Thank you for continuing to give to the missions work at Times Square Church. Because of your generosity and faithful offerings, we are able to provide emergency disaster relief when it’s needed most.
Just recently, our feeding program partners in Honduras, who run the only school for deaf kids in their country, faced a devastating tragedy. When Hurricane Eta passed through the already impoverished areas of San Pedro Sula, it left a crippling trail of destruction. Thousands were trapped for days without food or water, and the death toll is still uncertain. Some of our ChildCry program kids, who are deaf or hearing impaired and already depend on the school for their daily meals, lost their homes and what little they had in them.
Maria, a single mom, said, “If we hadn’t gotten out in time, we all would have died.” She had to literally run with her two kids and abandon her home and everything in it when the floodwaters reached waist-high in the middle of the night. When they returned to see their home, they were left in tears because everything was buried in mud.
Maria’s story is just one of thousands in Honduras. These families barely had one meal per day before the pandemic. During the pandemic, their suffering intensified under severe lockdown restrictions. Now, they’ve lost everything.
We are grateful that we were able to respond immediately with funds to help families with housing, clothes, beds, food, and appliances, giving them a head start in their long journey of rebuilding amidst a pandemic, and demonstrating that their brothers and sisters from Times Square Church care.
