By Sarah Capehart

Inspiring and Empowering Women to Find Their God-potential.

General Baptists are one organization. We are all one church. Women’s Ministries is one integral part of that organization. We strive daily to make sure that all activities support our mission statement and that we work alongside the women’s groups and churches to give them the tools to fulfill the Great Commission. We exist to support women’s groups and churches to make them aware of how they can support missions through various opportunities.

Alegria is one of those opportunities. Read how God has used Sarah Capehart to support Faith Home in Honduras.

Vicki Smith

In the beginning, well, maybe let’s not go back that far! Let’s start with 2020; hmm, perhaps that’s not the best start either. Ok – 1998. Randy and I had just become new parents, and at the same time, a new adventure was just getting started on a mountainside in Honduras. Brand new grandparents, David and Martha Kelle (my parents), raised support, learned Spanish, and prepared to open Faith Home. That was undoubtedly a year of faith and trusting God and taking Him at His faithful Word!

The following years were full of pictures of precious young ones (our two daughters and the beautiful new family of Faith Home) going back and forth in letters and being rejoiced over at dinner tables on those all so wonderful trips for my parents to visit us back in the US. I met Erika and her siblings and quiet little Elizabeth as my mom and dad would tell us about them. They spoke about their progress, antics, health scares, and how joy returned to their lives through the faithful support of General Baptists and Faith Home.

2004, Fort Branch GB church announced their team trip to Honduras. We began to make plans and preparations – all 4 of us spent our first week out of the country and saw firsthand the blessing of this little mountainside gem and how God worked mightily to restore lives and raise mighty men and women in this gorgeous country. Both of my daughters have traveled back to Faith Home with their grandparents during high school. Honduras is indeed woven in the fabric of the Capehart family.

By Jim Pratt

Since March of 2020, the Mission One program has, to a large extent, been in a holding pattern. While the needs at our international locations are more significant than ever, we have been unable to send mission teams due to travel restrictions. In the past 18 months, we have only sent two small teams; one to Honduras and one to Mexico.

During this waiting period, we have developed stateside mission trip opportunities. In the fall of 2020, a small team traveled to Gainesville, Missouri, to assist Real Life Gainesville Church with getting their facility ready for its grand opening. In July 2021, a student team of 20 individuals from Agee Fellowship Church in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, traveled to St. Louis, Missouri, to assist the Westside General Baptist Church in community outreach to homes damaged from storms in the area surrounding the church. The team also helped at a local shelter.

Again, we are gearing up to offer mission teams, interns, and short-term missionaries to serve in Guam, Honduras, Mexico, India, Jamaica, the Philippines, Saipan, and West Africa. In addition, we will offer multi-cultural opportunities stateside and opportunities to be involved in disaster response at various locations.

We are planning to have a full schedule of teams in 2022. As early as January 2022, we hope to send a medical mission team to West Africa to assist the Yeomans in community outreach. Plans are also in preparation to send teams to Honduras in February 2022.

Other medical mission teams, construction, servant evangelism, and leadership development teams will be scheduled for our international locations. We are also planning stateside teams for 2022.