Our fall 2009 trip to Central America is scheduled for September 26 - October 3 and registration is now officially open! As always, we want a broad spectrum of experience and fields, so consider if you might be able to join us or help support someone else you know who would like to go.
For more information, see Getting Involved.
Hope to see you there!
February 28 to March 15, 2009
We have just returned from another great trip to Honduras. This time, just Jim and Barb Hermanson, and Charly and I went. We didn’t try to get a team together since we were trying some new things and Charly and I were busy writing a book titled, ‘Values and Principles that Change the World.’
New Year’s Greetings to All of You!
We called 2008 The Year of Expansion for Professionals to the World, as well as for Ministerio Renuevo in Honduras. The year has met our expectations and then some.
Here is a summary of what we did last year:
| Jan 11-19 | Honduran student trip to Quetzaltenango, Guatemala + talks at university |
| Feb 2 | Thank you party at our house for PTTW volunteers |
| Feb 21 | Leadership Conference for students in San Pedro Sula (SPS), Honduras |
| Feb 25-27 | Jim Hermanson, John Potts talks in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala Barb Hermanson, Charly Potts talks to High School teachers in SPS |
| Mar 3-7 | Team of 6 from New Life taught at UNAH in Tegucigalpa, Honduras |
| May 11-16 | John Potts directed leaders meeting in San Pedro Sula |
| July 15 | Received negative letter from director of university in Quetzaltenango |
| Aug 7 | Gerson Ruiz and John Potts were interviewed on AM91, KPOF |
| Sep 25 | Taught leadership conference for students at UNAH in Tegucigalpa |
| Sep 29-Oct 2 | Taught conferences to professors and students at UNAH in Tegucigalpa |
| Oct 3 | Taught professors at national university in Comayagua, Honduras |
| Oct 6-10 | Team of 10 from New Life and City Pres taught classes in SPS |
| Oct 10 | Barb taught at bi-lingual school Jim and John taught Values conference to professors in SPS |
In all, 10 different professionals gave talks to 4914 students and professors at 6 different universities.
Paul Stuckenbruck, who is trained as a journalist and was on our October trip to Honduras, has posted a great online slideshow. Don’t miss the detailed captions narrating his impressions and experience.
A lot has happened since our last newsletter. We had intended to spend one week in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala and two weeks in Honduras with the first two weeks devoted to teaching values to professors. However, we were told not to come to the university in Quetzaltenango because they did not want us to teach values “based on capitalism and religion.” They see our values as helping the rich at the expense of the poor. This is far from accurate but after 37 years of civil war in Guatemala I can understand their reluctance. This was a little discouraging but the two weeks we spent in Honduras more than made up for it.
