Trinity
  Episcopal
  Church
    Since 1746

Statement of Purpose

To welcome and encourage
all in our journey
with Christ

To provide a loving,
active environment
for Christian worship,
learning and service

To utilize our Episcopal
heritage and our unique
gifts, resources and blessings
as a witness in the
community.

Trinity Church Missions to Honduras

Since 2003, Trinity has sent an adult mission group once a year to work in Honduras, the 2nd poorest country in the western hemisphere.  In 2006 and 2008 we also sent a youth mission group.  We plan to send another youth group in summer 2011, while continuing the annual winter trip for adults.

We are working under the auspices of the Episcopal Diocese of Honduras, whose Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Lloyd Allen, has ambitious plans for building churches throughout Honduras.  To date we have assisted, financially and physically, in the building of the Church of the Holy Spirit (Iglesia de Espiritu Santo) in Santa Rita de Copan, the Mission Church of San Nicolas in El Quebracho, Copan, San Antonio, St. John the Evangelist and Santa Cruz.  

The Department of Copan, in the mountains adjoining Guatemala, is home to 36 small Episcopal congregations and is referred to, within the diocese, as the “Mayan Region”.  They share one priest, Fr. Arnoldo Mejia, and are, for the most part, isolated communities with lay leaders and little or no financial resources and no worship space.  In many cases the people walk for miles to attend worship service.  When a church is constructed, it quickly becomes not only a place of spiritual celebration, but a center for community activity, including educational and health programs and possibly micro-enterprises. 

In addition to church construction, the diocese has a non-profit agency called Angladiche which carries on home improvement projects in remote villages were many people die or are sickened by poor sanitation, smoke from unventilated indoor fires, contaminated water, insects and molds from thatched roofs and dirt floors. 

Our work has been mostly construction, and more construction.  It is hard work, of the most primitive kind.  It is pick and shovel, hand wired rebar, cement mixed on the ground and carried by the bucket, rocks passed person to person up or down steep slopes.  But it is work done with joy, with purpose, and in communion with our brothers and sisters in Christ.  Sometimes we are able to spend time doing simple craft and game activities with the children.  We seem to be the equivalent of the circus coming to town, there is so much enthusiasm for anything we offer.   We are now known and welcomed as part of these two communities and to worship with them has become the highlight of our trips.

What we give to this mission work is our time, our money, and our labor.  What we get from this mission work far surpasses the value of all that we give.  The people of Santa Rita and Quebracho do have one resource in abundance and that is a spiritual joy which they have generously shared with us.

This is what we are called to do by the Gospel.  The need is great, in Honduras and all over the world, including here in our own country. The world is both big and small, local and far away.  We are called to serve in the world. 

You can help us to pay for the materials we need by purchasing the organic shade-grown coffee that we bring back from Honduras. It is available year round and is $10.00 per pound.

You can also help by coming to our monthly Spaghetti Suppers on the first Tuesday of the month September - June. These feature a delicious meal for $5.00 per person.

To contribute to our Trinity Church Honduras Misssion, please send a check to Trinity Church, P. O. Box 208, Staunton, Virginia 24402. Please write "Honduras Mission" on the memo line. To get involved, contact us.