The 1814 Project: initial trip

I leave for Honduras next week to begin this amazing journey of partnering with a small community in Honduras to help bring about community transformation.
The1814Project blog is here.

Here is the purpose and agenda for this trip:

Meeting with the Surveyors:
research teams have been going to homes and asking a lot of questions and gathering data in San Jeronimo, Honduras. Because this is the first time that we are doing this particular program we want to see what their feed back is about the things they found while doing the survey in the community. It is going to help us improve our skills and methods.

Luncheon with the Stakeholders:
We will meet with influential leaders/people (i.e. Mayor, business men, school directors, etc) in the community to find out how we can best serve them. we want to build a coalition with the community to show them that together we can make a difference.

Real Life Collection:
To get a better feel for the community and what their needs are but also so that your church can feel like they are connecting with this community even when they haven't been there yet, we want to collect bios/needs/pictures from about 50 different people in the community. People who have influence (teachers, policemen, etc). This is a time we simply meet a lot of people personally and begin to build a relationship with the community.

Partnership Presentation/Ceremony:
This is going to be a time when the vision is cast to the pastor's leadership. Book of Hope leadership will share a little bit, I will share a 10 minute message/vision/story that night as well. We will then take time to read and have parties sign and will frame the commitment for the local pastor who serves as the liaison.

Planning Breakfast:
We will begin to organize and target a few different areas we want to see change in the next few years. This will be a major planning time.

This is a huge two days on the ground in Honduras. Every single meeting and vision casting opportunity will be important. Follow the blog to keep up with all the updates.