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"We have been in more than 50 nations, restoring broken families and brokenhearted lives through the Word of God all around the world"
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come. " Matthew
24:14, NLT
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Honduras
Democratic republic in
Central America. It
was formerly known as Spanish Honduras to differentiate it from
British Honduras
(now
Belize).[1]
The country is bordered to the west by
Guatemala, to the
southwest by
El Salvador, to the
southeast by
Nicaragua, to the
south by the
Pacific Ocean at the
Gulf of Fonseca, and
to the north by the
Gulf of Honduras, a
large inlet of the
Caribbean Sea.
Honduras is among the 10 poorest
countries in the
Western Hemisphere
with GDP per capita at
US$3,100 per year
(2006).[7]
The economy has continued to grow slowly but the distribution of wealth
remains very polarized with average wages remaining very low.
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Honduras is part of
Mesoamerica. The
region is considered a
biodiversity hotspot
due to the numerous
plant and
animal species
that can be found there. Like other countries in the region, Honduras
contains vast biological resources. This 43,278 square mile
(112,092 km²) country hosts more than 6,000 species of
vascular plants,
of which 630 (described so far) are
Orchids; around
250 reptiles and amphibians, more than 700 bird species, and 110 mammal
species, half of them being bats. The
population of Honduras is 7.48 million. 90% of the population is Mestizo,
7% Amerindian, 2% black and 1% white.[14]
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Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was one of
the deadliest and most powerful
hurricanes on record
in the Atlantic basin, with maximum sustained winds of 180 mph
(290 km/h).
The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm, ninth hurricane, and third
major hurricane of the
1998 Atlantic hurricane season.
Due to its slow motion from
October 29 to
November 3, Hurricane
Mitch dropped historic amounts of rainfall in
Honduras and
Nicaragua, with
unofficial reports of up to 75 inches (1900 mm). Deaths due to catastrophic
flooding made it the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history; nearly
11,000 people were killed with over 8,000 left missing by the end of 1998.
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We were there providing food
and medical supplies
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