in a hospital, a prison, and a public park.

The Sunday morning service at the first church on our itinerary was a Foursquare Gospel church, the denomination founded by the early-twentieth-century female evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.  The denomination is presently celebrating their fiftieth anniversary of their presence in the country of Honduras, and the people were delighted when we told them that our association with the denomination also traces back to approximately fifty years.  We shared our stories of having our first date at a fellowship dinner in a Foursquare church, being married by the pastor of the church, and visiting Angelus Temple (the church that Aimee founded in Los Angeles), having a tour of her home, and meeting her son on our honeymoon.  Peggy ministered on unforgiveness – focusing both on the need to forgive those who had offended us and the need to be healed from the heartbreak of those offenses.  At the altar call as the service ended, almost everyone in the congregation came forward for prayer.

That evening, we were the guest speakers at a missions meeting for the local Church of God congregation.  The pastor had announced that the emphasis of the program was “Cry out, Commit, and Dedicate” – giving us an excellent platform to talk about three levels of missions involvement: prayer, giving, and going.  Delron shared personal stories of how important each of those levels of involvement really are and concluded with an emphasis on Acts 1:8, Ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth – focusing on the importance of having the Holy Spirit’s direction and anointing on our prayers, gifts, and going for effective missions ministry.

The following day, we had scheduled a lunch and short time of fellowship with the local missionaries.  As we spent time together sharing important connections about our ministry partners such as Faith Comes by Hearing and Project C.U.R.E. which could serve as valuable resources for the missionaries and praying for the son of one couple who is an associate of the recently assassinated evangelical spokesman Charlie Kirk, the meeting turned into an all-day event that lasted through dinner as well as lunch.

The next day found us in a neighboring town for prison ministry.  The majority of the two hundred and fifty inmates showed up for the service even though it meant giving up their free time for the afternoon.  Everyone was very attentive as Peggy shared some of her testimony and ministered on knowing the Lord.  At the end of the meeting, she gave an altar call and invited those who wanted to surrender their lives to the Lord to raise their hands.  Approximately twenty men boldly lifted their hands – a sign of genuine sincerity in that it opened them to being bullied by other inmates.  That evening we were back at the church where we had spoken at the missions meeting.  This time, Delron spoke in their regular midweek service, ministering from the story of David’s selection as the next king in Israel when God directed the prophet Samuel to stop looking at the outward appearance because God searches the heart.  After examining many traits that could be identified in the life of David, Delron came with back the same question after each entry on the list, “When God examines your heart, does He see this quality in you?

The next day was an especially fun day as we spent time evangelizing in the central park of the city.  Since La Esperanza is a typical Central American city, the Catholic church, the municipal buildings, and an adjoining plaza dominate the center of the town.  We went to the park just as students were getting out of class at the school which also borders the plaza.  The students were especially enjoying this particular day because it was their final day of the term, and they were beginning their winter break.  Many of the young men were engaging in an ad hoc soccer game and small clusters of young ladies were gathered to chat.  As we approached them and offered them gospel literature, the kids were happy to receive the materials but even more enthusiastic about trying out their English skills by speaking with the gringo strangers.  Using broken Spanish on our end and broken English on theirs, we were able to establish a rapport, share a few laughs, and spread the gospel.  A couple of the students even tried to pay us for the booklets.  Since we were to minister that night at a church we had never visited before, we decided to drive out to locate it during the daylight so we wouldn’t get lost trying to find it after dark.  It tuned out that the directions we had were not correct and we found ourselves in an unfamiliar part of town on a very rough road that was taking down a dangerously steep hill.  Feeling that we were certainly lost, we stopped and asked a man that we saw standing outside a nearby house.  When we asked if he knew if there was a church in the neighborhood, we were surprised when he responded that he was the pastor.  He then showed us where we had taken a wrong turn and actually walked us over to see the building.  A couple hours later, we came back, and Delron again shared the story of David’s selection and challenged the people to examine their own hearts to see what God finds inside of them.

The next day was designated for an outreach in the local hospital.  We began with a food outreach in which we distributed baleadas (a popular Honduran fast-food – a wheat flour tortilla filled with fried beans and cheese), juice boxes, and gospel tracts to about a hundred patients, family members, security personal, and workers who were waiting outside the facility.  Then we went into the hospital and visited the pediatric and surgical wards where we had conversations and prayers with the patients and their family members who were caring for them and gave them gospel booklets to read while they were confined in the hospital.  One particularly powerful encounter was with the lady that the local missionaries had met on a recent visit to the hospital.  On this visit, she was accompanying her mother, but on the pervious visit she was with her thirteen-year-old daughter who had been part of an internet group that had been dared to drink poison.  Of the four girls who had taken up the dare, the other three died.  This girl was miraculous spared when her mother prayed over her.  Even though they lived a three-hour journey from the hospital, she survived the trip.  When the doctors examined her, they said that her lungs were completely destroyed and did not expect that she would live.  As the mother continued to read biblical passages over her, the girl surprisingly revived and said that she saw Jesus standing next to her praying mother.  The missionaries joined the mother in believing for a full restoration and shared with a believing nurse in the hospital to exert her spiritual authority over the girl, insisting that she get up and respond in faith to the proclamation that she had been healed.  We were all thrilled to hear the report from the mother that the girl was now perfectly well and happy.

That evening, Peggy spoke at the women’s fellowship at one of the churches where we had ministered the previous Sunday.  However, one of the most significant moments of the evening was when a gentleman who had brought his wife to the meeting asked for prayer because of severe pain in his hip.  After prayer, he said that the pain was totally gone, and he was able to move his leg freely.

The main objective of this mission to Honduras was to hold pastors’ conferences in two different cities.  The attendance at the first conference was a bit lower than we had anticipated because recent heavy rains had washed out the road between the conference center and one of the communities where a number of the pastors live.  On the morning of the conference, another major road was blocked because of a bus accident, prohibiting pastors from another area from being able to come.  However, the pastors and leaders who were able to attend said that the teachings on biblical leadership principles were very timely and encouraging.

The following day, we traveled to the second venue and repeated the same teachings for the pastors in that area.  Again, the pastors and leaders were excited over the teachings and said that they had been encouraged and inspired to take their ministries to a new level.

We concluded our time in Honduras by ministering in two different churches for their Sunday services with Peggy speaking in the morning on getting over offenses and Delron ministering in the evening on grace, the theme that the church was focusing on for the month.  His analogy of grace as a seatbelt was enlightening as he explained that grace does not free us to sin but frees us from sin – explaining that God loves us even if we don’t wear our seatbelts but loves us enough to expect us to use them as a protection from potential injury or death.