Pictured: The 2022 Mission Honduras group poses with the hundreds of pounds of clothes, toys, medicine and more they will be taking with them on their trip. Volunteers helped package the bags over the weekend.
On Wednesday, more than 30 Kuemper Catholic students and chaperones take off for Central America on the school’s third Mission Honduras service trip. K-8 Campus Minister, Mike McCarty, led trips to the Nueva Capital region in 2017 and 2019 in an ongoing effort to help the impoverished residents there. The 2021 trip was cancelled due to COVID, but the need has not lessened in the three years since they were last there.
Fourteen students and 19 adults will be participating in Mission Honduras directly. However, McCarty says it takes the support of many more people than the 33 who are going to make the trip a success.
The group will be spending 10 days in Honduras helping out however they can. Considering the outpouring of community support, many people want to keep track of what the group is doing each day they are there. McCarty says this is as simple as checking in each day on their online blog for photos and stories.
A link to that blog can be found included with this story on our website. Thanks to support from the community, they will be taking medications, clothing, toys and more to support residents of the Nueva Capital region, but McCarty says they are still plenty of ways for people to still support Mission Honduras.
McCarty says one of the most rewarding aspects of Mission Honduras for students is seeing the meals they package during the “Then Feed Just One” events Kuemper hosts in the years they do not make the trip.
Prior to leaving, the Mission Honduras group will be sent off by Kuemper students and staff during a private ceremony Tuesday.
_____
www.kuemper.org/TFJO
