Let me introduce two missionary families working with Honduras100: Larry and Sherry Walker who have been with this project since 2005 and Brad and Shelly Foltz joined the team in August 2009.
Larry and Sherry Walker have been missionaries for 29 years. The Walkers have served in Kenya East Africa, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and most recently in Honduras. In 2005, the Walkers received an invitation to help build some 100 churches in Honduras. Already having some experience with an African Tabernacle, the Walkers introduced this system to Honduras which seemed a perfect fit for the smaller towns where the facilities were to be built. The vision to build these 100 churches was soon to be called Project Honduras100. Larry and Sherry retired August 31st, 2010 after participating in the building of 64 of the 100 tabernacles but will continue involvement maintaining the Honduras100 website.
Note: Brad and Shelly Foltz will be returning to their home in West Virginia in June 2011 for a period of itineration. This period is a time when they will be visiting family, friends, and churches raising funds to return to Honduras in 2012. If you are a Pastor, please consider having them for a service so that they might share what they have seen God do in Honduras and their future vision for their work in Honduras. Please pray for them.
Brad and Shelly Foltz from Martinsburg, West Virginia, now in charge of Honduras100, both grew up in the Church and together have felt a call to serve the Lord in a greater capacity by becoming missionaries to Central America. They have three daughters, Elizabeth (16), and twins, Rebecca and Christina (10) who also are learning the importance of spreading the message of Christ's love and salvation. Brad, an auto mechanic for sixteen years and Shelly, a stay-at-home mom have served as missionary associates in El Salvador where they gained experience working in Latino style construction and also hosting teams. The Foltz family is excited to be working with Honduras 100 as Appointed Missionaries and will be based out of the city of San Pedro Sula. Brad and Shelly firmly believe that together we can save the world, one building at a time.
Honduras100 is an ambitious project to build 100 steel tabernacles over the next few years. The General Council of the Honduran Assemblies of God planted over 100 churches throughout the countryside of Honduras in the year 2004 and have continued planting churches each year since. These new church plants currently have no facilities in which to worship. These new congregations often have services outside under trees, many times without protection from bad weather, or inside small dwellings with insufficient space. Project Honduras100 is designed to change these circumstances by providing a simple, relatively inexpensive, easily built structural steel frame that would allow a congregation to have a building to call their own.
A tabernacle is a standard size steel structure, 36' wide and 48' long. Concrete footings, structural steel frame, 26 gauge galvanized sheet metal roof, and concrete block walls are donated and constructed by a visiting team. The local church is then responsible for additional features that they can add as their financial circumstances allow.
You can see examples of our work in the "Previous Projects" section.
If you would like to have more information, please look over our website and contact Brad with any additional questions. If you are unable to bring a team, you may also support a church financially by donating the funds to purchase the building.
Thank you for considering this ministry. Please pray for the teams and the local pastors as they obey the Great Commission by reaching the ends of the Earth for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
