by Lisa Steele, FLM Executive Director

En Español

We welcomed a record-setting 104 students to our Por Los Niños Christian School this month to begin the 2024 school year, along with three new teachers and a new Head of School. We are thankful for the opportunity to not only teach these children academically but also to pour into them spiritually. Each month, their parents attend our Parents School, where we offer tools and resources for parenting and academics. We also pray with these families as we all work together to provide a better future for their children.

Five years ago we were a first through sixth grade school. We began in 2001 to serve the children who lived on our campus. Today, we have grown to offer Pre-K Montessori through ninth grade. We reach out to our community and invite them to learn with us. Our Montessori Pre-K and Kindergarten has a waiting list. Our school buildings are full, but so are our hearts. As Proverbs 24:5 says, “Wisdom brings strength, and knowledge gives power.” We are equipping the next generation to live a better life. We are equipping parents with ways to keep their family together in a healthy and safe way. We are telling and showing God’s love and care to these students and their families.

by Lisa Steele, FLM Executive Director

En Español

The New Year brings a time of reflection with the hope for positive change. As Christians, this thought goes beyond a resolution to eat better, exercise more, start a new hobby, or even read our Bible daily. Those are all excellent aspirations, but often they are easily broken. What does not get broken are the words from the Lord in Revelation 21:5: “Look, I am making everything new…these words are faithful and true.”

While we live between creation and eternity, we wait expectantly for this newness of life where all tears are wiped away. We walk together in this journey. One day, death will be no more: grief, crying, and pain will be no more because the previous things have passed away” (Revelation 21:4). While we wait, we live with this end in mind. And we fulfill our purpose on Earth in God’s work.

We will never be able to alleviate all pain, suffering, and poverty in this world. We will not be able to transform and restore every life in Honduras. But we can touch as many lives as possible while we are here and offer them hope for this life and the next.

When we preserve a family, teach a child about God’s lovingkindness, place an abandoned child into a Christian home, offer education, give a child a safe place to live, or help children overcome the trauma in their life, we give them a newness of life based on the love of God.

When discussing the needs of the Catacamas community recently, an FLM staff member in Honduras said she does not like it when we refer to “the vulnerable children and families” we serve because everyone in Honduras is vulnerable. This thought has stuck with me as I think of the year ahead and how God will use Family Life Missions to bless and honor those we serve.

The needs are many. But we are assured that all things will be made new in His time. Until then, we will continue to serve His people and offer them hope, health, and security, with the church (His people) leading the way.

We invite you to join us on this journey.

by Lisa Steele, FLM Executive Director

En Español

We served a record number of 102 children this year at Family Life Missions. And these are not just numbers—these are lives that have been transformed because of our many supporters. Because of your prayers, donations, and volunteer hours, we can provide safe and secure homes, parenting workshops, a Christian bilingual school, foster care and adoption of vulnerable children, trauma training for our staff and other organizations, and build dreams!

Each face you see is a life that has been changed as we reach out to the community and within our campus. Your generous donations allow us to provide all of the above services and a holistic care center that brings together children and families' spiritual, physical, academic, social, and emotional needs in our programs.

As 2023 draws to an end, we are thankful for the 30 years of service we have provided to the community of Catacamas. Help us finish well with a year-end gift. Our immediate needs include seven laptop computers for our school, a new roof on the Holistic Care Center, and providing ongoing care to children in our Foster Care program.

What a blessing it is to serve the vulnerable children and families of Catacamas, Honduras. Our staff is dedicated to providing the community with hope, health, and stability. Thank you for remembering these precious children as you celebrate Christmas with family and friends.   

Merry Christmas ~ Feliz Navidad!

by Kerin Acosta, FLM Psychologist

En Español

In celebration of our 30th anniversary, Family Life Missions expresses its sincere gratitude to God for allowing us to serve the children and families of Honduras through the gospel, bringing faith, hope, and the good news of Salvation. We feel privileged with this great commission. In addition, we want to thank the institutions and organizations that have accompanied us throughout this journey and our donors, collaborators, families, and churches that have come together to help children and vulnerable families who today are being restored with God's love. 

Gratitude is a positive feeling of esteem and recognition born in the soul; this feeling arises when we receive a service or favor we wish to reciprocate. Everyone can experience it because we have all received something good at some point in our lives.