Letters from the Field – The Slow, Holy Work of Discipleship || Alishia Weeks
Letters from the Field – The Slow, Holy Work of Discipleship || Alishia Weeks Dear Sparrow Family, One of the greatest gifts of long-term mission work is getting to witness not just beginnings, but becoming. On Monday, February 2, something deeply meaningful happened at Sparrow Academy. Two of our former students, young women who first […]
Letters from the Field – The Unlikely Story of Sparrow Academy || Justin Ross
Letters from the Field – The Unlikely Story of Sparrow Academy || Justin Ross Dear Friends, We recently celebrated another graduation at Sparrow Academy, and again I watched (online from Thailand) these students, future college freshmen, professionals, leaders, and world-changers graduate with hope written all over their faces. At Sparrow Missions, we work to see […]
Letters from the Field – Meeting Cristian Lopez || Justin Ross
Letters from the Field – Meeting Cristian Lopez || Justin Ross Dear Friends and Supporters, In late 2009, Ashley and I began serving in a small Honduran community in inner-city San Pedro Sula. Back then, Sparrow Missions was just a dream taking shape. We were just two people following God’s call, joined by short-term teams […]
One Body
Mount Olivet, for a week here in Honduras. It is always a special time for Dean as he gets to serve alongside both his immediate and church family. Amazing things happened that week as we saw my new office get built, new sewing skills developed, and new relationships developed that will last a lifetime. I […]
Sparrow Academy: Year 3
I Hope everyone is doing great and that this 2018 has brought new beginnings and opportunities to grow and seek The Lord in new and exciting ways. As you all know, another Sparrow Academy school year about to start and lots of new and exiting things are happening here at the Academy. This is our […]
Principal for the Day
On occasion our Sparrow Academy director Elena Faulkner will need to be out of the office at the Academy and I get to fill in as the “Principal for the day”. As I type this I can hear a collective laugh of all of the teachers who sent me to “the office” over the years. […]
A call to love, not to judge
As we are getting reading to wrap up the school year and getting close to Thanksgiving, we had our own little celebration at the Sparrow Academy. This year was a little different; last year all the kids, staff and some extra visitors sat together in one big table and ate chicken(Honduran style for Thanksgiving) and […]
God, the giver of wisdom
Since the start of the school year at the Sparrow Academy, we have had some kiddos who have really struggled with their studies and have fallen pretty far behind on their school work. Their degree of effort has definitely varied as some of them work hard, others work depending on how they feel, a few […]
Healing Is a Process
I know we have talked so many times how when the Sparrow Academy started, we were not by any means sure of what this meant but we knew that God was preparing us to expand our mission in the kid’s spiritual and educational walks. You have heard all the good stories about the kids’ development […]
A Year Later
Can you believe it?! Oh how things can change in just one year! Just one year ago, we decided to take a huge leap of faith. Just one year ago, we said our kids deserved better. Just one year ago, many of you know we took a huge step in our organization when we opened […]