By Latin America Area Director John Gilbert

HONDURAS – Cristo Salva has suspended all future mission trips. The COVID situation and extreme violence make it unsafe to travel. Cristo Salva’s U.S. leadership continues to be in touch with Ledy Marco’s family and Enrique (leader in Honduras) to assess the situation in Honduras. Enrique continues to minister in three isolated mountain villages near San Marcos. Pastor Ray Marco also continues to meets with Enrique weekly for online discipleship training.

The schools in Honduras are still closed. Cristo Salva is looking at making some changes once schools reopen. They are considering changing the scholarship program to be school focused (with trusted teachers) to ensure that resources go only to students who are present for class. Verifying that the scholarship recipients are actually attending classes has always been a difficult task. This problem has only worsened with the increased violence and COVID.

Leadership is also considering re-allocating some of the feeding program resources to areas that seem to have a greater need, particularly in the rural areas. Some of the current feeding programs will continue, however, Cristo Salva wants to complete an evaluation of the entire program before changes are made.