11-2011 Through the Roof Honduras

Dear Friends, Our time in Honduras has been fruitful and we thank you for your prayers! We were able to do custom wheelchair seating for almost 100 people. All received a Bible and the good news of salvation through a local pastor. We shared disability ministry in several churches. Our Board in Honduras met and we are bonded in unity to reach many more affected by disability by working together. We also had great fun and a birthday party for one of our team.

November 12, 2011

Dear Friends,
We are praising God the entire team arrived safely in Honduras together!

One shipment arrived from the Hope Haven warehouse

All 3 shipments have made it to our warehouse in Jesus de Otoro. The team is working hard to unload, clean and sort all of the equipment. The pastors are joining in prayer for many to be saved. We are also meeting with contacts for our spring outreach. Thank you for your continued prayers for safe travel, good health and that we will be open to all the Lord has for us to do.
In His service,
Paul and Margaret Matasic

Reach Out 11-11-11

Dear Friends,

Thank you for praying for our Reach Out team going to Honduras November 10-20-2011. Reach Out is the international program of Through the Roof Ministries a 501C3 non-for-profit integrated auxillary of the church. We serve in the Central America and Haiti.

With a miracle from the Lord our 3 shipments have just arrived in time in Honduras for the team! We have taken a step of faith by purchasing new wheelchairs for children custom made in Guatemala.
Each child needs a sponsorship of $200 to receive a wheelchair.

Lesly Yolani is just one of the children waiting for a wheelchair to give her mobility. 

You can see in the picture she received a "wheelchair" from another organization and how they have put it to use. Children need custom wheelchair seating. We send specialist that often take up to 8 hours to be sure we have just the right fit so the child can sit up, interact with the environment, go to church and school without having skin breakdown and deformity that a "chair on wheels" could cause.

Please pray for good health and safety for the team, for each person that will come to receive Jesus as Lord and Savior and for the much needed financial support to continue to make a difference for today and eternity!
In His service with you,
Paul and Margaret Matasic

Shipment Arrived in Honduras

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your prayers and support for our shipment to Honduras! After six months it has arrived in port and has been released. Armor of Hope was able to pick up an autoclave and several items needed for minor surgery at the clinic in El Sauce. The remaining mobility items are now Jesus de Otoro!!! The next shipment is scheduled to leave Orville, Ohio this month!  We are so grateful to CAMO and Wheels of Hope our partners in ministry in Honduras for assisting us to make the gift of mobility and hope a reality for our friends in need in Central America.

5-2011 Honduras

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your prayers for our Spring 2011 Honduras Mission trip. We were very encouraged by our Board meeting and all the Lord is doing in Otoro. Our wheelchair shipment did not make it, but we did have several wheelchairs in Honduras and were able to give mobility equipment in Omoa. We visited a new rehab center in Puerto Cortes and gave them new walkers and crutches. We look forward to partnering with them in the future. Our next team trip is scheduled for November 11 - 19.

Board Meeting In Otoro

Our Board met to plan for 2011 and to prepare government reports for A Traves del Techo (Through the Roof).

Tulio, Teo, Margaret, Salatiel, Erica, Bernice, Lilliam

(not in photo Pastor Noe)

Wood for Teo

We stopped by and visited Teo's house and his wife and son Freddy. Teo is our wheelchair mechanic in Otoro.

We stopped by and visted Teo's new casa and wood for their stove was being delivered.

Teo's son Freddy

Teo Stove

Clinic in El Sauce

We visited Laura and Armor of Hope Mission in El Sauce where they are building a new medical clinic in this tiny rural mountain town.

Outside clinic before final stucco on.

Inside clinic

Apartment next to clinic

Covering mud blocks before rain comes

New Friends in Otoro

We arrived at the therapy center in Otoro and found we have a new guard dog and a dozen eggs under the pila, which is the outside sink.

Honduras shipping

Dear Friends,
Thank you for your prayers. We have arrived safely in Honduras. Today we met with the US Military in Honduras to arrange shipping through the Ohio base to Honduras in the furure. It is highly unusual to obtain a face to face meeting this quickly. They said typically you need a time for military clearance.
However...we serve a MIGHTY God!